The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.
General[edit]
| GUI | Console | Software license | Latest stable version | Latest release date | Windows | Macintosh | Linux | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HxD | Yes | No | Proprietary (Freeware) | 2.4.0.0 | February 28, 2020 | Win95, WinNT4 and up | No | No |
| 010 Editor | Yes | No | Proprietary | 10.0.1 | February 14, 2020 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| beye | No | Yes | GPL | 6.1.0 | December 12, 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| bvi | No | Yes | GPL | 1.4.0 | October 7, 2014 | DOS, Win95 and up | Yes | Yes |
| Cheat Engine | Yes | No | APL | 6.8.1 | June 23, 2018 | Yes | Yes, ver. 6.2 | No |
| GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes | GPL | 26.2[1] | April 12, 2019 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FlexHex | Yes | No | Proprietary (free for non-commercial use) | 2.7 | October 12, 2018 | Windows XP and up | No | No |
| Frhed (Free Hex Editor) | Yes | No | GPL | 1.7.1 | July 30, 2009 | Win98 and up | No | No |
| Hiew | No | Yes | Proprietary | 8.68 | August 1, 2019 | Yes | No | No |
| VEDIT | Yes | Yes | Proprietary | 6.24.2 | Jan 1, 2015 | Yes | No | No |
| UltraEdit | Yes | No | Proprietary | 26.10 (Windows) 18.0 (Linux / Mac OS X) | May 7, 2019 January 2, 2018 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WinHex | Yes | No | Proprietary | 19.7 | August 19, 2018 | Win95 and up | No | No |
| vim | Yes | Yes | GPL compatible | 8.1.0000 | May 17, 2018 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Features[edit]
- HxD Hex Editor is a freeware to edit HEX files. It is a simple hex editor and lets you.
- Hex Editor Neo Ultimate 6.52 free download latest version for windows. It is the full offline standalone setup of Hex Editor Neo Ultimate 6.52 for windows 32-bit and 64-bit OS. This is remarkable software that allows the user to edit your binary files through windows.
- Online Hex Editor. Offset size type name value # start end size type data; 1: 0: 4: 5.
- Proprietary (free for non-commercial use) 2.7 October 12, 2018: Windows XP and up No No Frhed (Free Hex Editor) Yes No GPL: 1.7.1 July 30, 2009: Win98 and up No No Hiew: No Yes Proprietary: 8.68 August 1, 2019: Yes No No VEDIT: Yes Yes Proprietary: 6.24.2 Jan 1, 2015: Yes No No UltraEdit: Yes No Proprietary: 26.10 (Windows) 18.0 (Linux / Mac OS.
| Maximum file size | Partial file loading | Disk sector editing | Process memory editing | Data inspector | Bit editing | Insert/delete bytes | Character encodings(ao) | Search Unicode | File structure view | Disassembler | File compare | Find in files | Bookmarks | Macro | Text editor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HxD | 8 EiB[2] | Yes | Windows 9x/NT and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, ASCII, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 010 Editor | 8 EiB | Yes | Yes | WinNT only | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Custom | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| beye | 8 PiB | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ANSI, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh | Yes | AVR, Java, x86, i386, x86-64, ARM/XScale, PowerPC, PPC64 | Yes | No | ||||||
| bvi | Limited by RAM | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, ASCII | No | No | Yes and replace | Yes | |||||||
| Emacs | Limited by RAM | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| FlexHex | Unlimited[citation needed] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, UTF-16 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
| Frhed | Limited by RAM | Yes | No(read only) | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |||
| Hiew | Unlimited[citation needed] | Yes | WinNT only | Yes | Yes | Yes | ASCII,OEM, Unicode,Custom | Yes | Yes | x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE 4.2, 3DNow! - all assembler, ARM | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| VEDIT | Standard, 2 GiB, Pro 64, unlimited[citation needed] | Yes | DOS version only | No | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, custom | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| UltraEdit | >4 GiB | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Mac, Unix, UTF-8 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| WinHex | Unlimited[citation needed] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial support of these formats: ANSI, UNICODE, OEM, UTF-8/UTF-16, EBCDIC, ASCII | Yes | Yes | Only x86 Intel opcodes | Yes | Yes and replace | Yes[3] | No | ||
| vim | Limited by RAM | No | No | No | No | Yes[4] | Yes | ASCII, ISO-8859, DOS (OEM), UTF-8, UTF-16, partial EBCDIC (compilation required), unicode | Yes | No | No | Yes[5] | No | Plug-in[6] | Yes | Yes |
| Maximum file size | Partial file loading | Disk sector editing | Process memory editing | Data inspector | Bit editing | Insert/delete bytes | Character encodings(ao) | Search Unicode | File structure view | Disassembler | File compare | Find in files | Bookmarks | Macro | Text editor |
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
ao:ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII.
