Comparison of hex editors

The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.

General

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[3]	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	233 [4]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
beye	8 PiB	Yes	No			Yes	Yes	ANSI, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintosh	Yes	29 [5]	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	2.3 EB[6][7][8][9]		Unknown	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes[10]	Unknown	No	No	Unknown	Unknown	Yes[11]	Yes
FlexHex	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	ANSI, OEM, UTF-16	Yes	2 [12][13]	No	Yes	No	Yes		No
Frhed	Limited by RAM	Yes	No(read only)			Yes	Yes	ANSI, OEM	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Hiew	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	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial support of these formats: ANSI, UNICODE, OEM, UTF-8/UTF-16, EBCDIC, ASCII	Yes	44 [14][15]	Only x86 Intel opcodes	Yes	Yes and replace		Yes[16]	No
vim	Limited by RAM	No	No	No	No	Yes[17]	Yes	ASCII, ISO-8859, DOS (OEM), UTF-8, UTF-16, partial EBCDIC (compilation required), unicode	Yes	No	No	Yes[18]	No	Plug-in[19]	Yes	Yes
ImHex	16 EiB	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	ANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Shift-JIS, Custom	Yes	65 [20]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Binary Ninja	Limited by RAM	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes		Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Official plugin	Official plugins	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

See also

• Comparison of HTML editors
• Comparison of integrated development environments
• Comparison of text editors
• Comparison of word processors

Notes

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

References

External links

• "Harry's Windows Hex Editor Review" (July 2002). harrymnielsen.tripod.com. Retrieved October 15, 2019.

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