010 Editor is a professional text editor and the world’s best hex editor, designed for editing and analyzing text files, binary files, and entire drives of virtually any size. With real-time syntax parsing powered by Tree-sitter, advanced editing tools, an unmatched Binary Template system, and a full suite of analysis and automation features, 010 Editor is a comprehensive solution for reverse engineering, forensics, data recovery, and low-level file manipulation. It supports huge files (50 GB+), deep binary structure parsing, powerful search and comparison tools, and drive‑level editing capabilities for NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, HFS, MBR, and EFI partitions. Developers, digital forensics experts, security analysts, and data recovery professionals rely on 010 Editor for precise, efficient and intelligent data inspection.

Features

Text Editing

• Outstanding text editor with real-time syntax parsing using Tree-sitter.
• Supports XML, HTML, Unicode, UTF‑8, C/C++, PHP, and 45+ syntaxes (ASM, Bash, CSS, Go, Haskell, Java, JS, JSON, Markdown, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Typescript, YAML, etc.).
• High-quality syntax highlighting, brace matching, and selection expansion.
• Unlimited undo, advanced editing tools, and column mode editing.
• Themes available in dark and light variants. Hex & Binary Editing
• World's best hex editor with unmatched performance on files of any size.
• Binary Templates allow hierarchical parsing of more than 300 file formats.
• Templates resemble C/C++ structs and support logic (if, for, while) and functions.
• Integrated online Template Repository for downloads and sharing. Reverse Engineering Tools
• Binary format analysis tools.
• Disassembly for X86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, SystemZ, and XCore.
• Interpret binary data in numerous formats. Forensic Analysis Tools
• Digital forensics-focused features and malware analysis capabilities.
• Powerful search tools and visualizations.
• Memory and process analysis. Data Recovery Tools
• Low-level hard drive editor.
• View and edit NTFS, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, and HFS drives.
• Supports MBR and EFI partitions.
• View directories, file blocks, and slack space. Analysis Tools
• Full Find/Replace and Find in Files for multiple data types.
• Binary comparison tool with byte-by-byte diff analysis.
• Mini Map and Visualize tab for graphical data views.
• Checksum and hash algorithms: CRC16, CRC32, Adler32, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA‑1, SHA‑256, TIGER, etc.
• Histogram tool for counting/visualizing byte occurrences. Scripting & Automation
• Automate operations using a C/C++‑like scripting language.
• 350+ functions for operating on data.
• Integrated with Binary Templates for intuitive scripted editing.
• Script Archive for downloading shared scripts.
• Run scripts from the command line for batch processing.
• Integrated debugger with breakpoints and watches. Drive Editing
• Parse both logical and physical drives.
• View directories, slack space, partitions, and more. Additional Tools
• Workspace view with file explorer.
• Data conversion (ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, UTF‑8).
• Inspector panel for interpreting data in multiple formats.
• Bookmarks, expression calculator, highlighting rules.
• Import/export formats: Intel Hex, Motorola S‑Records, Hex Text, C/C++/Java Code, Base64, Uuencoding, RTF, HTML.
• Printing with preview, headers, footers.
• Integrated debugger for templates and scripts.

Benefits

• Deep insight into binary structures using powerful Binary Templates.
• Efficient workflow for reverse engineering, forensics, and recovery.
• Ability to process extremely large files and drives without performance loss.
• Automation and scripting significantly accelerate repetitive tasks.
• Comprehensive toolset reduces need for multiple specialized utilities.
• Real-time syntax parsing improves accuracy when editing structured text.
• Supports professional-grade investigations, debugging, and low-level file repair.