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- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Linux
BBEdit Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to BBEdit is Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Zed Editor and Eclipse. There's no shortage of Text Editors like BBEdit, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Chrome OS.
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A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
56 Chocolat alternativesChocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
kodeWeave is a realtime coding playground for HTML, CSS and Javascript. Similar to JSFiddle and JSBin, but kodeWeave was made to work offline but also as a prototyping application to build applications for desktop operating systems while on mobile devices.
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
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108 Caret alternativesCaret 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:
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- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
United States
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153 BabelPad alternativesBabelPad 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
United Kingdom
Collaborative text editor that works on local network or Internet and includes syntax highlighting for several popular programming languages.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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Platforms
- Mac
Germany
EU
Caxton is a native Mac workbench for text and data files of any size. Every delimited file opens as text and as a typed grid, edits made in either view show in the other, and saving writes the same file back. Nothing is imported anywhere.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- United States
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77 skEdit alternativesSimple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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107 Scribes alternativesA text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.
Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.
The res.
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- Linux
105 Pe (Programmer’s Editor) alternativesPe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML autocompletion...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Haiku
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