Frhed Alternatives

Frhed is described as '(Free hex editor) is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially. String replacement, multi-language, and other features' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Frhed for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Frhed alternative is GNU Emacs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Frhed are ImHex, HxD, UltraEdit and wxMEdit.

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  1. GNU Emacs icon
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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    178 GNU Emacs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
     
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    Well, emacs can probably DO hex editing, it's not something I want to pick up because I need a hex editor

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    • Some users think GNU Emacs is a great Frhed alternative, some don't.

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to Frhed.

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Frhed.

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceFrhed is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is Customizable, Privacy focused and LightweightFrhed is not according to our users
  2. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. UltraEdit icon
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    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).

    209 UltraEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Frhed.

    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryFrhed is Free and Open Source
  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...

    85 wxMEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. 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.

    48 010 Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
  9. PE Explorer icon
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    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
     
  10. Bless icon
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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
     
  11. Ghex icon
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    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.

    26 Ghex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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