dhex vs MiTeC HexEdit
dhex
dettus.netMiTeC HexEdit
mitec.czSide by side
| Figure | dhex | MiTeC HexEdit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Hex Editors | 8.2 (#7) | 7.3 (#22) |
| Maker | The site's owner contact is Thomas Dettbarn, with a listed address in Fuerth, Germany. | MiTeC is a trademark of software engineer Michal Mutl, and its About page gives a Prague 10, Czech Republic address. |
| Support | The maker asks users to send themes to [email protected] and to include DHEX in the theme header. | MiTeC says email support is included for registered users and that it usually responds within one working day. |
| Supported systems | The maker says dhex is known to run on Linux, HP-UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, IRIX and Solaris. | The product page lists Microsoft Windows XP–11 and Windows Server 2003–2025 as supported operating systems. |
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In their own words
dhex
dhex is a free hex editor for inspecting binary files and comparing two of them in diff mode. It uses a terminal interface built on ncurses and is listed for Linux and macOS; the maker also says it is known to run on HP-UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, IRIX, and Solaris. Search logs can help track changes between file iterations, and the editor supports themes that users can download or submit to the maker. Command-line search can find single words and quoted strings. The .dhexrc configuration file can set header colors, while a base-address option can help when loading partial memory dumps. A correlator introduced in version 0.64 can help match an object file to an executable for comparison. The maker provides downloads including version 0.69, listed as the latest update for the 0.6x branch and dated 19 January 2019. The maker warns that version 0.64 crashes at startup on some systems. dhex is free, with no free trial.
MiTeC HexEdit
MiTeC HexEdit has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.