Hex Edit Alternatives

Hex Edit is described as 'HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files)' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hex Edit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Hex Edit alternative is GNU Emacs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hex Edit are ImHex, HxD, UltraEdit and wxHexEditor.

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  1. WinHex icon
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    WinHex is a hexadecimal editor capable of opening disks, sectors, files (native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, UFS, CDFS, UDF) and physical memory (RAM). It can read, write and extract data for a further forensic analysis.

    44 WinHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. REHex icon
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    A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Frhed icon
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    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. FileAlyzer icon
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    FileAlyzer is a tool to analyze files, allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE).

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  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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