Top 15 WinHex Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

WinHex is a hexadecimal editor capable of opening disks, sectors, files (native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, UFS, CDFS, UDF) and physical memory (RAM). It can read, write and extract data for a further forensic analysis.

To help the investigator it offers several data rescue techniques and implements the workflow of a forensic analysis.

Further information is available on WinHEX forum: http://www.winhex.net/

1. wxHexEditor

wxHexEditor wxHexEditor is an open source cross-platform disk/sector/file hex editor written in C++ with a wxWidgets-based user interface.Main features:- low memory usage- huge file/disk support (up to 2^64 bytes)- raw disk access- no temp files- UTF8/Unicode text search- file compare- MD/RIPEMD/SHA/Tiger/HAVAL/CRC/Adler/GOST/Whirlpool/Snefru hash generator- udis86 x86 disassembler......

2. 010 Editor

010 Editor 010 Editor is a professional text/hex editor designed to edit any file, drive, or process on your machine. Using Binary Templates technology, 010 Editor allows a binary file to be parsed into a data structure that can be understood. Features an editor with standard Cut, Copy, and Paste commands, support......

3. Fsum Frontend

Fsum Frontend GUI frontend for fsum – a hash calculator supporting a ton of algorithms. Fsum Frontend is a free and easy-to-use tool that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files and text strings. It supports drag-and-drop and you can handle multiple files at once. The checksum generated can......

4. DiskExplorer

DiskExplorer This is also a disk editor. It comes with a very clean and usable UI and offers comprehensive information about NTFS. You can use it to view and edit NTFS file system structures. It dissects all necessary information for you. Its a good tool to learn something about NTFS.......

5. MultiPar

MultiPar MultiPar does archival-grade file verification and repair to protect files from all forms of loss or corruption. Backups alone are not enough because data will gradually "rot" without MultiPar. Data loss can be caused by errors in backup copying, deletion, software bugs, hardware errors, viruses, tampering, etc. MultiPar can restore......

6. MadEdit-Mod

MadEdit-Mod Madedit-Mod is a cross platform text/hex editor based on MadEdit .Current Feature list:Original features from MadEdit(Hex Edit, Column Edit, many encodings support, etc) with lots of bug fixesMore encodings supported, eg, GB18030, CP874, CP866, KOI8-R and KOI8-U Macintosh encodings(Roman, Japanese, Chinese-trad, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai,......

7. AX64 Time Machine

AX64 Time Machine AX64 Time Machine is a backup and recovery software that enables an easy and fast way to restore your PC to an earlier point of time.Time Machine allows to quickly recover from: disk failures, system crashes, virus infections, unwanted program installations, etc. It securely backs up all your files, and......

8. Hasher

Hasher Hashing utility for verifying integrity of files using a wide range of supported algorithms: CRC32, MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, RipeMD128, RipeMD160, ED2K.All processed files are logged and ready for export to a number of different verification file formats: SFV, MD5SUM, SHA1SUM. Multiple hash types can be generated simultaneously......

9. Veeam Endpoint Backup Free Edition

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free Edition Veeam® Endpoint Backup™ FREE provides a simple solution for backing up Windows-based desktops and laptops. With Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, you can easily back up your PC to an external hard drive, NAS (network-attached storage) share or a Veeam Backup & Replication™ repository. And if your system crashes, hard drive......

10. TwistPad

TwistPad Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.Twistpad supports a full range of syntax highlighting (colored keywords) for the most popular formats out of the box (HTML, ASP,......

11. TestDisk

TestDisk TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk......

12. Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android

Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android Accidentally deleted messages or contacts on your Samsung handset? Or lost photos from the SD card on your Android device? No need to worry now! Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android is capable of recovering messages, contacts, photos, video, audio and documents on/from an Android phone or tablet. Due to the ease-to-use......

13. QJot

QJot QJot is a relatively small, completely USB portable, alternative rich text editor with Unicode support that saves .doc files, inserts images and more. Its native format is RTF, but it can open, edit and save Word and WordPerfect files (though not with all of their features). It can be used......

14. Recuva

Recuva Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It......

15. R-Drive Image

R-Drive Image R-Drive Image is a potent utility providing disk image files creation for backup or duplication purposes. A disk image file contains the exact, byte-by-byte copy of a hard drive, partition or logical disk and can be created with various compression levels on the fly without stopping Windows OS and therefore......