iHex Alternatives

iHex is described as 'A fast and clever hex editor, checksum utility, file information viewer' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to iHex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Xfce apps. The best iHex alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iHex are HxD, EmEditor, wxHexEditor and 010 Editor.

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  1. ImHex icon
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    ImHex is a free, featureful Hex Editor with many tools often only found in paid products. It includes a custom built scripting language for highlighting and decoding binary data, a disassembler, extensive file analysis tools and much much more

    28 ImHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • ImHex is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to iHex.

    • ImHex is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to iHex.

    • ImHex is Free and Open SourceiHex is Free and Proprietary
  2. HxD icon
     136 likes

    HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.

    55 HxD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. EmEditor icon
     77 likes

    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.

    125 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. wxHexEditor icon
     43 likes

    Hex Editor. Support editing or comparing (diff) very large files up to 2^64 bytes. Cross-platform Linux, Mac OS, Windows.

    54 wxHexEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. 010 Editor icon
     29 likes

    010 Editor is a professional text/hex editor designed to edit any file, drive, or process on your machine. Using Binary Templates technology, 010 Editor allows a binary file to be parsed into a data structure that can be understood.

    48 010 Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to iHex.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryiHex is Free and Proprietary
  6. Okteta icon
     16 likes

    Okteta is a simple editor for the raw data of files. This type of program is also called hex editor or binary editor. The data is displayed in the traditional view with two columns: one with the numeric values and one with the assigned characters.

    40 Okteta alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
  7. Hex Fiend icon
     16 likes

    A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.

    40 Hex Fiend alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    iHex is actually based on this app. It may actually be the SAME app. Not sure, though.

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    • Hex Fiend is Free and Open SourceiHex is Free and Proprietary
  8. Bless icon
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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
     
  9. BinEd icon
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    BinEd is a hex editor tool, which allows to directly browse and edit content of any file or binary data.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
     
    • BinEd is the most popular Android alternative to iHex.

    • BinEd is Free and Open SourceiHex is Free and Proprietary
    • BinEd is Privacy focusediHex is not according to our users
  10. WinHex icon
     18 likes

    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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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
     
  12. Catch22 HexEdit icon
     10 likes

    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
     
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