HextEdit Alternatives

HextEdit is described as 'Fast and lightweight hex editor for viewing and editing binary data. Quickly edit virtually any file type at a low level in a simple and native app. It features fast incremental find, a byte inspector and generally fast performance as a native app' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to HextEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Xfce apps. The best HextEdit alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HextEdit are HxD, wxHexEditor, 010 Editor and Hex Fiend.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • ImHex is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to HextEdit.

    • ImHex is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to HextEdit.

    • ImHex is Free and Open SourceHextEdit is Free and Proprietary
    • ImHex is LightweightHextEdit is not according to our users
  2. 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
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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 HextEdit.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryHextEdit is Free and Proprietary
  5. 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
     
  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. REHex icon
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    A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

    28 REHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  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. HexEd.it icon
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    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
     
    • HexEd.it is the most popular Web-based alternative to HextEdit.

    • HexEd.it is Free and ProprietaryHextEdit is also Free and Proprietary
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