Hexer — Hex File Viewer
Inspect any file
$3.99
2.1for iPhone, iPad and more
8.7
21 Ratings
Hans Schulein
Developer
6.1 MB
Size
May 31, 2021
Update Date
#45
in Developer Tools
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About Hexer — Hex File Viewer
Hexer is a desktop level hex viewer packed with features. It was developed from the ground up for iOS and iPadOS. It is natural and intuitive to use for everyone. It is integrated with the Files app. So you can browse Dropbox, Google Drive, your git repositories, your downloads, your documents in iCloud Drive or your desktop. Or you can just share any file to it.
Bytes are highlighted in different colors: Printable characters are cyan, spaces blue, null bytes grey, control characters pink and so on. The colors appear across the binary, hexadecimal, and ascii column — or can just be turned off completely.
▶ Many advanced options
• Many popular themes from text editors and terminals
• Line numbers (offsets)
• Overscroll
• Complete control over the formatting of what you copy or share
• Column counts in powers of two (8 bytes, 16, 32, ...) or in any number that fits
• Interpret bytes as ASCII, ISO Latin 1 or EBCDIC
• The UI is navigable by keyboard and there are keyboard shortcuts to toggle almost everything
• Further features for you to discover
▶ Search
• Search for content in the hexadecimal, ASCII or binary column
• Preview results with context and jump to and highlight them in the document
• Filter results with Regular Expression and based on case sensitivity
• Jump between results with arrow keys
▶ Analysis
• Get information about the selection or the entire document
• Decode to integers
• See byte frequencies
• See detected file signatures (magic numbers)
• Read metadata like creation date and Unix permissions
▶ The App is made by a real person out of love
When you buy the app (no hidden in app purchases) the money goes straight to me to support development. If you have any questions or feature requests you can just write me an email and let me know. I will continue development with many more planned features like editing.
▶ The App is friendly
There are no in app purchases, ads, tracking, nor is there any data collected. You buy it once and then use it. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Bytes are highlighted in different colors: Printable characters are cyan, spaces blue, null bytes grey, control characters pink and so on. The colors appear across the binary, hexadecimal, and ascii column — or can just be turned off completely.
▶ Many advanced options
• Many popular themes from text editors and terminals
• Line numbers (offsets)
• Overscroll
• Complete control over the formatting of what you copy or share
• Column counts in powers of two (8 bytes, 16, 32, ...) or in any number that fits
• Interpret bytes as ASCII, ISO Latin 1 or EBCDIC
• The UI is navigable by keyboard and there are keyboard shortcuts to toggle almost everything
• Further features for you to discover
▶ Search
• Search for content in the hexadecimal, ASCII or binary column
• Preview results with context and jump to and highlight them in the document
• Filter results with Regular Expression and based on case sensitivity
• Jump between results with arrow keys
▶ Analysis
• Get information about the selection or the entire document
• Decode to integers
• See byte frequencies
• See detected file signatures (magic numbers)
• Read metadata like creation date and Unix permissions
▶ The App is made by a real person out of love
When you buy the app (no hidden in app purchases) the money goes straight to me to support development. If you have any questions or feature requests you can just write me an email and let me know. I will continue development with many more planned features like editing.
▶ The App is friendly
There are no in app purchases, ads, tracking, nor is there any data collected. You buy it once and then use it. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.1
Last updated on May 31, 2021
Old Versions
This version brings new icons as well as many medium and small improvements including new features.
Search Filters and Improvements:
• Filter ASCII search with RegEx and select case sensitivity
• Share search results
• Select search results in the document
Jump to Offset:
• Jump to a given hexadecimal offset
• Highlight the byte at the given index
Codepages Support:
• Select one of multiple codepages
• Support for ASCII, ISO Latin, and EBCDIC
• Select multiple syntax themes for each
• Classic HexFiend and HexDump modes
Metadata Information:
• View metadata in analysis tab
• Inspect UTI, creation date, modification date and Unix Permissions
iPadOS Cursor Support:
• Cursor snaps accurately to bytes
• Cursor snaps to byte frequencies
• Added secondary click options to many buttons
Visual Improvements:
• New app icons!
