Download HexEditor

Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Windows

64-bit installer for Windows 10/11

Portable version

macOS

Universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs (macOS 11+)

HexEditor-0.5.0-macos-universal.dmg

Linux

.deb package for Debian-based distributions (amd64, arm64)

hexeditor_0.5.0_amd64.deb hexeditor_0.5.0_arm64.deb

System Requirements

Windows

  • Windows 8.1 or later
  • 64-bit processor
  • 1 GB RAM minimum
  • 100 MB disk space

macOS

  • macOS 11 Big Sur or later
  • Apple Silicon or Intel
  • 1 GB RAM minimum
  • 120 MB disk space

Linux

  • Modern distro (2020+)
  • 64-bit processor
  • 1 GB RAM minimum
  • 100 MB disk space

Installation Instructions

Windows

  1. Download the installer (.exe file)
  2. Run the installer and follow the setup wizard
  3. Launch HexEditor from the Start menu or desktop shortcut

macOS

  1. Download the .dmg file
  2. Open the .dmg and drag HexEditor to Applications
  3. Launch from Applications or Spotlight
  4. If prompted about an unidentified developer, go to System Preferences → Security & Privacy to allow

Linux

Option 1 — apt repository (recommended)

  1. Add the signing key and repository: 
    wget -qO - https://download.vvsoft.me/vvsoft-pub.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/vvsoft-pub.asc > /dev/null
echo -e 'Types: deb\nURIs: https://download.vvsoft.me/repos/hexeditor/apt\nSuites: stable\nComponents: main\nArchitectures: amd64 arm64\nSigned-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/vvsoft-pub.asc' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vvsoft.sources
  2. Install: sudo apt install hexeditor
  3. Future updates via sudo apt upgrade

Option 2 — manual .deb install

  1. Download the .deb package for your architecture (amd64 or arm64)
  2. Install: sudo dpkg -i hexeditor_0.5.0_amd64.deb

Version History

Version 0.5.0

October 23, 2026 Latest
  • Fonts in pt and interface scaling
  • Added schema history
  • Search history
  • Search preferences loading
  • Updater behavior on macos
  • Updater progress animation
  • UI elements disappearing

Version 0.4.3

October 9, 2026
  • New: Drag and drop files
  • macOS: App launch refactoring
  • Crash on exit on macOS
  • File passed via Open With on macOS was not opened when the app was not running yet

Version 0.4.2

October 6, 2026
  • Window handling improvements (Massive windowing refactoring)
  • Emoji drawing
  • Crash when an opened file is deleted, moved or replaced by another program
  • Saving content typed into the initial empty tab produced a zero-length file
  • Unsaved data was lost when saving failed (e.g. no write permission)

Version 0.4.1

April 7, 2026
  • Unchanged data copied to buffer
  • Autoscroll on Linux and Windows
  • macOS updater
  • Windows recent files menu initialization
  • Missing open with functionality in macOS bundle
  • Some animations

Version 0.4.0

March 18, 2026
  • New: Tab dragging
  • New: Animations
  • File changes watching
  • New: Fuzzy search in command palette and file switcher
  • New: Python plugins
  • New schemas
  • Byte order (Little Endian / Big Endian) per field or entire schema
  • Tags improvements
  • Tags drawing performance

Version 0.3.0

February 21, 2026
  • New: PE and ELF executable header schemas; updated ZIP full parsing schema
  • macOS DMG build
  • Application icons
  • Tag engine improvements for dynamic data handling
  • Various rendering improvements

Version 0.2.2

February 17, 2026
  • Dependency library versions updated to meet minimum Debian Bookworm requirements
  • Recent files on file save
  • Build fixes and improvements

Version 0.2.1

February 16, 2026
  • New: ARM64 Linux build

Version 0.2.0

February 9, 2026
  • New: Raspberry theme
  • Activate window on file open
  • User settings autosave
  • Tab close button improvements
  • Reload schema menu item
  • Scrollbar styles
  • Bugfixes for dialogs and cursor handling
  • Various bugfixes and improvements

Version 0.1.31

February 7, 2026
  • New: Recent files
  • Autoupdater fixes for Windows
  • Download update archive fallback when autoupdate is not possible
  • New file menu item on Linux

Version 0.1.30

February 7, 2026
  • New: Tab close confirmation
  • Readonly memory map mode for file manipulations
  • Daemonize application on startup
  • Default directories for file open and save dialogs
  • Application dialogs
  • New: Updater
  • Pipe support (stdin/stdout on Linux/macOS)

Version 0.1.29

February 4, 2026

Version 0.1.25

February 3, 2026
  • New: Schemas menu
  • User settings file
  • Strokes drawing improved

Version 0.1.26

February 3, 2026
  • Strokes drawing improved

Version 0.1.24

February 2, 2026
  • New: Multithreaded search
  • Interface drawing improved

Version 0.1.23

February 2, 2026
  • Windows build

Version 0.1.22

February 1, 2026
  • SKIA as submodule
  • Build fixes and optimizations

Version 0.1.17

February 1, 2026
  • Loading settings files from multiple locations
  • Default settings file in Linux package

Version 0.1.16

February 1, 2026
  • Build pipeline

Version 0.1.0

February 1, 2026
  • New: Basic cross-platform application
  • Hex editor rendering
  • Multi tab editor
  • New: Tags engine
  • Unicode search
  • Skia renderer
  • Many UI components
  • Theming support
  • CLI
  • File open and save
  • New: Command palette