ExBin Project is a small, independent software publisher focused on low-level data inspection and manipulation tools for developers, reverse engineers, and forensic analysts. Its single public offering, BinEd, is a cross-platform, open-source binary and hexadecimal viewer/editor built in Java that can be dropped into larger applications as a reusable component or launched standalone to examine raw disk images, firmware blobs, packet captures, and any other non-text artifact. The program renders multiple synchronized pane layouts (hex, text, decimal, octal, binary), supports in-place bit toggling, fast incremental search with regular expressions, customizable data inspectors for integers, floats, and timestamps, and can handle multi-gigabyte files through memory-mapped I/O. Typical workflows include verifying checksums embedded in ROMs, patching embedded configuration tables, recovering deleted file fragments from disk images, or simply learning file formats by correlating hex patterns with documented structures. Because the codebase is released under the MIT license, third-party tools such as disk utilities, database browsers, and network analyzers routinely embed BinEd to provide their users with a consistent, lightweight hex editing surface without having to maintain separate native modules. ExBin Project’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources like winget, always installing the latest version and allowing batch installation alongside other applications.
Free and open source binary/hex viewer/editor and component written in Java
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