Top 15 Hex Edit Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).

Feature Summary

Easy to use interface familiar to Windows users
Unlimited undo (incl. cursor moves), undo changes
Window tabs to see/jump to any open window
Highlighter mode to remember important bytes
Built-in calculator, integrated with macros
Autofit, hex/decimal addresses, OVR/INS, RO etc
Drag and drop files onto the main window
Background searches (using low priority thread)
Background search progress/count in status bar
Configure all colours, save in colour schemes
Ability to display IBM/OEM (MSDOS) graphics
Easily change font, increase/decrease font size
Printer margins, headers/footers etc & print preview
Complete clipboard support: binary, ASCII, etc
Easy to use hex/text searches with the "Find Tool"
Address tools for fast jumps
Compare files or parts of the same file
Open multiple files from Open dialog/cmd line
Full EBCDIC support (incl. cut/paste etc)
Keystroke macros with error levels
Continually updated properties display (tab dialog)
Monitor/edit over 60 file/byte/numeric/date values
8 floating point formats, 15 date formats
8/16/32/64 bit integers (signed/unsigned) in decimal
Customize toolbars, keyboard, context menus ...
Customizable filter (Files of type) list for all file dialogs
Hex text, Motorola-S & Intel-hex import/export
CRC-32, CRC-CCITT, & checksum of selection
Advanced templates handle almost any type of file
Templates can have variable length and optional parts
Included templates: GIF, SWF, BMP, DBF, JPG etc
Recent files dialog stores info on up to 20000 files
Use C-like expressions in jump tools and templates
Unlimited bookmarks associated with a file+address
Advanced find (& replace options) including:
scope: to mark, to EOF, whole file, all open files
bookmark all, replace all, alignment, wildcards/bitmask
Edit files of more than 4 Gbytes (>2^32)
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1. Catch22 HexEdit

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2. Hex Fiend

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3. Hexplorer

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4. FileInsight

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5. HxD

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6. Textplorer

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7. wxMEdit

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8. MadEdit-Mod

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9. Batch Hex Editor

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10. Hex Editor Neo

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11. Free Hex Editor

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12. Ghex

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13. Okteta

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14. Bless

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15. Heraia

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