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 25 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. PPEE (puppy) icon
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    Professional PE file Explorer for reversers, malware researchers and those who want to statically inspect PE files in more details.

    17 PPEE (puppy) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. BEYE (Binary EYE) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BlackBerry QNX
    • FreeDOS
    • FreeBSD
    • MS-DOS
     
  3. GARbro icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Hiew icon
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    Hiew (short for Hackers view) is a popular console hex editor for DOS and Windows written by Eugene Suslikov (sen). Amongst its feature set is its ability to view files in text, hex and disassembly mode.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ExEinfo PE icon
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    Packer, compressor detector / unpack info / internal exe tools.

    Internal Tools and Ripper Menu :

    Borland Delphi ( 2.0 - 7.0 ) Microsoft Visual C++ ver. 5,6,7,8.0 UPX exe/ dll 0.89.6 - 1.02 / 1.05 -3.03 -> Markus & Laszlo Aspack v2.12 -> Alexey Solodovnikov EXECrypto.

    17 ExEinfo PE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. XN Resource Editor is a free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  7. Hexplorer icon
     3 likes

    Open Source powerful and flexible Hex-Editor, with multiple colour-schemes that allow easy visual indication of byte-magnitude.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Hex Edit icon
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    HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).

    48 Hex Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. PilotEdit icon
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    PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search and replace operations, HEX mode, column mode, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11.  4 likes

    HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables. The goal is to combine the low-level functionality of a debugger and the usability of IDEs. We plan to implement all (hex-)editing features and support of the most important file formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
     
  12. Resource Hunter is a perfect resource explorer/hacker/grabber can extract pe resource from exe, dll ,extract icon and image like gif, png, bitmap.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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