Open Source HxD Alternatives

The best open source alternative to HxD is ImHex. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to HxD and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to HxD are wxHexEditor, wxMEdit, Ghex and MadEdit.

HxD alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or File Comparison Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of HxD.

HxD

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Free • Proprietary
Text Editor

HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM),...

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ImHex
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Free • Open Source
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24 ImHex alternatives
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
- - ImHex is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to HxD.
- - ImHex is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to HxD.
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1. PortableImHex can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. LightweightImHex consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Hex Editor
FOSS
Disassembler
GPL
wxHexEditor
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Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
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BSD
52 wxHexEditor alternatives
wxHexEditor is an open source cross-platform disk/sector/file hex editor written in C++ with a wxWidgets-based user interface.
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wxHexEditor Features
1. PortablewxHexEditor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hex Editor
Key binding
Hexadecimal
Visual Programming
ASCII Editor
Disk editor
Support for Unicode
Disassembler
Discontinued
The project seems no longer developed since 2020. Last version, 0.24, released in December 2017, can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

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wxMEdit
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
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75 wxMEdit alternatives
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...
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wxMEdit Features
1. PortablewxMEdit can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hex Editor
Discontinued
Last GitHub commit on Aug 2019 and last release on Nov 2016.
Ghex
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Free • Open Source
Linux
26 Ghex alternatives
GHex - a hex editor for GNOME

GHex allows the user to load data from any file, view and edit it in either hex or ascii.

Useful for debugging problems with object code or encodings.

Also used by kids who cheat at computer games, by adding score or lives to saved games.
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Hex Editor
MadEdit
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
Windows
Linux
BSD
Xfce
137 MadEdit alternatives
MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.
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MadEdit Features
1. Syntax HighlightingMadEdit supports syntax highlighting for various programming and markup languages.
Hex Editor
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Okteta
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40 Okteta alternatives
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.
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Hex Editor
Bless
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
38 Bless alternatives
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.
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Bless Features
1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsBless can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Hex Editor
Tabbed interface
Support for Multiple threads
Kaitai Struct
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17 Kaitai Struct alternatives
Kaitai Struct is a declarative language used for describe various binary data structures, laid out in files or in memory: i.e. binary file formats, network stream packet formats, etc.
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Hex Editor
C++
Ruby
C-sharp
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Aquamacs Emacs
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
Code Editor
Mac
129 Aquamacs Emacs alternatives
An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...
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Aquamacs Emacs Features
1. Support for LaTeXAquamacs Emacs supports LaTeX for text and math equation formatting.
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Hex Fiend
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Free • Open Source
Mac
38 Hex Fiend alternatives
A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.
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Hex Editor
Checksums verification
Hex Edit
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Free • Open Source
Windows
46 Hex Edit alternatives
HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).
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Hex Edit Features
Hex Editor
Search and Replace
Custom templates
BEYE (Binary EYE)
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Windows
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BlackBerry QNX
FreeDOS
FreeBSD
MS-DOS
29 BEYE (Binary EYE) alternatives
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.
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