Comparison of hex editors
General
| GUI | Console | Software license | Cost | Latest version | Latest release date | Windows | Macintosh | Linux | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 010 Editor | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 50–130 | 6.0.1 | January 28, 2015 | Yes (Win98 and up) | Yes | Yes |
| 1Fh | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | 0 | 1.18 | April 29, 2009 | Yes | No | No |
| HxD | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | 0 | 1.7.7.0 | April 3, 2009 | Yes (Win95, WinNT4 and up) | No | No |
| AptEdit | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 44.95 | 4.8.1 | Yes (Win2000 and up) | No | No | |
| AXE | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 35 | 3.4 | Yes (Win95 and up) | No | No | |
| AviHex | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | 0 | 2.5.3 | June 20, 2008 | Yes | No | No |
| Be.HexEditor | Yes | No | MIT License | 0 | 1.6.0 | December 27, 2013 | Yes (Win2k and up) | No | No |
| beav | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 1.4.0 | Yes (msdos) | Yes | ||
| beye | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 6.1.0 | December 12, 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Binary Viewer Pro | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 10 | 1.0.0 | December 26, 2008 | Yes | No | No |
| bvi | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 1.4.0 | October 7, 2014 | Yes (DOS, Win95 and up) | Yes | Yes |
| Cheat Engine | Yes | No | APL | 0 | 6.4 | June 19, 2014 | Yes | No | No |
| CI Hex Viewer | Yes | No | Proprietary | 0 | 1.3 | January 14, 2013 | Yes (Windows XP and up) | Yes (Mac OS X 10.6 and up) | Yes |
| Cygnus Hex Editor | Proprietary | USD 39 | 2.50 | Yes (WinNT4 and up) | No | No | |||
| dhex | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 0.68 | September 9, 2012 | No | Yes | Yes |
| EditPad Pro | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 50 | 7.1.1 | January 24, 2012 | Yes (Win98 and up) | No | No |
| Emacs | Yes | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 24.4[1] | October 20, 2014 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Febooti Hex Editor | Yes | No | Proprietary | 0 | 3.0 | July 2011 | Yes (Win95 and up) | No | No |
| FlexHex | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 40 | 2.60 | September 16, 2008 | Yes (WinNT4 and up) | No | No |
| Frhed (Free Hex Editor) | Yes | No | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 1.7.1 | July 30, 2009 | Yes (Win98 and up) | No | No |
| GHex | Yes | No | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 2.24.0 | February 19, 2009 | No | Yes (via MacPorts) | Yes |
| Hackman Suite | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 27 | 9.2 | October 12, 2011 | Yes | No | No |
| HEdit | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 99 | 3.2 | Yes | No | No | |
| Hex-works | Yes | No | free (web application) | 0 | 14.02.2015 | February 14, 2015 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HexCurse | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 1.58 | February 27, 2014 | No | No | Yes |
| Hexditor.jar | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | 0 | - | December 12, 2012 | Yes (any windows with Java 1.4 or more) | Yes | Yes |
| Hex Edit | Yes | No | MIT License (Freeware) | 0 | 4.0 | July 13, 2012 | Yes | No | No |
| hexed | No | Yes | BSD-3 | 0 | 0.2.2 | May 6, 2014 | Yes (Source code) | Yes (Source code) | Yes (Source code) |
| HexEdit.js | Yes | No | none (web application) | 0 | 2015.03.25 | March 25, 2015 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hex Edit Pro | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 50 | 4.0 | December 14, 2011 | Yes | No | No |
| HexEdit by Lane Roathe | MPL | 0 | 2.20 | January 28, 2008 | No | Yes (680x0/PowerPC) | No | ||
| hexedit by Pascal Rigaux | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 1.2.13 | March 1, 2013 | No | Yes (MacPorts, Homebrew) | Yes |
| Hex Fiend | Yes | No | Two-clause BSD license | 0 | 2.1.2 | February 4, 2012 | No | Yes | No |
| Hexinator | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 40-90, hex editor is free | 1.0.0 | January 2015 | Yes | No | Yes |
| HexIt | No | Yes | Proprietary (sourcecode included) | 0 | 1.57 | December 8, 2006 | Yes (DOS, Win95 and up) | No | No |
| Hexplorer | Yes | No | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 2.6 | June 4, 2011 | Yes (Win95 and up) | No | No |
| Hexprobe Hex Editor | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 40 | 4.31 | June 26, 2009 | Yes (Win95 and up) | No | No |
| Hex Workshop | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 90 | 6.8.0 | September 2014 | Yes (Win2K and up) | No | No |
| Hiew | No | Yes | Proprietary | USD 19–199 | 8.41 | Feb 10, 2014 | Yes | No | No |
| HT Editor | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 2.1.0 | January 11, 2015 | Yes | Yes (Homebrew) | Yes |
| KHexEdit | Yes | No | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 0.8.5 | December 14, 1999 | No | No | Yes |
| Notepad++ (with Hex Editor Plugin) | Yes | No | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 6.0 | March 26, 2012 | Yes | No | No |
| Okteta | Yes | No | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 0.5 | Yes (KDEWin) | Yes | Yes | |
| shed | No | Yes | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 1.15 | March 24, 2009 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Synalyze It! | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | USD 7-30 | 1.7 | January 2, 2014 | No | Yes | No |
