REHex Alternatives

REHex is described as 'A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to REHex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Android apps. The best REHex alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like REHex are HxD, Rizin, wxHexEditor and 010 Editor.

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REHex alternatives page was last updated Jan 4, 2025

ImHex
31 likes
ImHex is a free, featureful Hex Editor with many tools often only found in paid products. It includes a custom built scripting language for highlighting and decoding binary data, a disassembler, extensive file analysis tools and much much more
28 ImHex alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is ImHex a good alternative to REHex?
ImHex is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to REHex.
ImHex is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to REHex.
ImHex is Free and Open SourceREHex is also Free and Open Source
ImHex is LightweightREHex is not according to our users
HxD
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 type
Text Editor
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Windows
Is HxD a good alternative to REHex?
Rizin
5 likes
Rizin is a feature rich reverse engineering framework in development, focusing on stability and high code quality, a welcoming and curious community culture and implementation of cutting edge binary analysis research.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (LGPL-3.0)
Application type
Decompiler
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Android
Mac
BSD
+2
Is Rizin a good alternative to REHex?
Rizin is the most popular Android alternative to REHex.
Rizin is Free and Open SourceREHex is also Free and Open Source
Rizin is LightweightREHex is not according to our users
wxHexEditor
43 likes
Hex Editor. Support editing or comparing (diff) very large files up to 2^64 bytes. Cross-platform Linux, Mac OS, Windows.
54 wxHexEditor alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
Türkiye
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
+2
Is wxHexEditor a good alternative to REHex?
010 Editor
29 likes
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
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
+1
Is 010 Editor a good alternative to REHex?
010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to REHex.
010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryREHex is Free and Open Source
radare2
20 likes
Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable commandline hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs, attaching to remote gdb servers, ...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
Spain
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
BSD
iPad
C (programming language)
Git
Haiku
Docker
+9
Is radare2 a good alternative to REHex?
radare2 is the most popular iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to REHex.
radare2 is Free and Open SourceREHex is also Free and Open Source
Malcat
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.
29 Malcat alternatives
Cost / License
Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
Proprietary
Application type
Decompiler
Platforms
Windows
Linux
+4
Is Malcat a good alternative to REHex?
Hex Fiend
16 likes
A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Is Hex Fiend a good alternative to REHex?
WinHex
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.
44 WinHex alternatives
Cost / License
Pay once
Proprietary
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Windows
Is WinHex a good alternative to REHex?
Bless
17 likes
Bless is a high quality, full featured hex editor. It is written in mono/Gtk# and its primary platform is GNU/Linux. However it should be able to run without problems on every platform that mono and Gtk# run on.
39 Bless alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
Greece
EU
Platforms
Windows
Linux
Is Bless a good alternative to REHex?
Kaitai Struct
9 likes
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
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is Kaitai Struct a good alternative to REHex?
BinEd
2 likes
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 (Apache-2.0)
Origin
Czechia
EU
Platforms
Linux
Mac
Windows
Java
Android
F-Droid
Apache NetBeans
IntelliJ IDEA
Eclipse
+3
Is BinEd a good alternative to REHex?