Atom Alternatives for Chrome OS
There are many alternatives to Atom for Chrome OS and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Chrome OS alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Atom and 11 are available for Chrome OS so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Chrome OS alternatives to Atom are gedit, Caret, GNOME Builder and Text.
Atom alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or IDEs. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Atom.
- Free Personal • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron / Atom Shell
Visual Studio Code is more than just a code editor, it provides the tools and extensions to compile, debug, compare, refactor, and even manage code repositories all within a highly-customised development environment.
Visual Studio Code vs Atom opinions
Much faster, highly active development phase, more and more add-ons are added to the marketplace, open source, and cross-platform.
Seems faster than Atom, less resource-hungry. Also using it as the default text editor on macOS.
UgotstaVS 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.
someonelastMakes everything easier, faster.
dantex47Much much faster, much better IntelliSense/context-aware suggestions. Even supports debugging.
hum4n01dFaster, still customizable, more basic things such as terminal built in
archmasterIt has a great user interface and it is also built with Electron.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- GNOME
- OpenSolaris
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
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
Caret is a lightweight-but-powerful programmer's editor running as a Chrome Packaged App. Inspired by Sublime and built on top of the Ace editing component, it offers:
Caret vs Atom opinions
mattheworigerEasy to use. Lots of useful features. Light and fast
Builder is an IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of the platform to more developers than ever before.
GNOME Builder vs Atom opinions
sw1ayfeDoes not rely on Electron. Loads of plugins and tweaks make this a great IDE. Simple design as you'd expect from a Gnome app, but don't let that disract you from how powerful it is.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
Zed is a fully offline-capable text and code editor you can use to edit files locally, on Dropbox, or remotely on any server. It has all the code editor features you'd expect and more:
Discontinued
Latest commit 661ba3a on May 11, 2015. See https://github.com/zedapp/zed
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
Powerful, Collaborative Online/Offline web IDE.
Discontinued
Seems dead, upgrades are disabled and no updates for some time.
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- Freemium • Open Source
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
A new code editor for Chrome and ChromeOS.
