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 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. Veles icon
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    Binary data analysis and visualization tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Heraia icon
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    Lightweight HEX-Editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  3. PE Explorer icon
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    PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.

    49 PE Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    It's not focused on hex editing general files, RAM or disk, but PE files, only.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • PE Explorer is Paid and ProprietaryHxD is Free and Proprietary
  4. RJ TextEd icon
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    RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. MadEdit icon
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    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    132 MadEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  6. Bless icon
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    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.

    40 Bless alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Replace, insert, delete, copy, and otherwise modify bytes and bits in multiple files. Perform bitwise operations on specified bytes with bitmasks and operators like NOT, AND, OR, XOR. Reverse order of specified bytes and bits. Compute file hashes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    DataWorkshop, a flexible, multiplatform binary data editor written in java. Implements power structure definition tool that allows to describe complex data structures inside files using loops and condition.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Aquamacs Emacs icon
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    An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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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
     
  11. JujuEdit icon
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    JujuEdit is a file editor, or alternatively a text editor with knobs-on. It is an application designed for me and people like me. At its simplest, it makes a fine replacement for Notepad. It may appeal more to computer nerds who like syntax hilighting and advanced find/replace...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. DHEX icon
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    DHEX is a more than just another hex editor: It includes a diff mode, which can be used to easily and conveniently compare two binary files. Since it is based on ncurses and is themeable, it can run on any number of systems and scenarios.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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