References[edit]
- ^'GNU Emacs'. GNU.org. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
- ^HxD features
- ^WinHex: Scripting
- ^:help eval
- ^vimdiff
- ^vim-bookmarks
External links[edit]
- 'Harry's Windows Hex Editor Review' (July 2002). harrymnielsen.tripod.com. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.
The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.
Hex Editor Neo Ultimate
Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.
For example, drives and memory are presented similar to a file and are shown as a whole, in contrast to a sector/region-limited view that cuts off data which potentially belongs together. Drives and memory can be edited the same way as a regular file including support for undo. In addition memory-sections define a foldable region and inaccessible sections are hidden by default.
Hhd Hex Editor Neo
Furthermore a lot of effort was put into making operations fast and efficient, instead of forcing you to use specialized functions for technical reasons or arbitrarily limiting file sizes. This includes a responsive interface and progress indicators for lengthy operations.
Features
Free Hex Editor
- Available as a portable and installable edition
- RAM-Editor
- To edit the main memory
- Memory sections are tagged with or 'text only'-modes
- Progress-window for lengthy operations
- Shows the remaining time
- Button to cancel
- Modified data is highlighted
- Unlimited undo
- 'Find updates...'-function
- Easy to use and modern interface
- Goto address
- Printing
- Overwrite or insert mode
- Cut, copy, paste insert, paste write
- Clipboard support for other hex editors
- Visual Studio/Visual C++, WinHex, HexWorkshop, ...
- Bookmarks
- Ctrl+Shift+Number (0-9) sets a bookmark
- Ctrl+Number (0-9) goes to a bookmark
- Navigating to nibbles with Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right
- Flicker free display and fast drawing
Version 2.4.0.0 (February 28, 2020)What's new? OS Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 8 or 10 Version 1.7.7.0 (April 3, 2009)What's new? OS Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, or 7 License
HxD is free of charge for private and commercial use. Selling HxD is not allowed. Distributing it as part of magazine addon CDs / DVDs / other media or putting it on download portals or private websites is allowed and welcome. For details, please see the HxD License.
What's new
Notes
Disk-Editor
To use the disk editor under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 and higher you have to be an administrator or have the appropriate privileges.
Starting with Vista you need to manually unmount the hard disk to successfully write to it, or in other words: make sure the disk you edit has no mounted file system. More details in this forum thread. A system drive (the one where Windows is installed on) cannot be written to while Windows is running. In order to still accomplish that, you will have to execute HxD from a boot CD/DVD like PartBE or VistaPE and edit the system disk from there.
Windows NT 4
If the RAM-editor doesn't show any processes under Windows NT 4 you most likely don't have PSAPI.DLL installed on your system. You can get it from Microsoft (PSAPI.DLL Download) and copy the DLL into the %windir%System directory.
HxD was only tested for Windows NT 4 SP 6, though it should work with versions prior to service pack 6.Windown NT 4 SP1 and newer are also supported, if WININET.DLL is added, through IE 3.02 or newer.
Articles about HxD
Translators
Thanks to the translators, HxD is available in many languages.More useful links
- Interesting pages about data recovery, disk structure, boot managers, hex editing, assembler and other low level stuff:
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