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Hex Fiend vs Okteta: catalog facts
Hex Fiend	Okteta
Free Free and open source under the two-clause BSD licence.	Free Free and open source, licensed under GPL-2.0 or GPL-3.0.
macOS	Linux
Opens huge files without loading them into memory Insert and delete bytes, not just overwrite	Structures tool for decoding binary formats with custom definitions Built-in checksum and hash calculator
macOS only Focused on editing rather than full reverse-engineering features	Best integrated with a KDE Plasma desktop Project wiki page is not kept up to date
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause	License: GPL-2.0 OR GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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