HxD Alternatives

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 Hex 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 dz6, wxHexEditor, 010 Editor and wxMEdit.

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  1. Malcat icon
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    Malcat is a feature-rich hexadecimal editor / disassembler / decompiler for reverse engineers and malware analysts. It has support for many file formats and CPUs, can scan for signatures, decrypt/decompress data, diff files and run python scripts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  2. iHex icon
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    A fast and clever hex editor, checksum utility, file information viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Hexer icon
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    Hexer is an open-source hex editor for Windows featuring direct view of all kinds of data interpretations, and in-line data type annotation system with markers which is reusable across files.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. McAfee FileInsight, developed by McAfee Labs, is an integrated tool environment for website and file analysis. Its many built-in editing and analysis features can be easily extended through simple Python-based plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. PilotEdit icon
     3 likes

    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
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Ghex icon
     15 likes

    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.

    26 Ghex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. YuHex icon
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    YuHex is a simple binary editor for Windows. It provides the essential features needed to work with binary files, including editing, searching, and changing text encodings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. HextEdit icon
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    HextEdit is a 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Hex Edit icon
     6 likes

    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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Binary Ninja icon
     25 likes

    A reverse engineering platform and GUI.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. DiskExplorer icon
     3 likes

    This is also a disk editor. It comes with a very clean and usable UI and offers comprehensive information about NTFS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Kaitai Struct icon
     9 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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