Comparison of hex editors
The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.
General
| 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 |
Features
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
References
- "GNU Emacs". GNU.org. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
- HxD features
- WinHex: Scripting
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- help eval
- vimdiff
- vim-bookmarks
External links
- "Harry's Windows Hex Editor Review" (July 2002). harrymnielsen.tripod.com. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
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