JS-Confuser vs. JSDefender vs. ProGuard vs. VBScript Comparison Chart

JS-Confuser is a powerful, open source JavaScript obfuscation tool that transforms your source code into a highly unreadable form, deterring reverse engineering, tampering, and unauthorized reuse while preserving full functionality. It offers multiple obfuscation techniques, including variable renaming, control flow flattening, string concealing, and function obfuscation, along with locks such as domain-based or date-based execution constraints and integrity checks to detect runtime modifications. Designed for flexibility, it provides obfuscation presets, ranging from 10 to 21+ transformation layers, and also allows fully customizable configurations to suit performance and protection needs. The tool operates entirely in the browser for fast, private obfuscation workflows, and includes advanced tooling features such as a playground for interactive experimentation, customizable options via JavaScript, integrated code prettification, and debugging support.

ProGuard: Open Source Optimizer for Java and Kotlin. ProGuard is the most popular optimizer for Java bytecode. ProGuard also provides minimal protection against reverse engineering by obfuscating the names of classes, fields and methods. ProGuard reduces the download and startup time of Android applications and improves their performance on mobile devices. ProGuard obfuscates Java applications and pre-verifies the processed code for Java Micro Edition and for Java 6 and higher. ProGuard optimizes and obfuscates Java applications for cell phones, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and other constrained devices. ProGuard fully supports Java and Kotlin applications, enabling developers to take full advantage of these languages’ features without sacrificing performance or security. ProGuard is a command-line tool with an optional graphical user interface. ProGuard is fast: It processes small Android applications and entire runtime libraries in seconds.