HexBrowser Alternatives
HexBrowser is described as 'tool that identifies file types. It does not care about the file extension, but opens each file to look for signatures so it can determine the exact type of a file'. There are six alternatives to HexBrowser for Windows, Linux, Online / Web-based, Mac and BSD. The best alternative is TrID. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try file or TrIDNet. Other great apps like HexBrowser are Toolsley File Identifier (Free), FileCHK (Free, Open Source) and JHOVE (Free, Open Source).
- Allows to detect file type by recognition of binary signatures. View 6 alternatives to TrIDNo screenshots yet
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- file is a standard Unix program for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file using magic numbers. View 6 alternatives to fileNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- TRIDNet is the GUI version of TrID, probably more practical to use than the CLI version, especially for those not very familiar with the command line prompt. View 6 alternatives to TrIDNet
Discontinued
TrIDNet v1.95 - 26/01/16. As from 2021 Feb it does work fine on Windows 10
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Identify files based on the libmagic database in your browser. HTML5/JS port of the "file" tool. No downloads, no installation and no uploads! View 6 alternatives to Toolsley File Identifier
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Identify and recover (as much as possible) data lost in CHK files. View 6 alternatives to FileCHKNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- JHOVE is a file format identification, validation and characterisation tool. It is implemented as a Java application and is usable on any Unix, Windows, or OS X platform with appropriate Java installation. View 6 alternatives to JHOVE