Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome


Brackets is described as 'Open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Brackets for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Brackets alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Brackets are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.


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.


Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms.


Code Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.








Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.




VisualNEO Web is the easiest authoring tool to develop Web Apps, for beginners and professionals. Drag and drop visual IDE. Use its simplified programming language (NeoScript), JavaScript or both for coding your Apps. Multilanguage interface.




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 and autocompletion. It can highlight any language you like using Regular Expressions.




4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).



PHP Code Editor is a web based interface to edit your code. PHP Code Editor works in almost any web browser, that supports Javascript. You can either access your files directly on your FTP server, where your webpage is located at.

A simple, lightweight and easy to use HTML editor worth having when you need to view and edit what document you want, as well as insert new HTML and CSS tags.
