Acme Alternatives

Acme is described as 'Powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Acme for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Acme alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Acme are Vim, gedit, GNU Emacs and GNU nano.

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  1. Text Editor Pro icon
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    Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories and search results.

    72 Text Editor Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. TextEdit icon
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    When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and even add music and movie files.

    100 TextEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. EditPad Lite icon
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    EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:

    124 EditPad Lite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. Judge0 IDE icon
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    Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

    168 Judge0 IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Judge0 IDE is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Acme.

    • Judge0 IDE is Free and Open SourceAcme is Free and Proprietary
  5. metapad icon
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    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...

    108 metapad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. SynWrite icon
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    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    168 SynWrite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander
     
  7. BabelPad icon
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    BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  8. TextPad icon
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    TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.

    126 TextPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  9. Smultron icon
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    Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs - like web programming, script editing, making a to do...

    70 Smultron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  10. TwistPad icon
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    Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.

    89 TwistPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. JOE icon
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    JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

    59 JOE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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