Open Source Atom Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Atom is Notepad++. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Atom and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Atom are Vim, VSCodium, Geany and Kate.

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Atom alternatives page was last updated Mar 24, 2023
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  1. Notepas icon
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    Notepas

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    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

    115 Notepas alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Notepas Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for Unicode
    5.  GPLv3
    Discontinued

    Cannot run on macOS Monterey and the last update is from 2016.

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  2. Nota (Maui Applications) icon
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    Nota (Maui Applications)

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    Nota is a convergent text editor. Nota is easy to use, with a simple interface by default. Nota supports syntax highlighting for various languages, focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, colors, a integrated side panel and more.

    120 Nota (Maui Applications) alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Nota (Maui Applications) Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Minimalistic
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    Yi

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    Yi is a text editor written, and extensible in, the Haskell programming language. It can be made to behave like emacs or like vi.

    33 Yi alternatives
    The Vty frontend

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Yi Features

    1.  EMACS
    The GTK frontend
    Discontinued

    Project possibly abandoned. No activities for two years, and last release in 2017.In this GitHub issue, the developer discussed about the future of the project: https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/issues/1114

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    Boa Constructor

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    Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder. It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, many views on the source like object browsers, inheritance hierarchies, doc string generated html documentation, an advanced debugger...

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    Debugger

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows

    Boa Constructor Features

    1.  Rad
    Frame Design
    IDE
    Discontinued

    The last update is from May 2013.

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    Editor

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    Simple Android text editor.

    75 Editor alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    Vy

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    vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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    edile

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    Edile is a basic but useful text editor for Linux, Mac OSX and other unix-like operating systems. Written in Python, Edile is implemented in a single source code file and requires no installation - you simply execute the source code file.

    24 edile alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    edile Features

    1.  Portable
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2010.

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