Resource Hacker vs TextEdit

Resource Hacker

Description: Resource Hacker is a free utility for modifying resources in Windows executables and DLLs. It enables viewing, editing, and extracting resources such as icons, images, manifest files, strings, menus, dialogs, version information, and more.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

TextEdit

Description: TextEdit is a simple text editor that comes pre-installed on Mac computers. It has basic formatting features like fonts, colors, alignments, lists, etc. Good for taking notes or writing short documents.

Type: software

Pricing: Freemium

Resource Hacker Features

• View and edit resources in Windows executables and DLLs
• Extract resources like icons, images, manifest files, strings, menus, dialogs, version info
• Add, delete and modify resources
• Supports EXE, DLL, ICNS, ICO, BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF, MUI, XML, RC, MANIFEST, RES, CUR, AVI, ANI and more

TextEdit Features

• Basic text editing
• Font selection
• Text color
• Text highlighting
• Text alignment
• Lists
• Tables
• Insert images
• Spell check
• Word count
• Print
• Export PDF

Resource Hacker

• Open Source

TextEdit

• Freemium