Bless
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What both publish
| Fact | Bless | HexEd.it |
|---|---|---|
| Editing tools | It supports multilevel undo and redo, customizable data views, multiple tabs, and fast find and replace. | The editor provides an editable hexadecimal grid, text representations in more than 50 encodings, insertion and deletion, saving, loading and drag-and-drop. |
| Large files | The project lists efficient editing of large data files as a main feature. | The manual says chunked loading has been tested with files as large as 150 GiB, while the feature page describes handling files up to several terabytes. |
| Purpose | Bless is a binary (hex) editor for editing files as a sequence of bytes. | HexEd.it is a browser-based hex editor for analyzing and editing binary files and hexadecimal data. |
Bless plans
- BlessFree
HexEd.it plans
- FreeFree
Pick Bless if…
Bless suits Linux or Windows users who need to inspect or edit file bytes, including large files or raw disks. Building it requires the listed GTK+, Mono/.NET, C# and Meson tools.
Pick HexEd.it if…
HexEd.it suits people who need to inspect or edit binary files in a browser, including offline after the first visit. Its file-format decoding and hash lookup may help with file analysis.