HxD Alternatives

HxD is described as 'Carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to HxD for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best HxD alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HxD are wxHexEditor, 010 Editor, wxMEdit and Hex Workshop.

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  1. iHex icon

    iHex

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    A fast and clever hex editor, checksum utility, file information viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Inside the hex editor
     
  2. Hexer icon

    Hexer

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    Hexer is an open-source hex editor for Windows featuring direct view of all kinds of data interpretations, and in-line data type annotation system with markers which is reusable across files.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. FileInsight icon

    FileInsight

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    McAfee FileInsight, developed by McAfee Labs, is an integrated tool environment for website and file analysis. Its many built-in editing and analysis features can be easily extended through simple Python-based plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. PilotEdit icon

    PilotEdit

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    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
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  7. XVI32 icon

    XVI32

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    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
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  9. HextEdit icon

    HextEdit

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    HextEdit is a fast and lightweight hex editor for viewing and editing binary data. Quickly edit virtually any file type at a low level in a simple and native app. It features fast incremental find, a byte inspector and generally fast performance as a native app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Hex Edit icon

    Hex Edit

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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
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  11. Bless icon

    Bless

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    Bless is a high quality, full featured hex editor. It is written in mono/Gtk# and its primary platform is GNU/Linux. However it should be able to run without problems on every platform that mono and Gtk# run on.

    39 Bless alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    The usual offset-hex-ascii view and the pattern highlight feature.
     
  12. Kaitai Struct icon

    Kaitai Struct

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    Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code in Java, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  13. DiskExplorer icon

    DiskExplorer

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    This is also a disk editor. It comes with a very clean and usable UI and offers comprehensive information about NTFS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    MFT
     
  14. Frhed icon

    Frhed

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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
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