Alternatives to Skywriter for all platforms with any license

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Lightweight Custom Language Definitions Auto-saving Autocompletion ... Block edit Code formatting Color coding Column edit mode Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Portable Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Tabbed interface Add a feature

4205 Like
Codeanywhere

Codeanywhere is a code editor in a browser with a powerful ftp client integrated, and all popular web formats are supported (HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and XML). The...

Freemium Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad
Cloud IDE Cloud coding Browser based Container virtualization ... Web browser IDE Add a feature

40 Like
CotEditor

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings. Scriptable:...

Free Open Source Mac
macOS-like Colored Text File Versioning Add a feature

23 Like
SynWrite

SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. SynWrite features: syntax highlighting for lots of languages;...

Free Open Source Windows Total Commander
Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

28 Like
Editra

Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

21 Like
- Discontinued The latest version available for download from the website is nearly 5 years old, from 2013. The last sign of activity on the blog ( a blog post ) is from 2015.
MadEdit

MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets. MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

10 Like
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
HippoEDIT

HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use Windows text editor, primarily targeted at power users and programmers. It has modern and lightweight user interface, which...

Commercial Windows
Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

10 Like
Text Editor Pro

Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles...

Free Open Source Windows
Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

8 Like
eduPad

Real-time collaborative text-editor. No account required. Edits highlighted in authors color. Infinite undo history. Syntax highlighting for editing code. Copy of...

Free Web Etherpad
Real time collaboration Add a feature

11 Like
FoldingText

FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.

Commercial Mac
No features added Add a feature

6 Like
NoteTab

NoteTab is packed with time-saving productivity tools that no other text or HTML editor has.

Freemium Windows
Search and replace Add a feature

19 Like
Ynote Classic

Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent...

Free Open Source Windows
Support for Large File Automatic Indentation Autocompletion Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

7 Like
Devpad

Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua...

Free Open Source Windows
Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

5 Like
DBook

DBook is a online service and solution to write large documents in a structured, collaborative and secure way.

Freemium Web
Collaborative writing Distraction-free UI Real time collaboration Add a feature

4 Like
- Discontinued Site/service not accessible.
BabelPad

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...

Free Windows PortableApps.com
Multiple languages Portable Support for Unicode Add a feature

4 Like