Install uefitool with Homebrew Cask

Project links

• Homepage
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

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Project history

Development began in mid-2013. A major refactoring started in early 2015 to support newer UEFI features such as FFSv3 volumes and fixed image elements.

The project evolved into a suite: UEFITool provides the graphical viewer and editor, UEFIExtract recursively exports parsed structures, and UEFIFind searches image elements for byte patterns.

Adoption history

UEFITool emerged to fill the lack of cross-platform, open-source utilities for examining and modifying UEFI firmware images. Its engine also became the basis for the companion UEFIExtract and UEFIFind command-line tools.

How it is used

Users open a firmware image to inspect its tree structure, validate its integrity, search or extract components, and, where supported, manipulate image elements. Prebuilt binaries are available, while source builds use Qt with CMake or other supported build systems.

Why package nerds care

UEFITool gives firmware researchers and system tinkerers a portable graphical view of the nested structures inside vendor firmware. The companion command-line tools make the same parsing engine useful in extraction, search, reverse-engineering, and automated analysis workflows.

Timeline

• 2013: Project development began.
• 2015: A major parser and architecture refactoring began for newer UEFI features.
• 2023: The release line adopted Qt 6.5 and a newer hex-view component.
• 2026: Active alpha releases continued with parser, architecture, and GUID-database improvements.

Related projects

• UEFIExtract and UEFIFind share UEFITool's parsing engine.
• The official README identifies TianoCore FMMT, Fiano, CHIPSEC, uefi-firmware-parser, and CERT UEFI Parser as related or alternative firmware-analysis tools.

Sources

• https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool#readme
• https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases