Active@ Disk Editor Alternatives

Active@ Disk Editor is described as 'A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Active@ Disk Editor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Active@ Disk Editor alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like Active@ Disk Editor are UltraEdit, wxHexEditor, 010 Editor and Okteta.

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  1. HxD icon
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    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.

    55 HxD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • HxD is the most popular Windows alternative to Active@ Disk Editor.

    • HxD is the most popular free alternative to Active@ Disk Editor.

    • HxD is Free and ProprietaryActive@ Disk Editor is also Free and Proprietary
    • HxD is LightweightActive@ Disk Editor is not according to our users
  2. UltraEdit icon
     161 likes

    UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    211 UltraEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • UltraEdit is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Active@ Disk Editor.

    • UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Active@ Disk Editor.

    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryActive@ Disk Editor is Free and Proprietary
  3. wxHexEditor icon
     43 likes

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

    54 wxHexEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • wxHexEditor is the most popular Open Source alternative to Active@ Disk Editor.

    • wxHexEditor is Free and Open SourceActive@ Disk Editor is Free and Proprietary
  4. 010 Editor icon
     29 likes

    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.

    48 010 Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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.

    40 Okteta alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
  6. DMDE icon
     12 likes

    DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.

    99 DMDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. PE Explorer icon
     33 likes

    PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.

    49 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Comments about PE Explorer as an Alternative to Active@ Disk Editor
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    PE Explorer is not a disk editor

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    • PE Explorer is Paid and ProprietaryActive@ Disk Editor is Free and Proprietary
  8. Ghex icon
     15 likes

    GHex - a hex editor for GNOME

    GHex allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii.

    Useful for debugging problems with object code or encodings.

    Also used by kids who cheat at computer games, by adding score or lives to saved games.

    25 Ghex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Bless icon
     17 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.

    39 Bless alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. BinEd icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

    • BinEd is Free and Open SourceActive@ Disk Editor is Free and Proprietary
    • BinEd is Privacy focusedActive@ Disk Editor is not according to our users
  11. WinHex icon
     18 likes

    WinHex is a 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.

    44 WinHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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