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, Android and BSD apps. The best REHex alternative is ImHex, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like REHex are HxD, 010 Editor, wxHexEditor and Rizin.

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A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

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REHex alternatives page was last updated Jan 4, 2025
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  1. ImHex icon

    ImHex

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    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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    ImHex screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Hex Editor
    2.  Disassembler
    3.  GPL
    4.  Portable
    5.  Support for scripting
    6.  Ad-free

    ImHex VS 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
  2. HxD icon

    HxD

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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.

    56 HxD alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    HxD screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Hex Editor
    2.  Disk editor
    3.  Portable
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Works Offline

    HxD VS REHex

     
  4. 010 Editor icon

    010 Editor

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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

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    010 Editor screenshot 1

    010 Editor Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Hex Editor
    3.  Disk editor

    010 Editor VS REHex

     

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

    • 010 Editor is Paid and ProprietaryREHex is Free and Open Source
  5. wxHexEditor icon

    wxHexEditor

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • TR flagTürkiye

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    wxHexEditor screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The project seems no longer developed since 2020. Last version, 0.24, released in December 2017, can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

    wxHexEditor Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Key binding
    3.  Hexadecimal
    4.  Visual Programming
    5.  Hex Editor
    6.  ASCII Editor
    7.  Disk editor
    8.  Support for Unicode
    9.  Disassembler

    wxHexEditor VS REHex

     
  6. Rizin icon

    Rizin

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Mac
    • BSD
    Disassembly view

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  Portable
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Support for scripting
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  Hex Editor
    10.  Community-based
    11.  Graph view
    12.  Emulation

    Rizin VS 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
  7. radare2 icon

    radare2

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    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, ...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • ES flagSpain
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • C (programming language)
    • Git
    • Haiku
    • Docker
    The new WebUI

    radare2 Features

    1.  Debugging
    2.  Hexadecimal
    3.  Disassembler
    4.  Visual Mode
    5.  Visualizer

    radare2 VS 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
  9. Hex Fiend icon

    Hex Fiend

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    A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Hex Fiend screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Hex Editor
    2.  Checksums verification

    Hex Fiend VS REHex

     
  10. BinEd icon

    BinEd

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
    • Android
    • F-Droid
    • Apache NetBeans
    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Eclipse
    BinEd screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  Java based
    6.  Undo and redo
    7.  Hex Editor
    8.  Hexadecimal
    9.  Data visualization
    10.  Support for Unicode

    BinEd VS REHex

     
  11. Malcat icon

    Malcat

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    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.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Malcat screenshot 1

    Malcat Features

    1.  Disassembler
    2.  Hex Editor
    3.  Malware Analysis
    4.  File Comparison
    5.  Static analysis
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Hexadecimal
    8.  Portable
    9.  Works Offline
    10.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Malcat VS REHex

     
  12. WinHex icon

    WinHex

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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

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main window

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Recover Corrupted Files
    2.  NTFS Partition Recovery
    3.  Disk editor
    4.  Hex Editor
    5.  ASCII Editor
    6.  Support for Unicode

    WinHex VS REHex

     
  13. Bless icon

    Bless

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    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.

    40 Bless alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • GR flagGreece
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    The usual offset-hex-ascii view and the pattern highlight feature.

    Bless Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Hex Editor
    3.  Tabbed interface
    4.  Support for Multiple threads

    Bless VS REHex

     
  14. Kaitai Struct icon

    Kaitai Struct

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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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Kaitai Struct Features

    1.  Hex Editor
    2.  C++
    3.  C-sharp

    Kaitai Struct VS REHex

     
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