What is Hex Fiend?
Fast and clever open source hex editor.
Verified product facts
- Type
- developer toolEditorially reviewed
- Platform
- macOS
- Pricing
- Open sourceDeveloper-stated
- Open source
- Yes
- Relationship to Nuanyue
- Third-party product — not published by NuanyueEditorially reviewed
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause
- Current version
- 2.18.1Developer-stated
- Official website
- ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
Last reviewed . Facts marked developer-stated come from the developer and are not independently confirmed; editorially reviewed marks a Nuanyue judgement.
Key features
What Hex Fiend does at a glance.
Insert, delete, rearrange
Hex Fiend does not limit you to in-place changes like some hex editors
Work with huge files. Hex Fiend can handle as big a file as you’re able to create. It’s been tested on files as large as 118 GB
Small footprint. Hex Fiend does not keep your files in memory. You won’t dread launching or working with Hex Fiend even on low-RAM machines
Fast. Open a huge file, scroll around, copy and paste, all instantly. Find what you’re looking for with fast searching
Smart saving
Hex Fiend knows not to waste time overwriting the parts of your files that haven’t changed, and never needs temporary disk space
Data inspector
Interpret data as integer or floating point, signed or unsigned, big or little endian
Overview
Fast and clever open source hex editor.
Hex Fiend runs on macOS and is listed on Nuanyue in the developer tools category.
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