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 10 alternatives to ImHex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and iPad. The best alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like ImHex are wxHexEditor, 010 Editor, Malcat and radare2.

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

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HxD
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Free • Proprietary
Text Editor
Windows
54 alternatives to HxD
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.
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HxD Features
1. PortableHxD can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in HxD without registration.
3. LightweightHxD consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. Ad-freeHxD doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Hex Editor
Disk editor
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wxHexEditor
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
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BSD
52 alternatives to wxHexEditor
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
010 Editor
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Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
47 alternatives to 010 Editor
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.
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010 Editor Features
Hex Editor
Disk editor
Malcat
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Freemium • Proprietary
Decompiler
Windows
Linux
22 alternatives to Malcat
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
radare2
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Android Tablet
BSD
iPad
C (programming language)
Git
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Docker
15 alternatives to radare2
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, ...
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Debugging
Hexadecimal
Disassembler
Visual Mode
Visualizer
Hex Editor Neo
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
42 alternatives to Hex Editor Neo
Hex Editor Neo is a binary files editing software utility for Windows. It's rich and handy set of features will help all software and hardware developers working with ASCII, hex, decimal, float, double and binary data.
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Hex Editor Neo Features
1. PortableHex Editor Neo can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hex Editor
WinHex
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Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
File Recovery Tool
Windows
41 alternatives to WinHex
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.
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WinHex Features
Disk editor
ASCII Editor
Support for Unicode
Hex Editor
Bless
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
38 alternatives to Bless
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
Hex Fiend
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Free • Open Source
Mac
39 alternatives to Hex Fiend
A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.
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Hex Fiend Features
Hex Editor
Checksums verification
Kaitai Struct
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 alternatives to Kaitai Struct
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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