Free Hex Editors

Here are some free (mostly open source) hex editors:

  • HexEdit from Expert Commercial Software: Some free and with-source versions, also newer commercial versions. Looks full-featured.
  • Hexplorer: Sourceforge project under GPL license, has some interesting features like pixel view and colour schemes.
  • frhed from Raihan Kibria: Now a SourceForge project under GPL taking on some features and fixes from other derivatives like HexSource below.
  • HexSource from brixoft: Updates to frhed under the GPL license.
  • HexEdit from James Brown (a.k.a. Catch22 Productions): Nice hex editor with a file size limit of 4Gb (on 32-bit windows). Not open source, but there is a tutorial showing development of a large file hex viewer component which is better than nothing!

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  1. Neil T.
    July 27, 2006 at 10:25 pm

    At university we use WinHex, which isn’t free (especially the Forensic version that we use) but it’s good.