ImHex – A Hex Editor

Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak.<p>I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.

Thanks a lot for the love! If you have any feature requests, face any problems or have any questions, please open an issue on my GitHub page and I&#x27;ll make sure to look into it as soon as possible. There&#x27;s also a Discord server linked at the top of the Readme

Related:<p><i>ImHex – A Hex Editor</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25353965" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25353965</a> - Dec 2020 (78 comments)

I used it for some work recently. First it&#x27;s a bit sluggish, may be it&#x27;s the way UI is built. Secondly, earching in the binary is very basic atm. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexed.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexed.it</a> can search for a given value in lot more ways and also has some other features.<p>Defining data format as code is a very nice feature though.

Oh, looks neat. I&#x27;ve been looking for a cross-platform hex editor for simple editing (wxmedit kind of sucks on macos and had issues for a while now).<p>This seems to have some very powerful features, but sadly doesn&#x27;t support trivial editing stuff. Like when you have a simple text file and need to do some light unicode or other encoding fixups.<p>Like &quot;delete&#x2F;remove selection&quot; or &quot;type in ascii replacements for these bytes one after the other&quot;.<p>But I mean it&#x27;s open source, so if I somehow find the time I might add those.

This is a potential modern replacement for the 010 editor[1], which is kind of the standard hex editor for reverse engineering.<p>010 is great but also a bit dated[2] and clunky. I thought numerous times that a modern rewrite could be a nice project to work on. I&#x27;m happy that others tackled it! Kudos to the team.<p>One super cool feature would be if ImHex could read the 010 templates, but I&#x27;m not sure if that is legally OK. I&#x27;m not even sure if it would be morally OK, because I guess just as much work has gone into them as into the actual editor.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweetscape.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweetscape.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] It is actively maintained but looks old tech.

Nice. The one simple, but incredibly useful feature I personally can&#x27;t live without in hex editors is wildcard search like the one in 010 Editor. For instance, being able to search CB ?? FF and showing all matches

I wish they used Rizin[1] as a library to get the advantage of using mature analysis in addition to the simple disassembly, more architectures and formats, debugging, and decompilation plugins.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rizinorg&#x2F;rizin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rizinorg&#x2F;rizin</a>

Made with Dear ImGui. I&#x27;d recognize that font&#x2F;style anywhere.

Do all ImGui apps have text rendering this bad? I&#x27;m having trouble smoothly reading... any of the text, at least on Mac. It has a settings box, which allows you to change font size (but appears to do nothing), and a scaling option which ... just seems to make the artifacts bigger.<p>Switching to dark mode (by default it matched the system) made it slightly better just by virtue of having more contrast (and all the setting boxes actually have different coloured backgrounds that means you can tell where one ends and the other begins).<p>It would be nice to find a good replacement for 010.

Ah my first assembler program was a Z80 hex editor &lt;3

Looks incredible. It&#x27;s rare to see such a full featured open source replacement for an existing tool. Thank you.

OSX &gt;10,15<p>Might be helpful to mention system requirements, so people don&#x27;t waste their time downloading!

On Arch Linux KDE X11 with 100% display scaling and 120 font DPI, whenever I pop the hex editor view out of the main window, it&#x27;s missing a title bar by default, until I resize the popped-out view to around 2000 pixels tall.

This might have been a daily driver if whatever UI library being used wasn&#x27;t so quirky and unfriendly. Oh well. Looks &quot;leet&quot; or whatever, which is obviously more important.

ImHex is great, especially the pattern editor. Very useful for debugging custom binary formats besides just reverse engineering.

A very modest title for what looks like to be much move powerful than your average hex editor.

The AppImage is 79MB. Are Appimages usually this huge, even for immediate mode GUI apps?

I have no idea how to use ImHex.

Did imgui have a graph editor or that implemented within imhex itself?

Could you consider this a competitor to Ida, and alike applications?

This looks way better than hex-mode.

From Github:<p>&gt; 16K stars, 755 forks, 52 open, 354 closed issues<p>From the linked Patreon page:<p>&gt; 7 patrons, CA$36&#x2F;month<p>&gt; Next goal: CA$76.88 per month - I can pay all my monthly bills<p>This is why the open-source software is sad. The author will keep burning through his youthful energy in return for some words of appreciation (but much more issues and demands), and will at best quietly give up at some moment, or at worst freak out and have his colors&#x2F;faker moment [0].<p>At the same time, products like this create the expectations that some types of software should be free (i.e. subsidized by the author&#x27;s willingness to not have a life) and make it 10x harder for people like the author to turn their work into a revenue-generating business.<p>That said, if you have 16K stars on Github, you absolutely do have enough userbase to sell a paid premium edition and eventually grow it into your main job.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29863672" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=29863672</a>

Referring to the title: Is a hex editor useful for literally anybody else?<p>As a reverser it does seem amazing!