| tiny hexer | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | 0 | 1.8.1.6 | July 3, 2007 | Yes (Win98 and up) | No | No |
| TurboHex | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 29 | 1.0 | Yes | No | No | |
| VEDIT | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | USD 89 | 6.21.3 | September 12, 2011 | Yes | No | No |
| UltraEdit | Yes | No | Proprietary | USD 79.95 | 21.30 | September 26, 2014 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| webhex.net | Yes | No | none (web application) | 0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| WinHex | Yes | No | Proprietary | EUR 43–146 | 17.5 | Jan 28, 2014 | Yes (Win95 and up) | No | No |
| wxHexEditor | Yes | No | GPL / Free Software | 0 | 0.23 Beta | Jan 18, 2015 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XVI32 | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | 0 | 2.55 | June 26, 2012 | Yes (Win95 and up) | No | No |
Features
| Maximum file size | Partial file loading | Disk sector editing | Bit editing | Text editor | Insert / Delete bytes | Character encodings(ao) | Search Unicode | File structure view | Disassembler | File Compare | Find in Files | Bookmarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 010 Editor | unlimited | Yes | Partial (only Windows NT and up[2]) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unicode, ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 0xED | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | ASCII, UTF-8/UTF-16 encoded Unicode, ISO-Latin-1, Macintosh | No | No | No | |||||
| 1Fh | 2Gb | No | No | No | No | No | OEM, custom | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| HxD | unlimited[3] | Yes | Yes (Windows 9x/NT and up) | No | No | Yes | ANSI, ASCII, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AptEdit | unlimited | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| AXE | 2 GB | Yes | Partial (only Windows NT and up) | Unicode, ANSI, EBCDIC | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||
| AviHex | unlimited | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (32/64-bits, MMX and SSE commands) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Be.HexEditor | unlimited | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Unicode, EBCDIC | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Beav | unlimited | Yes | Partial
|
No | No | Yes | ASCII | No | No | No | No | Yes
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| beye | 8'192 TB | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ANSI, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh | Yes | Yes (AVR, Java, x86, i386, x86-64, ARM/XScale, PowerPC, PPC64) | Yes | |||
| Binary Viewer Free | unlimited | No | No | No | No | No | ASCII | No | No | ||||
| Binary Viewer Pro | unlimited | No | No | No | No | No | ASCII | Yes | No | ||||
| Bless | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ASCII | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| bvi | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, ASCII | No | No | |||||
| Catch22 HexEdit | 4 GB | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ANSI | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| CI Hex Viewer | Unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cygnus Hex Editor | 2 GB | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
| Cygnus Hex Editor FREE EDITION | 2 GB | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||||||
| DataWorkshop | 2 GB | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| dhex | 2^63 | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | ASCII | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Febooti Hex Editor | 2 GB | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI | Yes | Yes | ||||
| FlexHex | unlimited | Yes | Partial (only Windows NT and up) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI/MBCS, Unicode | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Frhed | limited by free RAM | Yes | No(read only) | Yes | No | Yes | ANSI, OEM | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| GHex | 4 GB | No | No | No | Yes | Partial (no copy/paste) | ASCII | No | No | No | Yes (replace) | ||
| Hackman Hex Editor Professional | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial (external: notepad) | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh, custom | Yes | Yes | Yes (AVR, Java, x86, Pentium III, Pentium 4-Prescott, Athlon-K7, Athlon 64, Cyrix-M2) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HEdit | > 2 GB | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ANSI, EBCDIC | No | |||||
| heme | 2 GB | No | No | Yes | No | ANSI | No | No | No | ||||
| Heraia | 4 GB | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ASCII | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Hexditor.jar | 2^63 | Yes | No (but view help) | Yes | ISO/IEC 8859-1, ASCII, OEM | Yes, case insensitive | No | Yes | |||||
| Hex Edit | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Hex Edit Pro | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, Code Pages (MBCS, Mac, UTF-8, etc.) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| hexed | 2GB+ | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Maximum file size | Partial file loading | Disk sector editing | Bit editing | Text editor | Insert / Delete bytes | Character encodings(ao) | Search Unicode | File structure view | Disassembler | File Compare | Find in Files | Bookmarks | |
