Open Source wxHexEditor Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to wxHexEditor for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is ImHex. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to wxHexEditor and many of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to wxHexEditor are dz6, wxMEdit, Catch22 HexEdit and Bless.

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  1. ImHex icon

    ImHex

     36 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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
    ImHex screenshot 1
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  2. dz6 icon

    dz6

     9 likes

    Fast heavily Vim-inspired TUI hex editor.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
    • FreeBSD
    • BR flagBrazil
    dz6 screenshot 1
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  4. wxMEdit icon

    wxMEdit

     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
    • CN flagChina
    wxMEdit screenshot 1
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  5. Catch22 HexEdit icon

    Catch22 HexEdit

     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Catch22 HexEdit screenshot 1
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  6. Bless icon

    Bless

     18 likes

    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.

    41 Bless alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GR flagGreece
    • European Union flagEU
    The usual offset-hex-ascii view and the pattern highlight feature.
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  8. BinEd icon

    BinEd

     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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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU
    BinEd screenshot 1
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  9. B

    BEYE (Binary EYE)

     2 likes

    BEYE (Binary EYE) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

    30 BEYE (Binary EYE) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BlackBerry QNX
    • FreeDOS
    • FreeBSD
    • MS-DOS
    BEYE (Binary EYE) screenshot 1
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  10. Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor icon

    Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor

     Like

    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Hecate icon

    Hecate

     Like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
    Hecate screenshot 1
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  12. Blue Print Hex Editor icon

    Blue Print Hex Editor

     1 like

    Blue Print works on Windows and Linux platforms, and will soon support OSX and BSD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • CN flagChina
    NTFS structures parsing
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  13. hxed icon

    hxed

     2 likes

    A lightweight command-line hex viewer in C with focused colors, heatmaps, entropy, search, string mode, and clean pipe support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    hxed screenshot 1
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  14. REHex icon

    REHex

     1 like

    A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    REHex screenshot 1
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