1239 Like Sublime Text Good alternative? YES NO Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface... Freemium Mac Windows Linux
413 Like Atom Good alternative? YES NO A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell
802 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris ... Xfce
526 Like gedit Good alternative? YES NO Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD OpenSolaris
241 Like Brackets Good alternative? YES NO Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.... Open Source Mac Windows Linux
373 Like Geany Good alternative? YES NO Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only... Open Source Windows Linux Xfce
232 Like GNU Emacs Good alternative? YES NO GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp... Open Source Mac Windows Linux
128 Like GNU nano Good alternative? YES NO GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search... Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku
264 Like Adobe Dreamweaver Good alternative? YES NO Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool developed by Adobe Systems. Commercial Mac Windows
255 Like Notepad2 Discontinued Good alternative? YES NO Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full... Open Source Windows
170 Like Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
221 Like TextMate Good alternative? YES NO TextMate brings Apples approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate... Freemium Mac GitHub
129 Like Kate Good alternative? YES NO Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with... Open Source Windows Linux KDE
174 Like PSPad Good alternative? YES NO PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax... Free Windows
245 Like Coda Good alternative? YES NO Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote... Commercial Mac iPhone iPad
53 Like Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience –... Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
121 Like SciTE Good alternative? YES NO SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with... Open Source Windows Linux Xfce
133 Like Notepad Good alternative? YES NO Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows. Free Windows
114 Like Bluefish Editor Good alternative? YES NO Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and... Open Source Mac Windows Linux
130 Like TextWrangler Good alternative? YES NO TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic, a text... Free Mac
99 Like jEdit Good alternative? YES NO jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development... Open Source Mac Windows Linux
120 Like UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An... Commercial Mac Windows Linux
87 Like WriteMonkey Good alternative? YES NO Writemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your... Freemium Windows
58 Like AkelPad Good alternative? YES NO A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages. ... Open Source Windows
43 Like Leafpad Good alternative? YES NO Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the... Open Source Linux Xfce
29 Like Light Table Good alternative? YES NO Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the... Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
25 Like Notepad2-mod Good alternative? YES NO A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Changes compared to the official... Open Source Windows
48 Like Programmer's Notepad Alternative? YES NO Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea... Open Source Windows
18 Like Lime Text Good alternative? YES NO Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in go. If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is... Open Source Mac Windows Linux
25 Like NINJA-IDE Good alternative? YES NO NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development... Open Source Mac Windows Linux
23 Like ReText Good alternative? YES NO ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview. It is... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
78 Like Espresso Good alternative? YES NO Espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of CSSEdit . Elegant... Commercial Mac
45 Like EmEditor Good alternative? YES NO EmEditor is a fast Unicode text editor for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting large files, scriptable macros, CSV files, keyword... Commercial Windows
26 Like WordPad Good alternative? YES NO WordPad is a simple word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. It is the... Commercial Windows
35 Like Komodo IDE Good alternative? YES NO Code smarter and faster with Komodo IDE, the cross-platform professional development environment for dynamic languages and open... Commercial Mac Windows Linux
