Atom Alternatives

Atom has been discontinued. One of the most popular alternatives is Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim. Text Editors like Atom are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Chrome OS.

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  1. GNOME Builder icon
     21 likes

    Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
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  2. Light Table icon
     60 likes

    Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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  3. Atheos IDE icon
     6 likes

    Atheos is a web-based IDE framework with a small footprint and minimal requirements, built on top of Codiad by FluidByte and the Codiad Team.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. CodeRunner icon
     17 likes

    A simple programmer's editor with a tightly-integrated console.

    It's excellent for rapidly prototyping code with its super fast edit-run-edit -run-save workflow, and its Cocoa integration gives it a real edge over the command line.

    It has syntax highlighting and code co.

    17 CodeRunner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. EditPlus icon
     30 likes

    EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    65 EditPlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Xed icon
     22 likes

    A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.

    166 Xed alternatives

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    • Linux
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  7. SynWrite icon
     31 likes

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

    171 SynWrite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander
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  8. wxMEdit icon
     27 likes

    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. Lime Text icon
     32 likes

    Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.

    70 Lime Text alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. SourceLair icon
     8 likes

    sourceLair is a cloud based software development environment aiming to revolutionize its market by letting developers work everywhere, with the most reliable, efficient and elegant development environment available.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. NINJA-IDE icon
     34 likes

    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for...

    58 NINJA-IDE alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. Aquamacs Emacs icon
     18 likes

    An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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