wxMEdit

Windows · Mac · Linux

Freedom report

Three barsScore 6.5

wxMEdit is ranked #5 of 31 in hex editors on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

wxMEdit plans and pricing

wxMEdit Free Text, Column and Hex editing · Hex mode supports files up to 32GB wxmedit.github.io · 4 Oct 2026

Product: wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.
Editing modes: It edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.
Large files: In Hex mode, it can open files up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).
Encoding: It supports many encodings, including UTF-8, UTF-16/32, ISO-8859 variants, Windows-1250–1258, KOI8-R/U, GB18030, Big5 and Shift-JIS.
Search: It supports regular-expression search and replace.
Syntax highlighting: It supports syntax highlighting for languages including C/C++, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML and others.
Unicode: It supports non-BMP Unicode characters such as CJK extension characters, mathematical symbols, musical symbols and emoji.
Multifile use: It can open multiple files in a single instance.
Automatic updates: It checks for updates automatically.
Platforms: The project lists Windows, ReactOS, Wine, Linux, BSDs, macOS, OpenIndiana, other Unix-like operating systems and Haiku OS as supported environments.
Downloads: The downloads page lists version 3.2 packages for Windows, Linux distributions, FreeBSD and macOS.
Support: The project links to GitHub Issues for support.
Maintenance: The project describes its purpose as providing a continually maintained text and hex editor with bug fixes, improvements and refactoring.
License: The GitHub repository identifies the project license as GPL-3.0.
Price from: Free

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