Hextor

More often than not, when opening a file with a specialized tool, you can preview the content as it is interpreted by the said program. Then again, let's not forget that even plain text files come with invisible characters that have the role of marking the beginning of the file, where the lines break, end of the file, so on and so forth.

As the name suggests, Hextor is a hexadecimal editor and binary data analyzing tool that enables you to thoroughly examine the properties of any file. Whether you are coding or looking to edit specific files from a program, the application enables you to check out the content of the file, byte by byte.

Although the app is in its early stages, it already packs several tools and features that may come in handy. Some of the noteworthy features include bookmarks, unlimited redo and undo, binary file comparison, dissembler, script support via MSScriptControl, view data as bitmap or as different basic types, just to name a few.

As far as the applicability is concerned, there are several situations when you may want to use it such as to fix a corrupt file, to reverse-engineer old and unknown files of apps that no longer exist or to get rid of invisible data.