PilotEdit AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like PilotEdit

PilotEdit is described as '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' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to PilotEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best PilotEdit alternative is GNU Emacs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PilotEdit are Digler, HxD, UltraEdit and EmEditor.

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  1. GNU Emacs icon

    GNU Emacs

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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    181 GNU Emacs alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
     

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to PilotEdit.

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PilotEdit.

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourcePilotEdit is Freemium and Proprietary
    • GNU Emacs is Customizable, Privacy focused and LightweightPilotEdit is not according to our users
  2. Digler icon

    Digler

     25 likes

    Forensic disk analysis and file recovery solution supporting a wide range of disk image formats and raw devices, file system-agnostic recovery, metadata-independent scans, DFXML reporting, plugin extensibility, intuitive CLI, and integration for diverse forensic needs.

    50 Digler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Digler screenshot 1
     
  4. HxD icon

    HxD

     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

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    • Windows
    HxD screenshot 1
     
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    EmEditor

    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 v...

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  6. UltraEdit icon

    UltraEdit

     161 likes

    UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    211 UltraEdit alternatives

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    UltraEdit features an integrated FTP browser and supports syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages, with more always in the works. And with an integrated SSH/telnet client, scripting, custom tools, macros and Smart Templates, UltraEdit's ready for any coding session.
     

    • UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to PilotEdit.

    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryPilotEdit is Freemium and Proprietary
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    EmEditor

     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

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    • Windows
    EmEditor screenshot 1
     
  8. wxHexEditor icon

    wxHexEditor

     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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    wxHexEditor screenshot 1
     
  10. 010 Editor icon

    010 Editor

     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 screenshot 1
     
  11. Okteta icon

    Okteta

     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

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
    Okteta screenshot 1
     
  13. DMDE icon

    DMDE

     12 likes

    DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.

    99 DMDE alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    hard disk selection
     
  14. PE Explorer icon

    PE Explorer

     33 likes

    PE Explorer is 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.

    49 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PE Explorer screenshot 1
     
  15. 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.
     
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