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 Portable Tabbed interface ... Auto-saving Autocompletion Block edit Code formatting Color coding Column edit mode Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for FTP Integrated Search Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Side-by-Side comparison Add a feature

4237 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 Web-Based 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...
- 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.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

21 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

9 Like
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...
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

10 Like
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
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
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
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.
- Discontinued Site/service not accessible.
Freemium Web
Collaborative writing Distraction-free UI Real time collaboration Add a feature

4 Like
Eddie

Eddie is a programmers editor for Mac OSX and Gnome Linux. Inspired by the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, Eddie brings some of it's powerful features into a...

Free Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

3 Like