GNU hexedit vs Hexinator
GNU hexedit
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Hexinator
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| Figure | GNU hexedit | Hexinator |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Hex Editors | 7.6 (#13) | 7.9 (#10) |
| Purpose | GNU hexedit displays and edits files in hexadecimal and ASCII. | Hexinator is a desktop tool for analyzing, decoding, and editing binary files. |
| Support | The author asks users to report problems and welcomes remarks of any kind. | Hexinator offers public Q&A, bug tickets with tracking numbers and status updates, and direct email support; it says most email requests receive a response within a few hours. |
Plans
Hexinator
- Hexinator (academic/private use)$44.99, paid once
- Hexinator (commercial use)$89.99, paid once
In their own words
GNU hexedit
GNU hexedit is a free Linux terminal program for viewing and editing file contents as hexadecimal values or ASCII text. It can read a device piece at a time, search forward or backward for strings in either representation, and save edits. Selection commands allow marking, copying, pasting, saving a copied region to another file, and filling a selected area with a string. The --sector option displays whole sectors and makes scrolling advance sector by sector. Keyboard commands control the terminal interface; --color works only when supported by the operating system. Changes remain in memory until saved, so large fill operations may trigger a warning. Read-only files cannot be changed and are reported as non-writable. The author describes hexedit as open source under the GNU General Public License. The maker page links to source archive 1.6, while Git builds use ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make. It supports disk editing but has no binary comparison, templates, scripting, or plugins.