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What are the best hex editors?

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Best hex editors	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
87 HxD	Free	Windows	Dec 9, 2023
-- wxHexEditor	Free	Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD	Dec 8, 2023
-- 010 Editor	$49.95	Windows, Linux, Mac	Sep 17, 2023
-- Hex Editor Neo	Free / paid	Windows	May 24, 2023
-- GNU Emacs	Free	GNU/Linux, BSD-like, Windows, MacOS	Nov 30, 2023

HxD

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Free

Free for private and commercial use. See More

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edit

TolerantThoas's Experience

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Platforms:Windows

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Lots of features

Searching and replacing, exporting, checksums / digests, insert byte patterns, file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics etc. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

Hxd is a Windows hex editor that can handle files of any size, it also can be used as a RAW disk editor and RAM editor. See More

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Portable

Portable version available. See More

IntelligentWadjWer's Experience

Best features out of any I've used. And you can view any process in RAM. See More

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Easy UI

The UI elements are arranged in a intuitive manner. See More

EncouragingHuitaca's Experience

Hello ! With HxD you can work with file, disk or memory and do a lot of things. I use the portable version. See More

010 Editor

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Scriptable

Editing operations can be automated using a scripting language with a syntax similar to C++. See More

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Custom Checksums not flexible

For CRC-32 calculations, you can choose the initial and poly values, but the RefIn/RefOut and XorOut values can't be modified. See More

GraciousKishar's Experience

If you need complex editing capabilities, this is the best program due to it's file scripting. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

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Ability to open huge text files quickly

Mike's Experience

Due to the possibility to use file templates and write automating scripts, it is the best companion for recurring hex editing work. See More

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Binary Templates technology

The Editor can parse a file into a hierarchical structure using a Binary Template to help to understand the binary data. See More

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Allow debuging template

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Multi-Platform

Windows, macOS, or Linux. See More

Hex Editor Neo

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Scripting

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Platforms:Windows

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Fast

Allowed me to conveniently work with a large file. See More

GNU Emacs

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Platforms:GNU/Linux, BSD-like, Windows, MacOS

Hexinator

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Basic hex editing features are free

Hexinator has some advanced reverse engineering features. You can create a "grammar" for custom binary file formats and let software parse files automatically. See More

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Pricey

The highlighting is in paid version after the trial period, and 80$ is not an attractive price. See More

ElatedIuchar's Experience

Good hex editor, creating own grammar highlighting was pretty simple and very useful but only until end of trial. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux

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Portable

A portable version is available. See More

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Automatic file decoding

Hexinator decodes various file formats automatically with "grammars". There are already many grammars for dozens of file formats. See More

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Scripting engine

Allows scripting with Lua or Python (Paid version only). See More

UltraEdit

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Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

ImHex

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Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

hyx

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Platforms:Linux, Mac, BSD

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