WinHex Alternatives for Linux

WinHex is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is wxHexEditor, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to WinHex and 18 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to WinHex are ImHex, 010 Editor, Okteta and MadEdit.

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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wxHexEditor
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
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Linux
BSD
52 alternatives to wxHexEditor
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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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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ImHex
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
24 alternatives to ImHex
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
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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
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Disassembler
GPL
010 Editor
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Paid • Proprietary
Text Editor
File Comparison Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
47 alternatives to 010 Editor
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.
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Hex Editor
Disk editor
Okteta
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
40 alternatives to Okteta
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
139 alternatives to MadEdit
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.
DMDE
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Freemium • Proprietary
File Recovery Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
97 alternatives to DMDE
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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1. NTFS Partition RecoveryDMDE can recover your data from a formatted or deleted NTFS partition.
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Partition Recovery
Kaitai Struct
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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17 alternatives to Kaitai Struct
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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C++
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Heraia
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Free • Open Source
Linux
Xfce
35 alternatives to Heraia
Lightweight HEX-Editor.
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Heraia Features
1. LightweightHeraia consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
Hex Editor
Active@ Disk Editor
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Linux
39 alternatives to Active@ Disk Editor
A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions
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Disk editor
Hex Editor
DataWorkshop
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Linux
25 alternatives to DataWorkshop
DataWorkshop, a flexible, multiplatform binary data editor written in java. Implements power structure definition tool that allows to describe complex data structures inside files using loops and condition.
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DataWorkshop Features
1. PortableDataWorkshop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.