Atom Alternatives and Similar Software

Alternatives to Atom for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Web and more. Filter by license to discover only free or Open Source alternatives. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to Atom.

Extensible, cross-platform text editor with a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes. If you're looking for more info about Atom like screenshots, reviews and comments you should visit our info page about it. Below you find the best alternatives.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 6/19/2020 5:24:00 PM

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Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.
- VS Code has arguably better defaults than Atom especially with the pre-configured minimap. Atom's themes use HTML/CSS so visuals are fully configurable but that also makes it a bit slower with drawing operations whereas VS Code draws everything fast, very noticeable with the minimap which reacts practically instantly to changes. VS Code also loads faster and just feels faster in general. Otherwise, both editors offer a massive list of great features and droves of extensions. Ugotsta • Nov 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Much faster, highly active development phase, more and more add-ons are added to the marketplace, open source, and cross-platform. Guest • Dec 2017 • 8 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Much much faster, much better IntelliSense/context-aware suggestions. Even supports debugging. dantex47 • Sep 2017 • 10 agrees and 5 disagrees
- Seems faster than Atom, less resource-hungry. Also using it as the default text editor on macOS. Guest • Jun 2017 • 12 agrees and 7 disagrees
- Faster, still customizable, more basic things such as terminal built in hum4n01d • Jun 2017 • 5 agrees and 7 disagrees
- Makes everything easier, faster. someonelast • Jan 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It has a great user interface and it is also built with Electron. archmaster • Apr 2017 • 3 agrees and 5 disagrees
- Telementry, key bindings, resources usage. Guest • Dec 2016 • 7 agrees and 13 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Electron / Atom Shell
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Built-in Terminal Autocompletion ... Intellisense Customizable Syntax Highlighting Code completion GIT support Plugins C++ support C# Scripting C support Graphical interface IDE Support for Javascript MarkDown support Multiple cursors Night mode/Dark Theme Ruby support Source code debugging Supports loads of file formats Supports Python Bugs Code formatting Code navigation Color coding of code Electron based Embedded debugger Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Extensions Git integration Lint support Mercurial support Minimap Multiple languages PHP IDE Remote Debugging Run Android Apps on Desktop Support for NodeJS Version and Source control Add a feature

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions.
- All needed features included, light weight and to the point. Good support for RtL scripts and customization. The only possible problem found is that the official builds are compiled for MS-Windows only, but it is open source, so that's no big deal breaker! vazirified • May 2017 • 12 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Notepad++ has built-in support for many languages and a great plugin system for more. crlamke • Jul 2017 • 11 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Usage of Notepad++ should be really straightforward for those with prior IDE knowledge & experience. xmwx38 • Sep 2019
- Light on resources, easy to use. Good for beginners. Guest • Aug 2019
- notepad++ has very les plugins and isn't very customizable Guest • Nov 2017 • 8 agrees and 9 disagrees
- Notepad++ is not cross platform and not as performant as Atom MorganGeek • Jun 2017 • 8 agrees and 12 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Code formatting Tabbed interface Custom Language Definitions ... Customer support Support for Javascript Macros Portable Auto-saving Autocompletion Block edit Built-in editor Color coding Column edit mode Configurable Debugger Developer Tools Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Integrated Search Live Preview Multiple languages Multiple Open Tabs Native GUI Plugin manager Plugins Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free without an expiration time limit, however a license must be purchased for continued use.
- You wouldn't believe me if I told you the amount of plug-ins available for easy addition. xmwx38 • Sep 2019 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It is very similar and easy to understand and use, this program is probably one of the best alternatives to Atom if you are using it for simple text editing and you are not very interested in modifying the program itself, even though both programs are really great, I prefer to use Atom when I'm on linux and Sublime Text when I'm on Windows. Ivann • Jun 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Sublime text is powerful such as adding "anaconda" package makes it a full functional IDE, also it supports lots of important languages like java, javascript, C#, ruby, perl to name a few. The only draw back about it is it's not free but work to buy. Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- SublimeText is by far my most favorite editor in my 32 years of computing as it has multitude of features found no where else and is extendable with packages. Vertical Selection and Multi-caret editing is two of my most used features. Guest • Apr 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Because Sublime it's almost the same but paid. It only have minor differences on the packages you can install (some are better in Sublime, some are better in Atom). Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Lightweight Package Control Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable ... Multiple cursors Syntax Highlighting Font Ligature Support High-dpi support Plugins Simple text editor Text editing Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Clean design Code completion Directory structure Fullscreen support Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Php Plugin API Portable Python Ruby Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Auto-Refresh Add a feature

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Vim

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. Vim offers several “modes” for editing with efficiency. This makes vim a non-user-friendly application but it is also a strength. The normal mode binds alphanumeric keys to task-oriented commands. The visual mode highlights text. The command-line mode offers more tools (for search&replace, defining functions, etc.
- Vim offers unlimited customization and consumes very less memory, it supports execution of commands from vim itself and with the right plugins works almost like an ide Guest • May 2017 • 12 agrees and 1 disagrees
- While Vim is powerful, it’s not an easy replacement for a GUI-based text editor. Guest • Jul 2018 • 5 agrees and 5 disagrees
- Vim is a command-line tool, which differs a lot from a GUI app like Atom, Notepad++ or Sublime Text. Guest • Mar 2017 • 11 agrees and 31 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris
Lightweight Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting ... Keyboard focused Plugins Well documented Built-in terminal emulation Command line interface Configurable For geek Hackable MarkDown support Batch Editing Command line Configurable Dedication to home row Developer Tools Support for Large File Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Native application Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Vim Buffers Vim folding Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature

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Brackets

Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License. With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. It's crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers. Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor.
- It's fine for a dedicated code editor, but it's not very functional as a text editor. Guest • Nov 2016 • 11 agrees and 12 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Live Preview Autocompletion Integrated FTP client Syntax Highlighting ... Built-in Level Editor Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File-sync Git integration Multiple languages No registration required Streamlined interface Web Development Add a feature

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gedit

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD ... GNOME OpenSolaris
Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.
- Geany is easy, extremely fast, and reliable. Has a good console. Has good interaction with the shell. Is very customizable. Can be extended with lua. Has good selection of plugins. Snippets. Block editing. Code folding. Syntax highlighting. Tab completion. Everything works. File browser. Object browser. Configurable compilation and execution. Project managment. etc. Everuthing without bloating. Guest • Sep 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce
Better syntax highlighting support Debian package compatible FOSS IDE ... Lightweight Multiplatform Shell integration Support for Themes Automatic Indentation Built-in Terminal Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File Minimalistic Portable Shortcut keys Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Vim plugin Add a feature

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GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.
- Easiest CLI-based text editor for newbies sondrak • Mar 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- nano is a great editor when you are in CLI, however, of course, it does not use GUI or has GUI. Guest • May 2017
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku
Command line interface Automatic Indentation Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature

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PyCharm

Python and Django IDE with refactorings, code completion, on-the-fly code analysis and other features, including version control integration, deployment, integration with issue trackers, and remote debugging. There is also an open source version, PyCharm Community Edition, which has some limitations: it does not support database/SQL, UML diagrams, code coverage, CSS and JavaScript.

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Code completion Code formatting Embedded debugger IDE ... Python IDE Refactoring Git integration GitHub integration Compare Source Code Add a feature

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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include: * Content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML. * Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
- Its more than just a text editor, its an list interpreter and an shell. Good for computer setups without mouse cycroenerugi • May 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Cross-platform Customizable Editable text color schemes ... Extensions Syntax Highlighting IDE IDE All Languages Package Control Scripting Self-documenting Terminal-based Add a feature

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