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 a Resource Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PE Explorer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best PE Explorer alternative is Resource Hacker, which is free. Other great apps like PE Explorer are HxD, 010 Editor, Malcat and Explorer Suite.

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  1. Free Resource Extractor is a free and handy utility to scan all DLL, EXE and OCX files and extract built-in resources like icons, bitmaps, cursors, sounds, AVI videos, HTML files, metafiles, etc. Free Resource Extractor can even extract useful resources from system files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning
    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. pestudio icon
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    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
     
  3. Hex Workshop icon
     15 likes

    The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Hex Workshop combines advanced binary editing and data interpretation with the ease and flexibility of a modern word processor.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Okteta icon
     16 likes

    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.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
  5. PE Tools icon
     2 likes

    This is a fully-functional utility for working with PE/PE +(64bit) files. Including: Editor PE of files, Task Viewer, Win32 PE files optimizer, detector of compiler/packer and many other things.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. WinHex icon
     18 likes

    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.

    46 WinHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Restorator icon
     11 likes

    Restorator is an award-winning utility to edit windows resources in applications and their components, e.g. files with .exe, .dll, .res, .rc, .dcr, extension (see PE files and RES files).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. BinEd icon
     2 likes

    BinEd is a hex editor tool, which allows to directly browse and edit content of any file or binary data.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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
     
  11. YuHex icon
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    YuHex is a simple binary editor for Windows. It provides the essential features needed to work with binary files, including editing, searching, and changing text encodings.

    38 YuHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. 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
     
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