6 Like file Good alternative? YES NO file is a standard Unix program for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file using magic numbers. Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
10 Like TrID Good alternative? YES NO Allows to detect file type by recognition of binary signatures. Database with signatures can be downloaded from author site or trained by user with program named... Free Personal Windows Linux Web No features added Add a feature
1 Like Toolsley File Identifier Alternative? YES NO Identify files based on the libmagic database in your browser. HTML5/JS port of the "file" tool. No downloads, no installation and no uploads! Free Web No features added Add a feature
1 Like FileCHK Good alternative? YES NO Identify and recover (as much as possible) data lost in CHK files. Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
0 Like HexBrowser Good alternative? YES NO HexBrowser is a tool that identifies file types. It does not care about the file extension, but opens each file to look for signatures so it can determine the exact type... Free Windows No features added Add a feature
