PE Explorer Alternatives
PE Explorer is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PE Explorer for Windows, Linux, Mac, PortableApps.com and BSD. The best PE Explorer alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like PE Explorer are HxD, wxHexEditor, 010 Editor and Universal Extractor 2.
PE Explorer alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be File Comparison Tools or Anti-Malware Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of PE Explorer.Resource Hacker
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo22 Resource Hacker alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.
- - Resource Hacker is the most popular Windows alternative to PE Explorer.
- - Resource Hacker is the most popular free alternative to PE Explorer.
Resource Hacker Features
Comments about Resource Hacker as a Alternative to PE Explorer
it only edits dialog stuff
0Resource Hacker better handles icons and such includes whereas PE Explorer for viewing code.
6HxD 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.
Comments about HxD as a Alternative to PE Explorer
HxD is just a hex editor, it does not support any PE functionality, like parsing the headers.
7wxHexEditor
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- File Comparison Tool
52 wxHexEditor alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
wxHexEditor is an open source cross-platform disk/sector/file hex editor written in C++ with a wxWidgets-based user interface.
- - wxHexEditor is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to PE Explorer.
- - wxHexEditor is the most popular Open Source alternative to PE Explorer.
wxHexEditor Features
DiscontinuedThe 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
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Paid • Proprietary
- Text Editor
- File Comparison Tool
46 010 Editor alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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 PE Explorer.
010 Editor Features
Universal Extractor 2
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo24 Universal Extractor 2 alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Universal Extractor 2 is an unofficial updated and extended version of the original UniExtract by Jared Breland. It brings several hundred changes including community-wanted ones such as a batch mode, auto-updater and scan-only-functionality.
Universal Extractor 2 Features
Malcat
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Freemium • Proprietary
- Decompiler
22 Malcat alternatives- Windows
- Linux
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.
Malcat Features
Dependency Walker
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo5 Dependency Walker alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Dependency Walker is a free utility that extracts a hierarchal tree of dependencies from any 32- or 64-bit Windows executable module (EXE, DLL, OCX, SYS, DRV, etc.), including those that were built for Windows CE.
Dependency Walker Features
DiscontinuedProgram has been discontinued
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.
Okteta Features
pestudio
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Freemium • Proprietary
- Anti-Virus App
- Anti-Malware App
12 pestudio alternatives- Windows
pestudio implements a rich set of features that is especially designed to retrieve every single detail of any executable file. Results are checked against the Microsoft specification. Additionally, the content of the file being analyzed is checked against several white and black...
pestudio Features
Explorer Suite
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo7 Explorer Suite alternatives- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Created by Daniel Pistelli, a freeware suite of tools including a PE editor called CFF Explorer and a process viewer. The PE editor has full support for PE32/64. Special fields description and modification (.
Explorer Suite Features
WinHex
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Paid • Proprietary
- Text Editor
- File Recovery Tool
41 WinHex alternatives- Windows
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.
WinHex Features
Dependencies
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo5 Dependencies alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Dependencies is a rewrite of the legacy software Dependency Walker which was shipped along Windows SDKs, but whose development stopped around 2006. Dependencies can help Windows developers troubleshooting their dll load dependencies issues.
Dependencies Features