Hexplorer AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like Hexplorer

Hexplorer is described as 'Open Source powerful and flexible Hex-Editor, with multiple colour-schemes that allow easy visual indication of byte-magnitude' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hexplorer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Hexplorer alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like Hexplorer are wxHexEditor, 010 Editor, Hex Fiend 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 Hexplorer.

    • HxD is the most popular free alternative to Hexplorer.

    • HxD is Free and ProprietaryHexplorer is Free and Open Source
    • HxD is LightweightHexplorer is not according to our users
  2. 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
     
    • wxHexEditor is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Hexplorer.

    • wxHexEditor is the most popular Open Source alternative to Hexplorer.

    • wxHexEditor is Free and Open SourceHexplorer is also Free and Open Source
  3. 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
     
    • 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to Hexplorer.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryHexplorer is Free and Open Source
  4. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  6. WinHex icon
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    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
     
  7. RJ TextEd icon
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    RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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
     
  9. MadEdit icon
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    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
     
  10. Catch22 HexEdit icon
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    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.

    45 Catch22 HexEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. MiTeC HexEdit icon
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    Hexadecimal file editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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