Hex Fiend Alternatives

Hex Fiend is described as 'A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hex Fiend for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Xfce and BSD apps. The best Hex Fiend alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like Hex Fiend are ImHex, wxHexEditor, 010 Editor and Okteta.

Hex Fiend alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be File Comparison Tools or Code Editors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Hex Fiend.

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Hex Fiend

Free • Open Source

A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.

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HxD
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Free • Proprietary
Text Editor
Windows
53 HxD alternatives
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.
- - HxD is the most popular Windows alternative to Hex Fiend.
- - HxD is the most popular free alternative to Hex Fiend.
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HxD Features
1. PortableHxD can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in HxD without registration.
3. LightweightHxD consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. Ad-freeHxD doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Hex Editor
Disk editor
ImHex
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
24 ImHex alternatives
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
- - ImHex is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Hex Fiend.
- - ImHex is the most popular Open Source alternative to Hex Fiend.
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ImHex Features
1. PortableImHex can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. LightweightImHex consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Hex Editor
FOSS
Disassembler
GPL
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wxHexEditor
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
52 wxHexEditor alternatives
wxHexEditor is an open source cross-platform disk/sector/file hex editor written in C++ with a wxWidgets-based user interface.
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wxHexEditor Features
1. PortablewxHexEditor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hex Editor
Key binding
Hexadecimal
Visual Programming
ASCII Editor
Disk editor
Support for Unicode
Disassembler
Discontinued
The project seems no longer developed since 2020. Last version, 0.24, released in December 2017, can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub
010 Editor
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Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
46 010 Editor alternatives
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.
- - 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to Hex Fiend.
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010 Editor Features
Hex Editor
Disk editor
Okteta
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
40 Okteta alternatives
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.
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Okteta Features
Hex Editor
MadEdit
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
Windows
Linux
BSD
Xfce
137 MadEdit alternatives
MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.
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MadEdit Features
1. Syntax HighlightingMadEdit supports syntax highlighting for various programming and markup languages.
Hex Editor
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
WinHex
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Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
File Recovery Tool
Windows
41 WinHex alternatives
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.
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WinHex Features
Disk editor
ASCII Editor
Support for Unicode
Hex Editor
Kaitai Struct
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 Kaitai Struct alternatives
Kaitai Struct is a declarative language used for describe various binary data structures, laid out in files or in memory: i.e. binary file formats, network stream packet formats, etc.
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Kaitai Struct Features
Hex Editor
C++
Ruby
C-sharp
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Hex Editor Neo
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
42 Hex Editor Neo alternatives
Hex Editor Neo is a binary files editing software utility for Windows. It's rich and handy set of features will help all software and hardware developers working with ASCII, hex, decimal, float, double and binary data.
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Hex Editor Neo Features
1. PortableHex Editor Neo can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hex Editor
Bless
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
38 Bless alternatives
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.
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Bless Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsBless can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Hex Editor
Tabbed interface
Support for Multiple threads
Hex Workshop
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
42 Hex Workshop alternatives
The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Hex Workshop combines advanced binary editing and data interpretation with the ease and flexibility of a modern word processor.
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Hex Workshop Features
Hex Editor
XVI32
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
31 XVI32 alternatives
XVI32 is a freeware hex editor. XVI32 has the following main features.
- data inspector to view decoded numbers
- Has built-in script interpreter.
- Easily works with huge files.
- XVI32 allows to edit files up to 2 GB (enough virtual memory provided, of course) .
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XVI32 Features
1. PortableXVI32 can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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