macOS Best Hex Editor?

Hex Fiend is pretty nice.

Or there's HexEdit.

I've tried all 3 of those. I find 0xED best for large files.

0xED seems to be the preferred one by most people (including me). You can find a more in-depth comparison on this thread:

http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,6520.0.html

I've never heard of 0xED, I'll have to give it a try. I use HexEdit, but have used Hex Fiend a few times.

Cromulent said:

0xED is rather sparse, and having used Hex Editor Neo on Windows Vista it feels a little under powered.

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What does Neo do that 0xED can't?

I've been using hexedit from mac ports, it's a console application using ncurses.
I've tried 0xED and the gui hexEdit (which I'm not sure is the same?) but I find that I like the console app the most.

I use 0xED myself, works great for what I need a hex editor for.

The one thing that's missing is a good (free) hex editor that can edit (or view mainly) devices. When I give 0xED a path to /dev/diskxxx it crashes. Been wanting to modify Hex Fiend to do this, just haven't gotten around to it yet..

kainjow said:

The one thing that's missing is a good (free) hex editor that can edit (or view mainly) devices.

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iBored can do this. Many console editors can as well.