Hecate Alternatives

Hecate is described as 'The Hex Editor From Hell! Hecate is a terminal hex editor that, instead of putting the (ASCII) representation of bytes way out on the right side of the screen, it puts the interpreted values directly beneath the hex representation' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hecate for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Xfce apps. The best Hecate alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hecate are HxD, UltraEdit, wxHexEditor and 010 Editor.

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  1. Catch22 HexEdit icon
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    HexEdit is a hexadecimal file editor for Microsoft Windows. HexEdit allows the user to view and edit any type of file, no matter what format it is saved in.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. MiTeC HexEdit icon
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    Hexadecimal file editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Aquamacs Emacs icon
     18 likes

    An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. MadEdit icon
     14 likes

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  6. Hex Workshop icon
     15 likes

    The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Hex Workshop combines advanced binary editing and data interpretation with the ease and flexibility of a modern word processor.

    44 Hex Workshop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Hex Edit icon
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    HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).

    48 Hex Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Frhed icon
     12 likes

    Frhed(Free hex editor) is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially. String replacement, multi-language, and other features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  9. PilotEdit icon
     3 likes

    PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search and replace operations, HEX mode, column mode, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. XVI32 icon
     8 likes

    XVI32 is a freeware hex editor. XVI32 has the following main features.

    • data inspector to view decoded numbers
    • Has built-in script interpreter.
    • Easily works with huge files.
    • XVI32 allows to edit files up to 2 GB (enough virtual memory provided, of course) .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Hex Editor Neo is a binary files editing software utility for Windows. It's rich and handy set of features will help all software and hardware developers working with ASCII, hex, decimal, float, double and binary data.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. BEYE (Binary EYE) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BlackBerry QNX
    • FreeDOS
    • FreeBSD
    • MS-DOS
     
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