HxD AlternativesHex & Text Editors like HxD

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   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

   30 ImHex alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Hex Editor

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by Guest · Aug 14, 2024

   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.

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   • ImHex is Free and Open SourceHxD is Free and Proprietary
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   dz6

    9 likes

   Fast heavily Vim-inspired TUI hex editor.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Hex Editor

   Origin

   • Brazil

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Rust
   • FreeBSD

   • Brazil

   

   

   

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   010 Editor

    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

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Hex Editor

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • United States

   

   

   

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   wxHexEditor

    43 likes

   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 (GPL-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Hex Editor
   • Text Editor

   Origin

   • Türkiye

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   • Türkiye

   

   

   

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   Hex Fiend

    18 likes

   A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)

   Application type

   • Hex Editor

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

   

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   wxMEdit

    27 likes

   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 (GPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Origin

   • China

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   • China

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by unicorndreams · Mar 15, 2026

   It's not as smooth to use as HxD, but it natively works in Linux (antiX, a non-systemD distro). E.g., it doesn't copy hex strings, it's necessary to enable hex find/replace in the dialog, close it, then mark the string, and open the find/replace dialog again to be able to copy the hex string (HxD simply copies hex code if it's selected.) It's fast and worked fine with large files (tested with hundreds-MB-size files.)

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   • wxMEdit is Free and Open SourceHxD is Free and Proprietary
   • wxMEdit is a Text Editor HxD is a Hex Editor
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   Hex Workshop

    15 likes

   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.

   45 Hex Workshop alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Hex Editor

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • United States

   

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   Positive comment by Guest · Nov 25, 2016

   Hex workshop has the most extensive sets of tools for looking into hex files and editing them.

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   • Hex Workshop is Paid and ProprietaryHxD is Free and Proprietary
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    Okteta

     16 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Hex Editor
    • Text Editor

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft

    • Germany
    • EU

    

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    WinHex

     18 likes

    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.

    46 WinHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application typeApplication types

    • Text Editor
    • Hex Editor

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Germany
    • EU

    

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    Hex Editor Neo

     4 likes

    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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Hex Editor

    Origin

    • United Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • United Kingdom

    

    

    

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    Free Hex Editor Neo

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Hex Editor

    Origin

    • United Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • United Kingdom

    

    

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    REHex

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Hex Editor

    Origin

    • United Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    • United Kingdom

    

    

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