Comparison of hex editors

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[edit] General

Type Software license Cost Latest version Latest release date Windows Macintosh Linux
0xED GUI Proprietary (Freeware) 0 1.0.7 02009-01-15 January 15, 2009 No Yes (Mac OS X) No
HxD GUI Proprietary (Freeware) 0 1.7.7.0 02009-04-03 April 3, 2009 Yes (Win95, WinNT4 and up) No No
010 Editor GUI Proprietary USD 130 3.0.5 Yes (Win98 and up) No No
AptEdit GUI Proprietary USD 44.95 4.8.1 Yes (Win2000 and up) No No
AXE Proprietary USD 35 3.4 Yes (Win95 and up) No No
AviHex GUI Proprietary (Freeware) 0 2.4.0c 02008-06-20 June 20, 2008 Yes No No
Be.HexEditor GUI Proprietary 0 1.3 02008-03-07 March 07, 2008 Yes (Win2k and up) No No
BIEW Console GPL 0 5.7.2 02009-01-11 January 11, 2009 Yes Yes Yes
Binary Viewer Free GUI Proprietary (Freeware) 0 1.0.0 02008-12-11 December 11, 2008 Yes No No
Binary Viewer Pro GUI Proprietary USD 10 1.0.0 02008-12-26 December 26, 2008 Yes No No
Bless GUI GPL 0 0.6.0 02008-08-14 August 14, 2008 Yes (Mono/.NET) Yes (Mono) Yes (Mono)
bvi Console GPL 0 1.3.2 02004-02-13 February 13, 2004 Yes (DOS, Win95 and up) Yes Yes
Catch22 Hexedit Proprietary 0 1.2.1 02007-02-15 February 15, 2007 Yes (Win95 and up) No No
Cygnus Hex Editor Proprietary USD 39 2.50 Yes (WinNT4 and up) No No
Cygnus Hex Editor FREE EDITION Proprietary (Freeware) 0 1.00 Yes (Win95 and up) No No
DataWorkshop GUI GPL 0 1.1.1 Yes Yes Yes
EditPad Pro GUI Proprietary USD 50 6.4.1 02008-03-12 March 12, 2008 Yes (Win98 and up) No No
Emacs Console/GUI GPL 0 22.3 02008-09-05 September 5, 2008 Yes Yes Yes
febooti fileTweak Hex Editor Proprietary 0 2.0 02006-10 October 2006 Yes (Win95 and up) No No
FlexHex GUI Proprietary USD 40 2.60 02008-09-16 September 16, 2008 Yes (WinNT4 and up) No No
Frhed (Free Hex Editor) GUI GPL 0 1.6.0 02009-06-23 June 23, 2009 Yes (Win98 and up) No No
GHex GUI GPL 0 2.22.0 02008-04-10 April 10, 2008 No No Yes
Hackman Hex Editor Professional Proprietary USD 30 9.01 02007-06-05 June 5, 2007 Yes No No
HEdit Proprietary 0 3.0.0.1 02004-05-10 May 10, 2004 Yes No No
heme Console GPL 0 0.4.2 02006-11-22 November 22, 2006 No No Yes
HexCurse Console GPL 0 1.55 02003-12-22 December 22, 2003 No No Yes
Hex Edit GUI Proprietary USD 40 3.4 02009-04-29 April 29, 2009 Yes No No
Hex Edit Free GUI Proprietary 0 3.0F 02009-05-13 May 13, 2009 Yes No No
HexEdit by Lane Roathe MPL 0 2.20 02008-01-28 January 28, 2008 No Yes (680x0/PowerPC) No
HexEdit by Geoffrey Prewett GUI Proprietary (Freeware) 0 1.03 01998 1998 Yes No No
hexedit Console GPL 0 1.2.12 02006-11-26 November 26, 2006 No No Yes
Hex Fiend Console Proprietary 0 1.1.1 02006-11-07 November 7, 2006 No Yes No
HexIt Console Proprietary
(sourcecode included)		 0 1.57 02006-12-08 December 8, 2006 Yes (DOS, Win95 and up) No No
Hexplorer GUI GPL 0 2.6 02006-01-25 January 25, 2006 Yes (Win95 and up) No No
Hexprobe Hex Editor GUI Proprietary USD 40 4.3 02008-06-15 June 15, 2008 Yes (Win95 and up) No No
Hex Workshop GUI Proprietary USD 90 6.0.1 02009-01-04 January 4, 2009 Yes (Win2K and up) No No
HHD Software
Free Hex Editor Neo		 GUI Proprietary 0 4.85 02009-06-30 June 30, 2009 Yes (Win2K and up) No No
HHD Software
Hex Editor Neo		 GUI Proprietary USD 25 - 80 4.85 02009-06-30 June 30, 2009 Yes (Win2K and up) No No
Hiew Console Proprietary USD 64-199 8.00 02009-01-29 January 29, 2009 Yes No No
HT Editor Console GPL 0 2.0.13 02008-04-23 April 23, 2008 Yes No Yes
i.Hex GUI Proprietary 0 0.95 02007-10-04 October 4, 2007 Yes No Yes
iBored GUI Proprietary (Freeware) 0 1.1 02009-01-17 January 17, 2009 Yes Yes Yes
KHexEdit GUI GPL 0 0.8.5 01999-12-14 December 14, 1999 No No Yes
MadEdit GUI GPL 0 0.2.8 beta 02007-10-08 October 8, 2007 Yes Yes Yes
Notepad++ (with Hex Editor Plugin) GUI GPL 0 5.3.1 02009-03-28 March 28, 2009 Yes No No
Okteta GUI GPL 0 0.2.0 02009-01-27 January 27, 2009 Yes Yes Yes
shed Console GPL 0 1.13 02006-07-11 July 11, 2006 No Yes Yes
tiny hexer GUI Proprietary (Freeware) 0 1.8.1.6 02007-07-03 July 3, 2007, not developed anymore Yes (Win98 and up) No No
VEDIT Console/GUI Proprietary USD 89 6.15.2 02008-02-04 February 4, 2008 Yes No No
webhex.net GUI none (web application) 0 Yes Yes Yes
WinHex GUI Proprietary EUR 43 - 146 15.1 02008-09-03 September 3, 2008 Yes (Win95 and up) No Partial (Linux detected in Wine)
wxHexEditor GUI GPL 0 0.07 Alpha 02009-02-22 February 22, 2009 Not yet Yes Yes
XVI32 executable Proprietary (Freeware) 0 2.51 02003-08-02 August 2, 2003 Yes (Win95 and up) No No
Type Software license Cost Latest version Latest release date Windows Macintosh Linux

