Comparison of hex editors
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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 | 2.5.0.0 | February 11, 2021 | Win95, WinNT4 and up | No | No |
| 010 Editor | Yes | No | Proprietary | 16.0.4 | March 5, 2026 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| beye | No | Yes | GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only | 6.1.0 | December 12, 2009 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cheat Engine | Yes | No | Proprietary freeware | 7.2 | August 14, 2021 | Yes | Yes, ver. 6.2 | No |
| GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes | GPL-3.0-or-later | 29.1[1] | July 30, 2023 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FlexHex | Yes | No | Proprietary freeware for personal use | 2.7 | October 12, 2018 | Windows XP and up | No | No |
| Hiew | No | Yes | Proprietary | 8.81 | March 24, 2024 | Yes | No | No |
| ImHex | Yes | Yes | GPL-2.0-only | 1.37.4 | February 26, 2025[2] | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | 21.0 | December 13, 2023 | Win95 and up | No | No |
| Vim | Yes | Yes | Vim | 9.1.0[3] | January 2, 2024 | 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 formats | Disassembler | File compare | Find in files | Bookmarks | Macro | Text editor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HxD | 8 EiB[4] | Yes | Windows 9x/NT and up | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, ASCII, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh | Yes | No | Individual instructions only | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| 010 Editor | 8 EiB | Yes | Yes | WinNT only | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Custom | Yes | 300 [5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| beye | 8 PiB | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ANSI, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh | Yes | 29 [6] | AVR, Java, x86, i386, x86-64, ARM/XScale, PowerPC, PPC64 | Yes | No | |||||
| Emacs | Limited by RAM[7][8][9][10] | No | Unknown | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes[11] | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes[12] | Yes |
| FlexHex | Unlimited[citation needed] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, UTF-16 | Yes | 2 [13][14] | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
| Hiew | Unlimited[citation needed] | Yes | WinNT only | Yes | Yes | Yes | ASCII, OEM, Unicode, custom | Yes | No | 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 | No | 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 | 44 [15][16] | Only x86 Intel opcodes | Yes | Yes and replace | Yes[17] | No | ||
| vim | Limited by RAM | No | No | No | No | Yes[18] | Yes | ASCII, ISO-8859, DOS (OEM), UTF-8, UTF-16, partial EBCDIC (compilation required), unicode | Yes | No | No | Yes[19] | No | Plug-in[20] | Yes | Yes |
| ImHex | Unlimited | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Shift-JIS, Custom | Yes | 143 [21] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 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 formats | Disassembler | File compare | Find in files | Bookmarks | Macro | Text editor |