HxD Alternatives for Linux

HxD is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to HxD and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to HxD are wxHexEditor, 010 Editor, wxMEdit and Malcat.

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.

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Free • Proprietary
Text Editor
Windows

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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Linux
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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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
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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Most users think wxHexEditor is a great HxD alternative.
010 Editor
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Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
46 010 Editor alternatives
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.
- - 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to HxD.
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Hex Editor
Disk editor
wxMEdit
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
73 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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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.
Malcat
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Freemium • Proprietary
Decompiler
Windows
Linux
22 Malcat alternatives
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.
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Malcat Features
1. Malware AnalysisMalcat can inspect a suspicious file or URL to detect potential threats.
2. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsMalcat can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Disassembler
Hex Editor
Static analysis
Hexadecimal
Okteta
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
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
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.
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
Binary Ninja
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
28 Binary Ninja alternatives
A reverse engineering platform and GUI.
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Binary Ninja Features
Static analysis
Hex Editor
Debugging
X86/x64 Compatibility
Kaitai Struct
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
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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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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1. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsBless can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Hex Editor
Tabbed interface
Support for Multiple threads
Heraia
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Xfce
35 Heraia alternatives
Lightweight HEX-Editor.
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Heraia Features
1. LightweightHeraia consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Hex Editor