ImHex Alternatives

ImHex is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ImHex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Android apps. The best ImHex alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like ImHex are Rizin, radare2, wxHexEditor and 010 Editor.

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

    55 HxD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    consumes 100 times less ram than imhex

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • HxD is the most popular Windows alternative to ImHex.

    • HxD is the most popular free alternative to ImHex.

    • HxD is Free and ProprietaryImHex is Free and Open Source
  2. Rizin icon
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    Rizin is a feature rich reverse engineering framework in development, focusing on stability and high code quality, a welcoming and curious community culture and implementation of cutting edge binary analysis research.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Mac
    • BSD
     
    • Rizin is the most popular Android, Mac & Linux alternative to ImHex.

    • Rizin is the most popular Open Source alternative to ImHex.

    • Rizin is Free and Open SourceImHex is also Free and Open Source
  3. radare2 icon
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    Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable commandline hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb servers, ...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • C (programming language)
    • Git
    • Haiku
    • Docker
     
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    Radare is not a Hex Editor, it's a reverse engineering toolkit. Thus, not appropriate as an alternative to ImHex.

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    • radare2 is the most popular iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to ImHex.

    • radare2 is Free and Open SourceImHex is also Free and Open Source
  4. wxHexEditor icon
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    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. 010 Editor icon
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    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.

    48 010 Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to ImHex.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryImHex is Free and Open Source
  6. 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 (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Hex Fiend icon
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    A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. WinHex icon
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    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.

    44 WinHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    28 REHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. 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
     
  11. Kaitai Struct icon
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    Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code in Java, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.

    19 Kaitai Struct alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. BinEd icon
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    BinEd is a hex editor tool, which allows to directly browse and edit content of any file or binary data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
     
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