Hexer Downloads & RevenueHexer — Hex File Viewer · App Store
Hexer — Hex File Viewer is #3 in Developer Tools Paid in Japan and charting in 15 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Hexer — Hex File Viewer update history & changes
Last change · 11 events since 1 Oct 2019Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 10 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · JP
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer hit #1Top Paid · Developer Tools · JP
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer entered the top 10Top Paid · Developer Tools · AU
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · AU
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · RU
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer entered the top 10Top Paid · Developer Tools · DE
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · DE
- 📈Hexer — Hex File Viewer charting in a new countryIndia
- 🆕Hexer — Hex File Viewer first spotted by AppInsider#44 in Top Paid · Developer Tools · France
- 🆕Hexer — Hex File Viewer released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Developer Tools PaidHexer — Hex File Viewer at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A paid iOS and iPadOS hex file viewer for developers and technical users, offering advanced analysis features like byte frequency detection, magic number identification, and deep integration with the Files app. The app demonstrates strong regional traction in Japan (#3) and Germany (#4) within the Paid Developer Tools category, significantly outperforming its US ranking (#14).
Similar apps: Hex Fiend, 010 Editor, HxD Hex Editor
Hexer — Hex File Viewer on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Hexer — Hex File Viewer declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Hexer — Hex File Viewer downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Hexer — Hex File Viewer's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | Developer ToolsPaid | #3 |
 United States | Developer ToolsPaid | #14 |
 Germany | Developer ToolsPaid | #6 |
| Japan | Developer ToolsGrossing | #61 |
| Germany | Developer ToolsGrossing | #54 |
 United Kingdom | Developer ToolsPaid | #33 |
 Canada | Developer ToolsPaid | #18 |
 Italy | Developer ToolsPaid | #16 |
 Australia | Developer ToolsPaid | #23 |
 China | Developer ToolsPaid | #83 |
| France | Developer ToolsPaid | #39 |
 Russia | Developer ToolsPaid | #26 |
 Brazil | Developer ToolsPaid | #40 |
 South Korea | Developer ToolsPaid | #68 |
 Saudi Arabia | Developer ToolsPaid | #28 |
 United Arab Emirates | Developer ToolsPaid | #20 |
 India | Developer ToolsPaid | #192 |
Apps near Hexer — Hex File Viewer on the chart
Developer Tools Paid, around #3.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Hexer — Hex File Viewer
From the 11 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users praise the app's elegant design, fast performance, and powerful viewing features like regex search and color-coded analysis. However, significant dissatisfaction stems from the lack of editing capabilities despite the paid price point, alongside reports of frequent crashes for some users.
Mixed but leaning positive (64% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Good app, but missing option to edit files”
- Design: “Works well, beautiful design”
- Useful: “Works well, beautiful design”
Common complaints
- Price & subscription
About Hexer — Hex File Viewer
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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