Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor Alternatives

Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor is described as 'As the name implies, this is a hex editor. It aims to be a good general-purpose hex editor and to have a wide selection of features for analysing and annotating binary file formats' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and F-Droid apps. The best Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor are wxMEdit, wxHexEditor, Binary Ninja and Bless.

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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 Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor.

    • HxD is the most popular free alternative to Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor.

    • HxD is Free and ProprietaryReverse Engineer's Hex Editor is Free and Open Source
    • HxD is LightweightReverse Engineer's Hex Editor is not according to our users
  2. wxMEdit icon
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    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    85 wxMEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • wxMEdit is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor.

    • wxMEdit is the most popular Open Source alternative to Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor.

    • wxMEdit is Free and Open SourceReverse Engineer's Hex Editor is also Free and Open Source
  3. wxHexEditor icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Binary Ninja icon
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    A reverse engineering platform and GUI.

    33 Binary Ninja alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Binary Ninja is the most popular commercial alternative to Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor.

    • Binary Ninja is Paid and ProprietaryReverse Engineer's Hex Editor is Free and Open Source
  5. Bless icon
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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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 Reverse Engineer's Hex Editor.

    • BinEd is Free and Open SourceReverse Engineer's Hex Editor is also Free and Open Source
    • BinEd is Privacy focusedReverse Engineer's Hex Editor is not according to our users
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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. 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
     
  10. 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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    McAfee FileInsight, developed by McAfee Labs, is an integrated tool environment for website and file analysis. Its many built-in editing and analysis features can be easily extended through simple Python-based plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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