DiskExplorer Alternatives

DiskExplorer is described as 'This is also a disk editor. It comes with a very clean and usable UI and offers comprehensive information about NTFS' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to DiskExplorer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best DiskExplorer alternative is Digler, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DiskExplorer are HxD, DMDE, WinHex and Active@ Disk Editor.

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  1. Digler icon
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    Digler is a tool for forensic disk analysis and file recovery. It's designed to help you unearth lost or deleted data from various disk images and raw devices.

    50 Digler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • Digler is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to DiskExplorer.

    • Digler is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to DiskExplorer.

    • Digler is Free and Open SourceDiskExplorer is Paid and Proprietary
  2. 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
     
  3. DMDE icon
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    DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery (DMDE) is a disk editor which can help you to understand NTFS. Its capable to view your hard disk sector wise, on MFT level, to disect mft attributes and to edit bytes on your hard disk.

    99 DMDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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
     
    • WinHex is the most popular commercial alternative to DiskExplorer.

    • WinHex is Paid and ProprietaryDiskExplorer is also Paid and Proprietary
    • WinHex is LightweightDiskExplorer is not according to our users
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    A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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 DiskExplorer.

    • BinEd is Free and Open SourceDiskExplorer is Paid and Proprietary
    • BinEd is Privacy focusedDiskExplorer is not according to our users
  7. Hex Workshop icon
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    The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Hex Workshop combines advanced binary editing and data interpretation with the ease and flexibility of a modern word processor.

    44 Hex Workshop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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 (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Hex Editor Neo is a binary files editing software utility for Windows. It's rich and handy set of features will help all software and hardware developers working with ASCII, hex, decimal, float, double and binary data.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. NFI icon
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    NTFS File Sector Information Utility. NFI is a command line tool that can be used to (1) display information about all entries in the Master File Table ($MFT), (2) display information about what NTFS file contains a particular sector within a "physical drive" (3)...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Hecate icon
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    The Hex Editor From Hell! Hecate is a terminal hex editor that, instead of putting the (ASCII) representation of bytes way out on the right side of the screen, it puts the interpreted values directly beneath the hex representation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. 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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