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Hex Editor

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Console Hex Editors

October 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, TUI

A hex editor is a special type of editor that can open any type of file and display its contents, byte by byte.

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Hex Editor

HexPatch – binary patcher and editor with TUI

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

HexPatch is a Rust TUI binary editor and patcher with disassembly, assembly, SSH editing, Lua plugins and broad executable format support.

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Hex Editor

dz6 – Vim-inspired terminal hex editor

September 28, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

dz6 is a fast Vim-inspired terminal hex editor for inspecting and editing binary files with search, bookmarks, comments and header parsing.

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Hex Editor

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Hex Editors

August 13, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

A hex editor is a special type of editor that can open any type of file and display its contents, byte by byte. This type of editor lets you view and edit binary files.

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Q22 – cross-platform binary file editor

August 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Q22 is a cross-platform binary file editor and the successor to Catch22 HexEdit.

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XVI – hex editor using ncurses

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

xvi is a hex editor that uses an ncurses-based interface and is designed for interactive binary file editing from the console.

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hexcurse-ng – ncurses-based console hex editor

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

hexcurse-ng is an ncurses-based console hex editor for working with binary data in a terminal.

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Hexit – minimalistic hex editor

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hexit is a terminal-based hex editor written in C++ for inspecting and editing binary data from a text user interface.

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Hex Editor

HexMe – hex editor

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

HexMe is a terminal-based hex editor written in C++ that uses the Curses library for its text user interface.

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Hex Editor

HexWalk – hex editor, viewer, and analyzer

March 9, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

HexWalk is a graphical hex editor and binary analysis application designed for inspecting and modifying binary files.

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Hex Editor

bvi – hex editor

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

bvi is a vi-style terminal hex editor for binary files with familiar navigation, editing commands and a companion read-only viewer.

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Hex Editor

Hextazy – colorful hexadecimal editor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hextazy is a colourful terminal hex editor with hex and ASCII editing, search, insert and overwrite modes, undo, redo and an inspector.

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Hex Editor

rehex – hex editor for reverse engineering

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

rehex is a cross-platform hex editor for reverse engineering and everything else.

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hexhog – configurable hex viewer and editor

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hexhog offers basic hex editing features for files, such as editing/deleting/inserting bytes, as well as selecting and copy/pasting bytes.

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ddhx – hex editor

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

ddhx is a modal terminal hex editor with large-file support, range operations, bookmarks, multiple character sets and powerful searching.

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Hex Editor

hx – hex editor for the terminal

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hx is a hex editor using plain C and POSIX libs. The project’s code is somewhat influenced by the kilo project.

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fileobj – ncurses based hex editor

February 13, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

fileobj is an ncurses hex editor with a vi-style interface, multiple buffers and windows, partial loading, block-device support and undo.

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Chirurgien – hex editor

February 11, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Chirurgien is an hex editor and a tool for reverse engineering, analyzing, and carving binary file formats.

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Hex Editor

BinEd – binary / hex editor

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

BinEd is an editor for binary data (hex viewer/editor). It’s written in Java so runs under a wide range of platforms.

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hexer – multi-buffer editor for binary files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hexer is a Vi-like multi-buffer binary editor with multi-level undo, command completion, binary regular expressions and large-file support.

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