Kaitai Struct Alternatives

Kaitai Struct is described as 'Formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code in Java, JavaScript, Python and Ruby' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Kaitai Struct for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best Kaitai Struct alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Kaitai Struct are HxD, 010 Editor, Hex Fiend and WinHex.

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  1. ImHex icon

    ImHex

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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • ImHex is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Kaitai Struct.

    • ImHex is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Kaitai Struct.

    • ImHex is Free and Open SourceKaitai Struct is also Free and Open Source
    • ImHex is LightweightKaitai Struct is not according to our users
  2. HxD icon

    HxD

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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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  4. 010 Editor icon

    010 Editor

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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
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    • 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to Kaitai Struct.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryKaitai Struct is Free and Open Source
  6. WinHex icon

    WinHex

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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
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  7. REHex icon

    REHex

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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
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  9. Catch22 HexEdit icon

    Catch22 HexEdit

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    HexEdit is a hexadecimal file editor for Microsoft Windows. HexEdit allows the user to view and edit any type of file, no matter what format it is saved in.

    45 Catch22 HexEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. BinEd icon

    BinEd

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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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    • BinEd is the most popular Android alternative to Kaitai Struct.

    • BinEd is Free and Open SourceKaitai Struct is also Free and Open Source
    • BinEd is Privacy focusedKaitai Struct is not according to our users
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    FileAlyzer

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    FileAlyzer is a tool to analyze files, allows a basic analysis of files (showing file properties and file contents in hex dump form) and is able to interpret common file contents like resources structures (like text, graphics, HTML, media and PE).

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Synalyze It! icon

    Synalyze It!

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    You got a binary file and don't know its contents. Or some software creates binary files where you have a specification but don't want to decode them manually.

    20 Synalyze It! alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. Preon

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    Preon aims to provide a framework for dealing with binary encoded data; or more specifically, it aims to deal with situations in which bytes are considered to be overkill. The project is named after the "point-like" particles, conceived to be subcomponents of quarks...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
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