| HexEdit by Lane Roathe | Yes | Yes | Yes (PowerPC) | Yes | |||||||||
| hexedit by Pascal Rigaux | unlimited | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ASCII | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| HexEdit.js | unlimited | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unicode (UTF-8/UTF-16), ASCII, ANSI, IBM866, ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-16 (incl. Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew), KOI8, Macintosh, x-user-defined and many others. | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Hex Fiend | unlimited | No | No | No | No | No | ANSI | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Hexinator | unlimited | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Unicode, ANSI, ASCII, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh and all ICU encodings | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| HexIt | limited by free RAM | No | No | No | Partial (viewer) | Yes | No | Yes (x86, Pentium II-Deschutes, x87, MMX, 3DNow!, also assembler) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Hexplorer | limited by free RAM | No | Partial (only Windows NT and up) | No | No | ANSI, OEM | No | Yes | No | ||||
| Hexprobe Hex Editor | unlimited | Yes | Partial (only Windows NT and up) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Hex Workshop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial (external: notepad) | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| HHD Software Free Hex Editor Neo | unlimited[4] | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ANSI | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| HHD Software Hex Editor Neo | unlimited | Yes | Partial (only Windows NT and up) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, Unicode, ASCII, OEM, ISO, EBCDIC, MAC, UTF-7(Export)/UTF-8, KOI8, ISCII, EUC, Arabic | Yes | Yes | Yes (x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow!, MSIL) | Yes | Yes (Replace) | Yes |
| Hiew | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ASCII,OEM, Unicode,Custom | Yes | Yes | Yes (x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE 4.2, 3DNow! - all assembler, ARM) | Yes | Yes | |
| HT Editor | > 200GB | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes (x86, ARM, PowerPC) | |||||
| i.Hex | unlimited | Yes | No | Yes | No | ASCII | No | Yes | No | ||||
| iBored | unlimited | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes (block level only) | ANSI | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| javahexeditor | unlimited | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ASCII, ANSI | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| KHexEdit | limited by free RAM | ANSI, ASCII, EBCDIC. | No | ||||||||||
| MadEdit | 32 GB | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, ASCII, Macintosh, Shift JIS, GBK, EUC, Big5, Unicode | Yes | No | No | No | Yes (Replace) | |
| Notepad++ | Not unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| shed | 2 GB | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ASCII | No | No | No | |||
| Okteta | limited by free RAM | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, ASCII, EBCDIC, many others | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Synalyze It! | unlimited | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, all ICU encodings | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| tiny hexer | 2 GB | No | Partial (only Windows NT and up) | Yes | No | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh, custom | Yes | Yes | No | Partial (same size) | No | |
| TurboHex | unlimited | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ANSI, ASCII | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| VEDIT | 2 GB (standard), unlimited (Pro 64) | Yes | Partial (DOS version only) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, custom | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| UltraEdit | >4 GB | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Mac, Unix, UTF-8 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| webhex.net | 2 MB | No | No | No | No | No | ASCII | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| WinHex | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial (external: notepad) | Yes | Partial support of these formats: ANSI, UNICODE, OEM, UTF-8/UTF-16 EBCDIC, ASCII | Yes | Yes | Partial (Only x86 Intel opcodes) | Yes | Yes (Replace) | |
| wxHexEditor | unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ASCII, ANSI, Unicode, OEM, ISO, MAC, UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32, EBCDIC, KOI8, Arabic, Hebrew, Shift JIS, GBK, EUC, Big5 and many others. | Yes | No | Yes (x86, x86-64, 3DNow!, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD-V, Intel VT-x) | Yes | Yes (Replace) | Yes |
| XVI32 | 2 GB | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ANSI | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Maximum file size | Partial file loading | Disk sector editing | Bit editing | Text editor | Insert / Delete bytes | Character encodings(ao) | Search Unicode | File structure view | Disassembler | File Compare | Find in Files | Bookmarks |
Notes and references
Notes
ao: ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII.
References
- ↑ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
- ↑ 010 Editor features, retrieved 2007-11-29
- ↑ HxD features
- ↑ HHD Software Hex Editor Neo edition comparison table, retrieved 2012-05-31
See also
- Hex editor
- Comparison of