WinHex Alternatives

Apps similar to WinHex include Digler, which is free and open source. Other options are ImHex, HxD, dz6 and 010 Editor. There's no shortage of Hex Editors like WinHex, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and the web.

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  1. Synalyze It! icon
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    You got a binary file and don't know its contents. Or some software creates binary files where you have a specification but don't want to decode them manually.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. HextEdit icon
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    HextEdit is a fast and lightweight hex editor for viewing and editing binary data. Quickly edit virtually any file type at a low level in a simple and native app. It features fast incremental find, a byte inspector and generally fast performance as a native app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. HexEd.it icon
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    HexEd.it is a free hex editor for all modern operating systems. It uses web technology to enable online hexediting, directly in the browser. Analyse binary dumps and files, read, manipulate, write, import and export any data in this webapp.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  5.  11 likes

    Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code in Java, JavaScript, Python and Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. REHex icon
     1 like

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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  7. PilotEdit icon
     3 likes

    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
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Hiew icon
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    Hiew (short for Hackers view) is a popular console hex editor for DOS and Windows written by Eugene Suslikov (sen). Amongst its feature set is its ability to view files in text, hex and disassembly mode.

    43 Hiew alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Hexinator icon
     2 likes

    The professional Hex Editor for Windows and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Hexer icon
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    Hexer is an open-source hex editor for Windows featuring direct view of all kinds of data interpretations, and in-line data type annotation system with markers which is reusable across files.

    45 Hexer alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. iHex icon
     1 like

    A fast and clever hex editor, checksum utility, file information viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. 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 (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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