HextEdit AlternativesHex Editors and other similar apps like HextEdit

Apps similar to HextEdit include ImHex, which is free and open source. Other options are HxD, Hex Fiend, wxHexEditor and 010 Editor. You're spoiled for choice with Hex Editors like HextEdit: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac and the web.

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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

    30 ImHex alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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.

    57 HxD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Hex Fiend icon
     18 likes

    A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.

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    • Mac
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  4. 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.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. 010 Editor icon
     29 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. 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.

    42 Okteta alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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  7. YuHex icon
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    Windows 11 hex editor with 100 interface language variants, 107 regional choices, and RTL layouts. Inspect binary structures, search data, and edit in your language.

    38 YuHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Bless icon
     18 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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9.  11 likes

    Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code in Java, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Hex Edit icon
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    HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).

    48 Hex Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  11. 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)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. 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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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