Preon Alternatives

Preon is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Preon for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best Preon alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like Preon are 010 Editor, WinHex, Kaitai Struct and BinEd.

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  1. HxD icon
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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
     
    • HxD is the most popular Windows alternative to Preon.

    • HxD is the most popular free alternative to Preon.

    • HxD is Free and ProprietaryPreon is Free and Open Source
    • HxD is LightweightPreon is not according to our users
  2. 010 Editor icon
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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
     
    • 010 Editor is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Preon.

    • 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to Preon.

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryPreon is Free and Open Source
  3. WinHex icon
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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
     
  4. Kaitai Struct icon
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    Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code in Java, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.

    19 Kaitai Struct alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Kaitai Struct is the most popular Open Source alternative to Preon.

    • Kaitai Struct is Free and Open SourcePreon is also Free and Open Source
  5. BinEd icon
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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
     
    • BinEd is the most popular Android alternative to Preon.

    • BinEd is Free and Open SourcePreon is also Free and Open Source
    • BinEd is Privacy focusedPreon is not according to our users
  6. Synalyze It! icon
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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
     
  7. DHEX icon
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    DHEX is a more than just another hex editor: It includes a diff mode, which can be used to easily and conveniently compare two binary files. Since it is based on ncurses and is themeable, it can run on any number of systems and scenarios.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Tweak is a hex editor. It allows you to edit a file at very low level, letting you see the full and exact binary contents of the file. It can be useful for modifying binary files such as executables, editing disk or CD images, debugging programs that generate binary file formats...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. File Peek icon
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    Use the built-in hex editor, get MD5, SHA1, SHA256 hashes and Base64 with one click, or change the modified and created dates.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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