Free wxHexEditor AlternativesHex & Text Editors like wxHexEditor

The best free alternative to wxHexEditor is ImHex, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to wxHexEditor and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to wxHexEditor are HxD, dz6, Hex Fiend and Active@ Disk Editor.

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  1. ImHex icon
     37 likes

    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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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.

    57 HxD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. dz6 icon
     9 likes

    Fast heavily Vim-inspired TUI hex editor.

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    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. 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.

    42 Okteta alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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  6. wxMEdit icon
     27 likes

    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. 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.

    45 Catch22 HexEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. PilotEdit icon
     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. HextEdit icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. YuHex icon
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    YuHex is a simple binary editor for Windows. It provides the essential features needed to work with binary files, including editing, searching, and changing text encodings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. BinEd icon
     2 likes

    BinEd is a hex editor tool, which allows to directly browse and edit content of any file or binary data.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
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