wxHexEditor
Hex Editor. Support editing or comparing (diff) very large files up to 2^64 bytes. Cross-platform Linux, Mac OS, Windows.
What is wxHexEditor?
wxHexEditor is an open source cross-platform disk/sector/file hex editor written in C++ with a wxWidgets-based user interface.
Main features:
- low memory usage
- huge file/disk support (up to 2^64 bytes)
- compare two large files side by side (diff)
- raw disk access
- no temp files
- UTF8/Unicode text search
- file compare
- MD/RIPEMD/SHA/Tiger/HAVAL/CRC/Adler/GOST/Whirlpool/Snefru hash generator
- udis86 x86 disassembler
- dark or bright theme
- multilingual 15 languages
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
wxHexEditor Screenshots
wxHexEditor Features
wxHexEditor information
- Developed byErdem U. Altinyurt
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives52 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 477 Stars
- 108 Forks
- 71 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Hard Disk Recovery
- File Recovery
- reverse-engineering
- Text Editor
- hash-calculator
Lists containing wxHexEditor
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Summary: Diff large files. GUI. Cross-platform. Lots of features. Highly recommended.
Strength: • Hexadecimal (Hex) Editor. Which is helpful for doing reverse Engineering. • Cross-platform. Linux, Mac OS, Windows • Easy to use Graphical User Interface (GUI) • Supports very large files up to 2^64 bytes (2 ExaByte) • Compare two large files side by side (diff). Optionally list and search all diff. • Very fast search • Use small amount of RAM • Do not create temporary files. So it used a very small amount of storage space. • Dark or bright theme • Multilingual 15 languages • Open source. If you are not familiar with "open source", it means this software has both stronger security & stronger privacy. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions to GitHub at https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor or at SourceForge at https://sourceforge.net/p/wxhexeditor/code/ • Attractive GNU General Public License version 2. This means the software code of this extension is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation. https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxhexeditor/
Challenge: • At the time of this writing, August 2021, the last update of wxHexEditor was December 31st, 2017
Show Your Support: • If you enjoy this application, show your support to the authors & contributors with: ___• Donation at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?item_name=Donation+to+wxHexEditor&cmd=_donations&business=erdem.ua%40gmail.com ___• Support with ticket at https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxhexeditor/support ___• Support with forum at https://sourceforge.net/p/wxhexeditor/discussion/ ___• Patch at https://sourceforge.net/p/wxhexeditor/patches/
Using: • wxHexEditor 0.23 • Debian 10 Buster • GNOME 3.30.2
Official site wasn't updated for a long time, but in sourceforge discussions section I found a link to https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor - current official repository.
Development continues, so if you can compile it - you can get a fresher version.