HxD AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like HxD

HxD is described as 'Carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to HxD for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best HxD alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HxD are wxHexEditor, 010 Editor, wxMEdit and Hex Workshop.

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  1. ImHex icon

    ImHex

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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

    28 ImHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Does all HxD is capable and more, however, it is worth noting that HxD is a minimal application, lightweight and all, and ImHex requires GPU acceleration... or some software rendering, but still, way heavier.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think ImHex is a great HxD alternative.

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

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

    • ImHex is Free and Open SourceHxD is Free and Proprietary
  2. wxHexEditor icon

    wxHexEditor

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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
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  4. 010 Editor icon

    010 Editor

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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
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    • 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to HxD.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryHxD is Free and Proprietary
  5. wxMEdit icon

    wxMEdit

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    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Hex Workshop icon

    Hex Workshop

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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
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    Comments about Hex Workshop as an Alternative to HxD
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    Hex workshop has the most extensive sets of tools for looking into hex files and editing them.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Hex Workshop is Paid and ProprietaryHxD is Free and Proprietary
  7. WinHex icon

    WinHex

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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
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  9. Hex Editor Neo icon

    Hex Editor Neo

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Okteta

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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.

    41 Okteta alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    Hex Fiend

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    A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. MiTeC HexEdit icon

    MiTeC HexEdit

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    Hexadecimal file editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. REHex icon

    REHex

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    A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  14. Free Hex Editor Neo icon

    Free Hex Editor Neo

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    Free Hex Editor Neo - Fastest Binary File Editing Software for Windows. Large Files Optimized Freeware Hex Editor

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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