Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to WinHex

Product categories

Code Analysis Coding Debugger Decompiler Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors OS & Utilities Programming SRE Software Development Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to WinHex are ImHex, Kaitai Struct, and Binary Ninja. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

ImHex Landing Page
1

ImHex

ImHex is a free, featureful Hex Editor with many tools often only found in paid products. It includes a custom built scripting language for highlighting and decoding binary data, a disassembler, extensive file analysis tools and much much more
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Software Development #Text Editors 6 social mentions
Kaitai Struct Landing Page
2

Kaitai Struct

Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Software Development #Text Editors 33 social mentions
Binary Ninja Landing Page
3

Binary Ninja

A reverse engineering platform and GUI
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Software Development #Decompiler 9 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
4

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Ghidra Landing Page
5

Ghidra

Software Reverse Engineering (SRE) Framework
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Software Development #SRE 64 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
6

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Hexalinq Binary Workbench Landing Page
7

Hexalinq Binary Workbench

Disassemble, patch, and compile executable files online.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Code Analysis #Decompiler #Debugger
GNU Emacs Landing Page
8

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
PE-bear Landing Page
9

PE-bear

PE-bear is a reversing tool for PE files.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Software Development #Developer Tools
innoextract Landing Page
10

innoextract

A tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Software Development #Developer Tools 15 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
11

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
12

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1010 social mentions