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Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor vs Hex Fiend: catalog facts
Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor	Hex Fiend
Free Free and open source under GPL-2.0.	Free Free and open source under the two-clause BSD licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	macOS
Designed around reverse engineering work Extensible with Lua plugins	Opens huge files without loading them into memory Insert and delete bytes, not just overwrite
More than a casual user needs for simple byte edits	macOS only Focused on editing rather than full reverse-engineering features
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: BSD-2-Clause
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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