Atom
Extensible, cross-platform text editor with a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron / Atom Shell
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Atom is an open-source,
Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.js) and offers the same editing experience across Mac, Windows and Linux desktops. Different from most editors, it uses that same technology for themes so the UI is highly configurable through HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
FEATURES
- Same familiar workflow across platforms.
- Built-in package manager.
- File system browser.
- Advanced find-and-replace that works across multiple files and folders.
- Smart autocompletion.

FEATURES
- Same familiar workflow across platforms.
- Built-in package manager.
- File system browser.
- Advanced find-and-replace that works across multiple files and folders.
- Smart autocompletion.
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- Developed by Github
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.6
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View allAtom was added to AlternativeTo by on Feb 27, 2014 and this page was last updated Dec 18, 2020. Atom is sometimes referred to as Atom Editor.
Needs a lot of space and system resources to do something way slower than others that I've tested.
With too many tabs & large files, it becomes quite sluggish even on new machines. Maybe native UI would help.
extremely heavy on large files
Reply written more than a year ago
it's really strange that github people couldn't come up with a fast and strong app.
Reply written more than a year ago
Replaced Sublime Text with Atom when Atom came out, however Atom is just so incredibly slow. I ended up replacing it with Visual Studio Code which is much much faster.
It’s a rich editor but awfully slow to launch and heavy as hell (2 Go files just for editing CSS or PHP is insane).
If you want to write code, it may be useful, especially if you like to share and discuss things. For a common user it is just a very heavy version of Notepad, with too many options to feel safe. Code yes, salad recipe - no.