Free Hex Fiend Alternatives

The best free alternative to Hex Fiend is ImHex, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Hex Fiend and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Hex Fiend are HxD, wxHexEditor, Okteta and Bless.

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  1. 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

    28 ImHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    It's much more modern and has many features often just found in paid alternatives

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    • ImHex is Free and Open SourceHex Fiend is also Free and Open Source
  2. HxD icon
     136 likes

    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
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  7. REHex icon
     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Catch22 HexEdit icon
     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)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. XVI32 icon
     9 likes

    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) .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. HexEd.it icon
     3 likes

    HexEd.it is a free hex editor for all modern operating systems. It uses web technology to enable online hexediting, directly in the browser. Analyse binary dumps and files, read, manipulate, write, import and export any data in this webapp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. MadEdit icon
     14 likes

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
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