You got a binary file and don't know its contents. Or some software creates binary files where you have a specification but don't want to decode them manually.
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WinHex Alternatives
WinHex is described as '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' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to WinHex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best WinHex alternative is Digler, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinHex are ImHex, HxD, 010 Editor and wxHexEditor.
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12 HexEd.it alternativesHexEd.it is a free hex editor for all modern operating systems. It uses web technology to enable online hexediting, directly in the browser. Analyse binary dumps and files, read, manipulate, write, import and export any data in this webapp.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Online
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.
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- Windows
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.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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.
Hiew (short for Hackers view) is a popular console hex editor for DOS and Windows written by Eugene Suslikov (sen). Amongst its feature set is its ability to view files in text, hex and disassembly mode.
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- Windows
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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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.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
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48 Hex Edit alternativesHexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Free
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The Hex Editor From Hell! Hecate is a terminal hex editor that, instead of putting the (ASCII) representation of bytes way out on the right side of the screen, it puts the interpreted values directly beneath the hex representation.
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