Modern REing Hex Editor

by WerWolvVerified

Arch Linux (recommended)

Screenshots & videos

About

ImHex is a modern Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Developers, Malware Analysists and Hackers who value their retinas when working at 3 AM once again. Features: - Featureful hex view - Custom C++-like pattern language for parsing and highlighting a file's content - Data importing and exporting - Data inspector allowing interpretation of data as many different types - Huge file support with fast and efficient loading - Strings search - File hashing support - Disassembler supporting many different architectures: ARM, x86, PowerPC, MIPS, and more - Bookmarks - Data analyzer - Helpful tools such as an Itanium and MSVC demangler, ASCII table, Regex replacer, mathematical expression evaluator (calculator), hexadecimal color picker and many more - Doesn't burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions

Required configuration

Recommends: keyboard, mouse or touchpad.

Additional information

Project

Developer
WerWolv
License
GPL-2.0-only (free software)What this license lets you do

Install

Available via
Flatpak · Snap (2) · AppImage · Arch Linux (3) · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux · Nixpkgs
All 12 packagings

Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, Snap Store (Nightly build), AppImage, AUR, AUR (Bin build), AUR (Git build), Fedora, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux

Flatpak sandbox
Limited access

Runs in a sandbox with no access to your personal files or devices beyond what's listed.

What it can access
  • Uses the internet

About this data

Sources
14 independent sources agree
Catalog data as of
October 12, 2026
How each source lists it (12)
SourceNameVersionBuilt byLicenseDescription
Flathub (Flatpak)ImHex1.38.1Official buildGPL-2.0-onlyModern REing Hex Editor
Snap StoreImHex1.38.1—GPL-2.0-onlyReverse Engineer's Hex Editor
Snap Store (Nightly build)ImHex1.39.0.WIP-9742—GPL-2.0-onlyReverse Engineer's Hex Editor
AppImageImHexv1.38.1—GPL-2.0<p>ImHex is a feature-rich Hex Editor aimed towards Reverse Engineers working with foreign data formats, malware, executables and raw memory. Besides all the features a common Hex Editor has, ImHex also features a custom scripting language used to declare and dissect data structures, support for running YARA rules, a node-based graphical data pre-processor and support for various data sources such as files, raw disks or GDB Servers.</p>
AURimhex1.38.1-2—GPL-2.0-or-laterA Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eye sight when working at 3 AM
AUR (Bin build)imhex-bin1.38.1-1Community repackGPL2A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
AUR (Git build)imhex-git1.36.0.r386.gea3d4b41a-1—GPL2A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eye sight when working at 3 AM
Fedoraimhex1.37.4Distribution buildGPL-2.0-only AND Zlib AND MIT AND Apache-2.0A hex editor for reverse engineers and programmers
Nixpkgsimhex1.38.1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-onlyHex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM
openSUSEImHex1.38.1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-onlyA Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers
Alpine Linuximhex1.38.1-r3Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterHex editor for reverse engineers and programmers
Void Linuximhex1.38.1_1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterHex editor for reverse engineers and programmers

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Add-ons

Plugins (2)
  • imhex-patterns-git — Hex patterns, include patterns and other files for the use with the ImHex Hex Editor (AUR, Fedora, Void Linux)
  • imhex-plugin-sdk — Hex editor for reverse engineers and programmers - plugin SDK (Void Linux)