• New “Shaded of Purple” theme
• Alternating rows option
• Indicate currently open sidebar
• Change sidebar color to resemble iWork apps
• Increase sidebar width
• Removed sidebar slideover mode
• Indicated byte in frequency grid
• Changed some contrasts for accessibility
• Linked new website and mail
• Further small design tweaks
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
• Removed a bunch of crashes and memory leaks
• Improved performance when scrolling and resizing in a variety of ways
• Restored ability to launch on M1 Macs
• Decreased app size
Search Filters and Improvements:
• Filter ASCII search with RegEx and select case sensitivity
• Share search results
• Select search results in the document
Jump to Offset:
• Jump to a given hexadecimal offset
• Highlight the byte at the given index
Codepages Support:
• Select one of multiple codepages
• Support for ASCII, ISO Latin, and EBCDIC
• Select multiple syntax themes for each
• Classic HexFiend and HexDump modes
Metadata Information:
• View metadata in analysis tab
• Inspect UTI, creation date, modification date and Unix Permissions
iPadOS Cursor Support:
• Cursor snaps accurately to bytes
• Cursor snaps to byte frequencies
• Added secondary click options to many buttons
Visual Improvements:
• New app icons!
• New “Shaded of Purple” theme
• Alternating rows option
• Indicate currently open sidebar
• Change sidebar color to resemble iWork apps
• Increase sidebar width
• Removed sidebar slideover mode
• Indicated byte in frequency grid
• Changed some contrasts for accessibility
• Linked new website and mail
• Further small design tweaks
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
• Removed a bunch of crashes and memory leaks
• Improved performance when scrolling and resizing in a variety of ways
• Restored ability to launch on M1 Macs
• Decreased app size
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Version History
2.1
May 31, 2021
This version brings new icons as well as many medium and small improvements including new features.
Search Filters and Improvements:
• Filter ASCII search with RegEx and select case sensitivity
• Share search results
• Select search results in the document
Jump to Offset:
• Jump to a given hexadecimal offset
• Highlight the byte at the given index
Codepages Support:
• Select one of multiple codepages
• Support for ASCII, ISO Latin, and EBCDIC
• Select multiple syntax themes for each
• Classic HexFiend and HexDump modes
Metadata Information:
• View metadata in analysis tab
• Inspect UTI, creation date, modification date and Unix Permissions
iPadOS Cursor Support:
• Cursor snaps accurately to bytes
• Cursor snaps to byte frequencies
• Added secondary click options to many buttons
Visual Improvements:
• New app icons!
• New “Shaded of Purple” theme
• Alternating rows option
• Indicate currently open sidebar
• Change sidebar color to resemble iWork apps
• Increase sidebar width
• Removed sidebar slideover mode
• Indicated byte in frequency grid
• Changed some contrasts for accessibility
• Linked new website and mail
• Further small design tweaks
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
• Removed a bunch of crashes and memory leaks
• Improved performance when scrolling and resizing in a variety of ways
• Restored ability to launch on M1 Macs
• Decreased app size
Search Filters and Improvements:
• Filter ASCII search with RegEx and select case sensitivity
• Share search results
• Select search results in the document
Jump to Offset:
• Jump to a given hexadecimal offset
• Highlight the byte at the given index
Codepages Support:
• Select one of multiple codepages
• Support for ASCII, ISO Latin, and EBCDIC
• Select multiple syntax themes for each
• Classic HexFiend and HexDump modes
Metadata Information:
• View metadata in analysis tab
• Inspect UTI, creation date, modification date and Unix Permissions
iPadOS Cursor Support:
• Cursor snaps accurately to bytes
• Cursor snaps to byte frequencies
• Added secondary click options to many buttons
Visual Improvements:
• New app icons!