[edit] 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
0xED unlimited Yes Yes Yes ASCII, UTF-8/UTF-16 encoded Unicode, ISO-Latin-1, Macintosh No No
HxD unlimited [1] Yes Yes (Windows 9x/NT and up) No No Yes ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh Yes No No Yes No Yes
010 Editor unlimited Yes Partial (only Windows NT and up[2]) Yes Yes Yes ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh Yes Yes 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 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Be.HexEditor unlimited Yes No No No Yes No No No No No
BIEW 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
bvi unlimited Yes Yes Yes Yes ANSI, ASCII No No
Catch22 HexEdit 4 GB Yes No No No Yes ANSI 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 No
Emacs
febooti fileTweak Hex Editor 2 GB No No No No ANSI No No
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 limited by free RAM No No No Yes Yes ASCII No No No
Hackman Hex Editor Professional unlimited Yes Yes No No ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh, custom Yes Yes Yes (AVR, Java, x86, Pentium III, Pentium 4-Prescott, Athlon-K7, Athlon 64, Cyrix-M2) No
HEdit > 2 GB Yes No No No Yes ANSI, EBCDIC No
heme 2 GB No No Yes No ANSI No No No
HexCurse
Hex Edit unlimited Yes Partial (9X/NT: vol, NT: raw) Yes Partial (external: notepad) Yes ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
Hex Edit Free unlimited Yes No Yes Partial (external: notepad) Yes ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
HexEdit by Lane Roathe Yes Yes Yes (PowerPC)
hexedit
Hex Fiend unlimited No No No No No ANSI No No No No No No
HexIt limited by free RAM No No No Yes No Yes (x86, Pentium II-Deschutes, AMD K6-2)
Hexplorer 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 No Yes
HHD Software Free Hex Editor Neo unlimited[3] Yes No No No Yes ANSI, Unicode[4] Yes No No No No No
HHD Software Hex Editor Neo unlimited Yes Partial (only Windows NT and up) Yes No Yes ANSI, Unicode, ASCII, OEM, ISO, EBCDIC, MAC, UTF7/UTF8 (Export), KOI8, ISCII, EUC, Arabic, Others[4] Yes Yes Yes (x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow!, MSIL) Yes Yes (Replace) Yes
Hiew Yes No Yes No Yes ASCII Yes Yes Yes (x86, x86-64) 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 UTF-8 Yes Yes 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 Yes No No No Yes (Replace)
Notepad++ 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 No No No No Yes
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
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
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 No No No No No No No No Yes
XVI32 2 GB No No Yes No Yes ANSI Yes No No 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

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] Notes

ao: ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII.

[edit] References

  1. ^ HxD features
  2. ^ 010 Editor features, retrieved 2007-11-29
  3. ^ HHD Software Hex Editor Neo edition comparison table, retrieved 2009-06-08
  4. ^ a b Hex Editor Neo Documentation: depends on installed Windows code pages and fonts.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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