Bless vs HexEd.it
Bless
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| Figure | Bless | HexEd.it |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Hex Editors | 7.9 (#9) | 8.7 (#3) |
| Editing tools | It supports multilevel undo and redo, customizable data views, multiple tabs, and fast find and replace. | The editor provides an editable hexadecimal grid, text representations in more than 50 encodings, insertion and deletion, saving, loading and drag-and-drop. |
| Large files | The project lists efficient editing of large data files as a main feature. | The manual says chunked loading has been tested with files as large as 150 GiB, while the feature page describes handling files up to several terabytes. |
| Purpose | Bless is a binary (hex) editor for editing files as a sequence of bytes. | HexEd.it is a browser-based hex editor for analyzing and editing binary files and hexadecimal data. |
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In their own words
Bless
Bless is a free binary editor for editing files as sequences of bytes. It supports multilevel undo and redo, customizable data views, multiple tabs, and fast find and replace. The project highlights efficient handling of large data files and raw disk editing, with search and save operations running in multiple threads. Bless exports to text and HTML, while plugins can add other export formats and extend the editor. It is written in C# with Gtk# bindings for GTK+ and distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. GNU/Linux is the main target; listed supported platforms are Linux and Windows, and the README says it should also run on *BSD, Solaris, and Win32. Building the current version requires GTK+, a Mono/.NET runtime and C# compiler, Gtk# bindings, pkg-config, and Meson. The GitHub releases page has no releases, and the README provides source-build instructions. NEWS lists version 0.6.3 dated 2020-10-11. Saving a changed-size file under the same name requires temporary space for both files; same-size files save in place.
HexEd.it
HexEd.it is a browser-based editor for inspecting and changing binary files and hexadecimal data. Processing takes place in the browser, and the site says it does not send file data to its server. Once the app has been downloaded during a first visit, it can also work offline. Analysis and editing tools include viewing data in multiple numeric formats, bit-wise changes, search and replace, bookmarks, and multiple selections. HexEd.it can decode and encode Motorola S-Record and Intel HEX files, and identify more than 20,000 file types. Its hash lookup can query Google, VirusTotal, MetaDefender Cloud, BitBaan MALab, and Hybrid Analysis without uploading the file. The feature page says it can process files up to several terabytes; the manual reports testing on files up to 150 GiB. The site lists HTTPS, a restrictive Content Security Policy, Feature Policy, and Subresource Integrity as security measures. It is free for commercial and non-commercial use, but the maker says it is not open-source.