PE Explorer Alternatives

PE Explorer is described as 'The most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code' and is a Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to PE Explorer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best PE Explorer alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like PE Explorer are HxD, 010 Editor, Malcat and Explorer Suite.

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  1. pestudio icon
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    pestudio implements a rich set of features that is especially designed to retrieve every single detail of any executable file. Results are checked against the Microsoft specification. Additionally, the content of the file being analyzed is checked against several white and black...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. 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
     
  3. EXE Explorer icon
     7 likes

    It reads and displays executable file properties and structure. It is compatible with PE32 (Portable Executable), PE32+ (64bit), NE (Windows 3.x New Executable) and VxD (Windows 9x Virtual Device Driver) file types. .NET executables are supported too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. 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
     
  6. PE Tools icon
     2 likes

    This is a fully-functional utility for working with PE/PE +(64bit) files. Including: Editor PE of files, Task Viewer, Win32 PE files optimizer, detector of compiler/packer and many other things.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Restorator icon
     11 likes

    Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit windows resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE files and RES files).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. BinEd icon
     2 likes

    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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. GARbro icon
     2 likes

    A resource browser, archiver, and extractor specializing in game data archives. It handles uncommon file formats not supported by standard zip and rar utilities. A full list of supported formats can be found at https://morkt.github.io/GARbro/supported.html.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. FileAlyzer icon
     8 likes

    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. PPEE (puppy) icon
     2 likes

    Professional PE file Explorer for reversers, malware researchers and those who want to statically inspect PE files in more details.

    15 PPEE (puppy) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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