• New “Shaded of Purple” theme
• Alternating rows option
• Indicate currently open sidebar
• Change sidebar color to resemble iWork apps
• Increase sidebar width
• Removed sidebar slideover mode
• Indicated byte in frequency grid
• Changed some contrasts for accessibility
• Linked new website and mail
• Further small design tweaks
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
• Removed a bunch of crashes and memory leaks
• Improved performance when scrolling and resizing in a variety of ways
• Restored ability to launch on M1 Macs
• Decreased app size
2.0
Jan 2, 2021
Large scale changes to the entire app:
User Interface Overhaul:
• Modernized and native-ized user interface
• Toggle a sidebar in different modes next to or over the document depending on context
• Sidebar can be toggled using navigation bar buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and sideswipes
• Navigation bar and sidebar will use light or dark theme depending on the syntax theme being light or dark
• Added custom tint color
• Added support for multiple windows
Search:
• Added search mode to sidebar
• Search for content in the hexadecimal, ASCII, or binary column
• Preview results with context and jump to and highlight them in the document
• Jump between results with arrow keys
• Search results are limited to the first 1000 hits to increase performance
Analysis:
• Added analysis mode to sidebar
• Get information about the selection or the entire document
• Decode to integers
• See byte frequencies
• See detected file signatures (magic numbers)
Significant Performance Improvements:
• Document load times and scrolling performance is drastically increased
• Fixed crashes during (too fast) scrolling
• Fixed crashes during pinch-to-zoom
• Fixed crashes during opening documents
• Fixed crashes when putting the app into background
Misc Additions and Changes:
• Unified column reorder and hiding menu
• Mono Green themes split into light and dark
• Mono Green themes and corresponding icon changed to use app tint (solarized) green
• Options now show keyboard shortcuts next to them on iPad
• About screen shows version number
• Added changelog to the app
• Added symbols for newline (\n, 0x0a) and tab (\t, 0x09) characters
• Moved easter egg
• Changed the way the outer background is colored
• Rounded corners in secondary selection
• Removed little endian option due to backend changes
Misc Fixes and Improvements:
• Better support of Dynamic Text (Accessibility font size)
• Text rendering should be slightly sharper
• Improved scroll position after rotating or resizing
• The document no longer appears scrolled after opening on some devices
• the document browser no longer appears to rotate when opening a document
• Open from share sheet works reliably
• Slightly tweaked about screen order and icons
• Rudimentary cursor support for theme and app icon buttons
User Interface Overhaul:
• Modernized and native-ized user interface
• Toggle a sidebar in different modes next to or over the document depending on context
• Sidebar can be toggled using navigation bar buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and sideswipes
• Navigation bar and sidebar will use light or dark theme depending on the syntax theme being light or dark
• Added custom tint color
• Added support for multiple windows
Search:
• Added search mode to sidebar
• Search for content in the hexadecimal, ASCII, or binary column
• Preview results with context and jump to and highlight them in the document
• Jump between results with arrow keys
• Search results are limited to the first 1000 hits to increase performance
Analysis:
• Added analysis mode to sidebar
• Get information about the selection or the entire document
• Decode to integers
• See byte frequencies
• See detected file signatures (magic numbers)
Significant Performance Improvements:
• Document load times and scrolling performance is drastically increased
• Fixed crashes during (too fast) scrolling
• Fixed crashes during pinch-to-zoom
• Fixed crashes during opening documents
• Fixed crashes when putting the app into background
Misc Additions and Changes:
• Unified column reorder and hiding menu
• Mono Green themes split into light and dark
• Mono Green themes and corresponding icon changed to use app tint (solarized) green
• Options now show keyboard shortcuts next to them on iPad
• About screen shows version number
• Added changelog to the app
• Added symbols for newline (\n, 0x0a) and tab (\t, 0x09) characters
• Moved easter egg
• Changed the way the outer background is colored
• Rounded corners in secondary selection
• Removed little endian option due to backend changes
Misc Fixes and Improvements:
• Better support of Dynamic Text (Accessibility font size)
• Text rendering should be slightly sharper
• Improved scroll position after rotating or resizing
• The document no longer appears scrolled after opening on some devices
• the document browser no longer appears to rotate when opening a document
• Open from share sheet works reliably
• Slightly tweaked about screen order and icons
• Rudimentary cursor support for theme and app icon buttons
1.0.0
Oct 1, 2019
Hexer — Hex File Viewer FAQ
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iPhone
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
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