Buffer Text Editor Alternatives

Buffer Text Editor is described as 'Celebrating transience, Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don't need keeping. Designed for keyboard workflows on desktop' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Buffer Text Editor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Buffer Text Editor alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. Other great apps like Buffer Text Editor are Vim, gedit, GNU nano and TextMate.

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    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    150 Vis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Simple text editor, and text utils (powered by AI).

    13 Plain Text alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Web Browser
    • WebApps
     
    • Plain Text is the most popular Web-based alternative to Buffer Text Editor.

    • Plain Text is Free and ProprietaryBuffer Text Editor is Free and Open Source
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    PolyEdit Lite is a multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is fast, small, and easy-to-use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Janus is a simple, native Linux text editor. Supports UTF-8 and binary data through it's binary editing mode. Spiritual successor to Leafpad.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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