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

    19 Kaitai Struct alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Hex Workshop icon
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    The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Hex Workshop combines advanced binary editing and data interpretation with the ease and flexibility of a modern word processor.

    44 Hex Workshop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. 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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. PilotEdit icon
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    PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search and replace operations, HEX mode, column mode, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Frhed icon
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    Frhed(Free hex editor) is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially. String replacement, multi-language, and other features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  6. XVI32 icon
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    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
     
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    Hex Editor Neo is a binary files editing software utility for Windows. It's rich and handy set of features will help all software and hardware developers working with ASCII, hex, decimal, float, double and binary data.

    45 Hex Editor Neo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    BEYE (Binary EYE) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BlackBerry QNX
    • FreeDOS
    • FreeBSD
    • MS-DOS
     
  9. Synalyze It! icon
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    You got a binary file and don't know its contents. Or some software creates binary files where you have a specification but don't want to decode them manually.

    20 Synalyze It! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Hiew icon
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    Hiew (short for Hackers view) is a popular console hex editor for DOS and Windows written by Eugene Suslikov (sen). Amongst its feature set is its ability to view files in text, hex and disassembly mode.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Heraia icon
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    Lightweight HEX-Editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  12. Hexplorer icon
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    Open Source powerful and flexible Hex-Editor, with multiple colour-schemes that allow easy visual indication of byte-magnitude.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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