PE Explorer Alternatives Filtered by 'Portable'

The best alternative to PE Explorer is Resource Hacker, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to PE Explorer and 15 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to PE Explorer are HxD, Malcat, PE-bear and Universal Extractor 2.

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  1. Resource Hacker icon
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    Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.

    21 Resource Hacker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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  2. HxD icon
     136 likes

    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 types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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  3. Malcat icon
     8 likes

    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
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. EXE Explorer icon
     8 likes

    It reads and displays executable file properties and structure. It is compatible with PE32 (Portable Executable), PE32+ (64bit), NE (Windows 3.x New Executable) and VxD (Windows 9x Virtual Device Driver) file types. .NET executables are supported too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. wxHexEditor icon
     43 likes

    Hex Editor. Support editing or comparing (diff) very large files up to 2^64 bytes. Cross-platform Linux, Mac OS, Windows.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. pestudio icon
     7 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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.

    45 Hex Editor Neo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. FileAlyzer icon
     8 likes

    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
    • PortableApps.com
     
  10. PPEE (puppy) icon
     2 likes

    Professional PE file Explorer for reversers, malware researchers and those who want to statically inspect PE files in more details.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. GARbro icon
     2 likes

    A resource browser, archiver, and extractor specializing in game data archives. It handles uncommon file formats not supported by standard zip and rar utilities. A full list of supported formats can be found at https://morkt.github.io/GARbro/supported.html.

    26 GARbro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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