WinHex Alternatives

WinHex is described as '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' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to WinHex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Xfce apps. The best WinHex alternative is HxD, which is free. Other great apps like WinHex are ImHex, wxHexEditor, 010 Editor and PE Explorer.

WinHex alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or File Comparison Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of WinHex.

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WinHex

Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
Windows

WinHex is a hexadecimal editor capable of opening disks, sectors, files (native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS,...

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HxD
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Free • Proprietary
Text Editor
Windows
53 HxD alternatives
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.
- - HxD is the most popular Windows alternative to WinHex.
- - HxD is the most popular free alternative to WinHex.
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HxD Features
1. PortableHxD can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in HxD without registration.
3. LightweightHxD consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. Ad-freeHxD doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Hex Editor
Disk editor
ImHex
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
24 ImHex alternatives
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
- - ImHex is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to WinHex.
- - ImHex is the most popular Open Source alternative to WinHex.
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ImHex Features
1. PortableImHex can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. LightweightImHex consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Hex Editor
FOSS
Disassembler
GPL
wxHexEditor
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
52 wxHexEditor alternatives
wxHexEditor is an open source cross-platform disk/sector/file hex editor written in C++ with a wxWidgets-based user interface.
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wxHexEditor Features
1. PortablewxHexEditor can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hex Editor
Key binding
Hexadecimal
Visual Programming
ASCII Editor
Disk editor
Support for Unicode
Disassembler
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

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010 Editor
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Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
46 010 Editor alternatives
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.
- - 010 Editor is the most popular commercial alternative to WinHex.
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010 Editor Features
Hex Editor
Disk editor
PE Explorer
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
50 PE Explorer alternatives
PE Explorer is the most feature-packed program for inspecting the inner workings of your own software, and more importantly, third party Windows applications and libraries for which you do not have source code.
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PE Explorer Features
Disassembler
Discontinued
Not updated for very long time, no 64bit support.
Okteta
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
40 Okteta alternatives
Okteta is a simple editor for the raw data of files. This type of program is also called hex editor or binary editor. The data is displayed in the traditional view with two columns: one with the numeric values and one with the assigned characters.
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Hex Editor
MadEdit
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
Windows
Linux
BSD
Xfce
137 MadEdit alternatives
MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.
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MadEdit Features
1. Syntax HighlightingMadEdit supports syntax highlighting for various programming and markup languages.
Hex Editor
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Kaitai Struct
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 Kaitai Struct alternatives
Kaitai Struct is a declarative language used for describe various binary data structures, laid out in files or in memory: i.e. binary file formats, network stream packet formats, etc.
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Hex Editor
C++
Ruby
C-sharp
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RJ TextEd
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Free • Proprietary
Text Editor
Code Editor
Windows
129 RJ TextEd alternatives
RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates...
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RJ TextEd Features
1. PortableRJ TextEd can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Syntax HighlightingRJ TextEd supports syntax highlighting for various programming and markup languages.
Hex Editor Neo
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
42 Hex Editor Neo alternatives
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.
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Hex Editor Neo Features
1. PortableHex Editor Neo can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Hex Editor
DMDE
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
97 DMDE alternatives
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.
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DMDE Features
1. NTFS Partition RecoveryDMDE can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
Filesystem
Partition Recovery
Hex Fiend
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Free • Open Source
Mac
38 Hex Fiend alternatives
A fast and clever open source hex editor for macOS.
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Hex Editor
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