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. Runestone icon
     3 likes

    A performant, lightweight, and simple plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  2. Howl icon
     6 likes

    Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. Code icon
     18 likes

    Code (formerly known as Scratch) is an advanced text editor built for and bundled with elementary OS. A very intuitive interface keeps complex functionality like Vim emulation, Git and terminal integration accessible but out of the way while...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. BabelPad icon
     5 likes

    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.

    153 BabelPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  5. Yi icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Vy icon
     2 likes

    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.

    163 Vy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. DevTEd Lite is a free source code editor that supports several languages. System requirements: MS WIndows 10 or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Metacode icon
     1 like

    Code faster in natural language. Metacode converts natural language into code in realtime, so you don't have to switch out of your text editor to look up code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Diakonos icon
     3 likes

    Diakonos is a powerful and easy to use console-based text editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. Enki icon
     11 likes

    Enki is a text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as quickly as possible. Without mouse. -Lighweight. Some IDEs show splashscreen. enki will never do it. It just sta.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. 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.

    176 Lines code editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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