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 18 are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to wxHexEditor are wxMEdit, Catch22 HexEdit, BEYE (Binary EYE) and Blue Print Hex Editor.

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  1. ImHex icon

    ImHex

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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

    28 ImHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    ImHex screenshot 1
     

    • ImHex is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to wxHexEditor.

    • ImHex is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to wxHexEditor.

    • ImHex is Free and Open SourcewxHexEditor is also Free and Open Source
    • ImHex is LightweightwxHexEditor is not according to our users
  2. wxMEdit icon

    wxMEdit

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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    wxMEdit screenshot 1
     
  4. Catch22 HexEdit icon

    Catch22 HexEdit

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    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Catch22 HexEdit screenshot 1
     
  5. BEYE (Binary EYE) icon

    BEYE (Binary EYE)

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BlackBerry QNX
    • FreeDOS
    • FreeBSD
    • MS-DOS
    BEYE (Binary EYE) screenshot 1
     
  6. Blue Print Hex Editor icon

    Blue Print Hex Editor

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    NTFS structures parsing
     
  7. Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor icon

    Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Hecate icon

    Hecate

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Hecate screenshot 1
     
  10. REHex icon

    REHex

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    REHex screenshot 1
     
  11. BinEd icon

    BinEd

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
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    • BinEd is the most popular Android alternative to wxHexEditor.

    • BinEd is Free and Open SourcewxHexEditor is also Free and Open Source
    • BinEd is Privacy focusedwxHexEditor is not according to our users
  12. 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.

    40 Bless alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    The usual offset-hex-ascii view and the pattern highlight feature.
     
  13. Hexplorer icon

    Hexplorer

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    Open Source powerful and flexible Hex-Editor, with multiple colour-schemes that allow easy visual indication of byte-magnitude.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Search and replace text or hex sequences
     
  14. Hex Edit icon

    Hex Edit

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    HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Hex Edit screenshot 1
     
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