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🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

35 mentions on Hacker News by 34 people: 8 stories, 27 comments · first 2020-12-04 · latest 2026-08-25

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  1. I've been using ImHex[0] for this purpose, to pretty good effect. [0]: https://github.com/werwolv/imhex
    comment by pdpi · 2026-08-25 · in Visualizing Binary Files
  2. …the hexdump and parses it in a structured way while you type. It also has a node based editor. 1: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by cuechan · 2026-04-23 · in Your hex editor should color-code bytes
  3. …Also the hex editor I am currently using, despite some problems: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex An example of an information dense GUI that might be a bit overwhelming is Ghidra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra (page
    comment by rft · 2025-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
  4. …https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor... - https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex 3D modeling / CAD software: - Blender/Rhino etc - Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' (…
    comment by chromy · 2025-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
  5. Imhex is a really great frontend for Capstone. https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by deoxykev · 2024-09-25 · in Capstone Disassembler Framework
  6. …: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing * unblob - https://github.com/onekey-sec/unblob * ImHex - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex * GNU Poke - https://www.gnu.org/software/poke/ * dtrx - https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx/ dtrx * feng -…
    comment by turtledragonfly · 2024-07-25 · in Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis
  7. Maybe create an issue saying as much? https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/issues
    comment by pengaru · 2024-06-29 · in Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers
  8. https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex Oooh that looks slick, thanks for the tip!
    comment by mostthingsweb · 2024-06-29 · in Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers
  9. https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828493 ) is a hex editor specially made for people that do exactly that kind of binary editing.
    comment by fragmede · 2024-06-29 · in Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God'
  10. …https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor/blob/master/src/HexEditor... ) A good replacement is ImHex ( https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex ). Which does the job really well.
    comment by reflexe · 2024-05-18 · in wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices
  11. …able to see what structures they represent and what data was on those structures was very useful! https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by _benj · 2024-03-07 · in Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?
  12. …supports this. It's called out in their README under Data Searching, called Sequence Search . https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/blob/v1.32.2/README.md?plai...
    comment by mh- · 2024-02-20 · in HexWalk – Hex Editor/Viewer/Analyzer
  13. Any comparison to ImHex? https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by vvvvvvvvvvvv · 2024-02-20 · in HexWalk – Hex Editor/Viewer/Analyzer
  14. I didn't use RemedyBG or Tracy, but I did try ImHex ( https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex ) and it loaded 12% of the CPU because everything is being repainted 60 times per second. Heck, it even has an option to limit the FPS, which solves the…
    comment by danpla · 2024-01-16 · in Immediate Mode GUI Programming
  15. …I stumbled upon some limitations with it but it was still useful. [1]: https://kaitai.io/ [2]: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex [3]: https://docs.werwolv.net/pattern-language/
    comment by vg_head · 2023-12-30 · in Parsing an Undocumented File Format
  16. ImGui is brilliant. I can highly recommend this hex editor built using it: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by cedws · 2023-12-20 · in Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++
  17. …hex editor that supports file patterns. The gif pattern is one of the patterns already available: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by spuz · 2023-11-30 · in The weirdest bug I've seen yet
  18. I suggest https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex instead
    comment by wsxarcher · 2023-11-05 · in Hexabyte – A modern, robust, and extensible commandline hex editor
  19. …again and it's not a great experience. I expected better in 2023 and here it is. I will explore but https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/blob/c2e023f567d4e838ea69e6... this makes me super-duper hopeful. UTF-8 capable ex viewer, that'd be handy…
    comment by chx · 2023-06-17 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized output
  20. …a true Hex Editor (or better, Hex IDE), I strongly suggest you to take a look ad ImHex [1]. [1]: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by denysvitali · 2023-06-16 · in Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized output
  21. You might be interested in ImHex https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex Seems similar to Hexfiend but cross platform and very powerful. I have never used Hexfiend though, so can't really compare. Just going by the GitHub readme.
    comment by lars_francke · 2023-06-04 · in GNU poke: an extensible editor for structured binary data
  22. I'd also like to throw https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex in the mix here.
    comment by _pmf_ · 2023-06-03 · in Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
  23. …://murmelbahn.fly.dev/course/83JFIBBI7H/dump [7] https://murmelbahn.fly.dev/course/83JFIBBI7H/bom [8] https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsglFJWVTMg
    comment by lars_francke · 2023-02-09 · in Show HN: Murmelbahn - Reverse engineered the Gravitrax course file format
  24. …from dd images, though it can be laggy sometimes when walking through a couple GBs of data. [1] https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
    comment by cookiengineer · 2022-09-05 · in Ask HN: What software do you use to examine binary files?
  25. …anti-aliasing is on by default for custom-chosen fonts, maybe one of those will work better? [1] https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/issues/431
    comment by nighthawk454 · 2022-07-31 · in ImHex – A Hex Editor
  26. …I remembered it incorrectly. Here's what the developer said when I asked for this. (it's coming) https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/issues/22
    comment by naikrovek · 2020-12-10 · in ImHex – A Hex Editor
  27. …object file: No such file or directory [0] https://buildkite.com/solemnwarning/rehex/builds [1] https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/releases
    comment by app4soft · 2020-12-09 · in ImHex – A Hex Editor