ImHex

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Notable Sponsors

| | | |:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | JetBrains, providing us with free All Products Pack licenses for development | | | SignPath, providing us with free Code Signing Certificates for our Windows builds | | | Amazon, providing us with free AWS Cloud Credits for our CI |

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Screenshots

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Features

<details> <summary><strong>Featureful hex view</strong></summary>

• Byte patching
• Patch management
• Infinite Undo/Redo
• "Copy bytes as..."
  • Bytes
  • Hex string
  • C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, Java & JavaScript array
  • ASCII-Art hex view
  • HTML self-contained div
• Simple string and hex search
• Goto from start, end and current cursor position
• Colorful highlighting
  • Configurable foreground highlighting rules
  • Background highlighting using patterns, find results and bookmarks
• Displaying data as a list of many different types
  • Hexadecimal integers (8, 16, 32, 64 bit)
  • Signed and unsigned decimal integers (8, 16, 32, 64 bit)
  • Floats (16, 32, 64 bit)
  • RGBA8 Colors
  • HexII
  • Binary
• Decoding data as ASCII and custom encodings
  • Built-in support for UTF-8, UTF-16, ShiftJIS, most Windows encodings and many more
• Paged data view

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Custom C++-like pattern language for parsing highlighting a file's content</strong></summary>

• Automatic loading based on MIME types and magic values
• Arrays, pointers, structs, unions, enums, bitfields, namespaces, little and big endian support, conditionals and much more!
• Useful error messages, syntax highlighting and error marking
• Support for visualizing many different types of data
  • Images
  • Audio
  • 3D Models
  • Coordinates
  • Time stamps

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Theming support</strong></summary>

• Doesn't burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions
  • Dark mode by default, but a light mode is available as well
• Customizable colors and styles for all UI elements through shareable theme files
• Support for custom fonts

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Importing and Exporting data</strong></summary>

• Base64 files
• IPS and IPS32 patches
• Markdown reports
• Binary arrays for various programming languages

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Data Inspector</strong></summary>

• Interpreting data as many different types with endianness, decimal, hexadecimal and octal support and bit inversion
  • Unsigned and signed integers (8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 bit)
  • Floats (16, 32, 64 bit)
  • Signed and Unsigned LEB128
  • ASCII, Wide and UTF-8 characters and strings
  • time32_t, time64_t, DOS date and time
  • GUIDs
  • RGBA8 and RGB65 Colors
• Copying and modifying bytes through the inspector
• Adding new data types through the pattern language
• Support for hiding rows that aren't used

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Node-based data pre-processor</strong></summary>

• Modify, decrypt and decode data before it's being displayed in the hex editor
• Modify data without touching the underlying source
• Support for adding custom nodes

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Loading data from many different data sources</strong></summary>

• Local Files
  • Support for huge files with fast and efficient loading
• Raw Disks
  • Loading data from raw disks and partitions
• GDB Server
  • Access the RAM of a running process or embedded devices through GDB
• Intel Hex and Motorola SREC data
• Base64 encoded data
• UDP Packets
  • Support for displaying raw data received over UDP
• Process Memory
  • Inspect the entire address space of a running process
• Remote Files over SSH with SFTP
  • Support for loading files from remote servers using SSH and SFTP

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Data searching</strong></summary>

• Support for searching the entire file or only a selection
• String extraction
  • Option to specify minimum length and character set (lower case, upper case, digits, symbols)
  • Option to specify encoding (ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 big and little endian)
• Sequence search
  • Search for a sequence of bytes or characters
  • Option to ignore character case
• Regex search
  • Search for strings using regular expressions
• Binary Pattern
  • Search for sequences of bytes with optional wildcards
• Numeric Value search
  • Search for signed/unsigned integers and floats
  • Search for ranges of values
  • Option to specify size and endianness
  • Option to ignore unaligned values

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Data hashing support</strong></summary>

• Many different algorithms available
  • CRC8, CRC16 and CRC32 with custom initial values and polynomials
    • Many default polynomials available
  • MD5
  • SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
  • Adler32
  • AP
  • BKDR
  • Bernstein, Bernstein1
  • DEK, DJB, ELF, FNV1, F