CLUSTER EDITOR-BINARY-HEX · 25 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2007-05-24
Hex editors and binary tools
This cluster comprises 27 tools for viewing and editing binary data, primarily hex editors for files, disks, and specific formats like ELF and G-code. Entries appeared sporadically from May 2007 through July 2026, with no strong trend in frequency. Traction is uniformly low, with all leading tools (se-rs, BinEd, GHex) showing 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 1 unlabelled
Operator · 5 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21xelfviewer-appimage0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceViews and edits ELF binary format files for analysis.
- 22hxl0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal hex viewer for displaying binary files in a readable hexadecimal format.
- 23teehee0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceModal terminal hex editor for inspecting and modifying binary files.
- 24wxHexEditor0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceHex editor that supports editing very large files, comparing files, XOR encryption, and color overlays.
- 25tweak-hexeditor0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility for viewing and editing binary files in hexadecimal format.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.