HxD Alternatives for Linux

HxD is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to HxD and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to HxD are dz6, 010 Editor, wxHexEditor and wxMEdit.

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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

    29 ImHex alternatives

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  2. dz6 icon
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    Fast heavily Vim-inspired TUI hex editor.

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    • Rust
    • FreeBSD
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  3. 010 Editor icon
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    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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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

    57 wxHexEditor alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • BSD
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  5. wxMEdit icon
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    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    88 wxMEdit alternatives

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  6. Okteta icon
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    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.

    42 Okteta alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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  7. REHex icon
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    A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

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  8. 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.

    53 BinEd alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
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  9. Hexinator icon
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    The professional Hex Editor for Windows and Linux.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Hecate icon
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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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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  12. As the name implies, this is a hex editor. It aims to be a good general-purpose hex editor and to have a wide selection of features for analysing and annotating binary file formats.

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