3989 Like Notepad++ Good alternative? YES NO Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Autocompletion Block edit Code formatting Color coding Configurable ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Tabbed interface Add a feature 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 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Notepad++ has built-in support for many languages and a great plugin system for more. crlamke • Jul 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Notepad++ is not cross platform and not as performant as Atom MorganGeek • Jun 2017 • 3 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree
1589 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 and extraordinary features. ... Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Multiple cursors Autocompletion Automatic packaging ... Code completion Customizable Optimize for fast boot Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 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 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
984 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 contributed content. It also has a... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature 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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Vim is a command-line tool, which differs a lot from a GUI app like Atom, Notepad++ or Sublime Text. Guest • Mar 2017 • 3 agrees and 15 disagrees Disagree Agree
287 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 – without the need for a full IDE. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Built-in Terminal Customizable Intellisense Code completion Dark theme ... Lightweight Multiple cursors Autocompletion Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration GIT support MarkDown support Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Version and Source control Add a feature Seems faster than Atom, less resource-hungry. Also using it as the default text editor on macOS. Guest • Jun 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Faster, still customizable, more basic things such as terminal built in hum4n01d • Jun 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Much much faster, much better IntelliSense/context-aware suggestions. Even supports debugging. dantex47 • Sep 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Telementry, key bindings, resources usage. Guest • Dec 2016 • 6 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree It has a great user interface and it is also built with Electron. archmaster • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
706 Like Microsoft Visual Studio Alternative? YES NO Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web... Free Personal Windows Web .NET Framework Code completion Automatic content formatting Azure integration C# Scripting Color coding Development API ... Intellisense Support for Multiple programming languages Nuget Add a feature
347 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. The project was created and is... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Autocompletion Live Preview Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple languages Syntax Highlighting Add a feature It's fine for a dedicated code editor, but it's not very functional as a text editor. Guest • Nov 2016 • 6 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree
601 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 several languages. It is extensible with... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD GNOME OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
424 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 a few dependencies from other... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Xfce Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
266 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 programming language with extensions... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting ... Terminal-based Add a feature
172 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 and replace, go to line and column... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Haiku Automatic Indentation Command line interface Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature nano is a great editor when you are in CLI, however, of course, it does not use GUI or has GUI. Guest • May 2017 Disagree Agree
162 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 plugins. Features a MDI interface. ... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE Code formatting Support for regular expressions Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Add a feature
200 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 its big brother... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
101 Like PyCharm Community Edition Alternative? YES NO Python IDE with refactoring, code completion, on-the-fly code analysis, graphical debugger, and coding productivity orientation. It can work with Git, Mercurial, CVS... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD FreeBSD Refactoring Add a feature
323 Like Aptana Studio Alternative? YES NO Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for FTP Real time collaboration Add a feature Discontinued Aptana is still in development on GitHub but latest version, 3.6.1, was released in October 2014. It lacks Java 8/9 features, as well as newer Javascript and HTML 5 features.
276 Like Notepad2 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 Unicode support. Can be run out of... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
