3977 Like Notepad++ Good alternative? YES NO Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Block edit Code formatting Color coding Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Live Preview Multiple languages Plugin manager Support for regular expressions Tabbed interface Add a feature
1572 Like Sublime Text Good alternative? YES NO Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. ... Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Multiple cursors Autocompletion Automatic packaging ... Code completion Customizable Optimize for fast boot Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
981 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature
983 Like Eclipse Good alternative? YES NO Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Autocompletion Java IDE Lossless quality Refactoring SCM Integration Add a feature
280 Like Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Built-in Terminal Customizable Intellisense Code completion Dark theme ... Lightweight Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration GIT support MarkDown support Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Version and Source control Add a feature
423 Like Geany Good alternative? YES NO Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Xfce Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
198 Like Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
275 Like Notepad2 Good alternative? YES NO Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
243 Like TextMate Good alternative? YES NO TextMate is not an IDE but by using its powerful snippets, macros, and unique scoping system, it can often provide features that even a language specific IDE lacks. It... Commercial $ $ $ Open Source Mac Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Support for Themes Add a feature
54 Like Qt Creator Good alternative? YES NO Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment which is part of the SDK for the Qt... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Autocompletion Refactoring Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
150 Like Notepad Good alternative? YES NO Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows. Free Windows Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows Add a feature
129 Like Bluefish Editor Good alternative? YES NO Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for SFTP Add a feature
139 Like TextWrangler Alternative? YES NO TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing... Free Mac Search and replace Support for Unicode Add a feature Discontinued The developers announced that development of TextWrangler has stopped, in favor of concentrating their efforts on the development of BBEdit. Quoted from the TextWrangler webpage, "We are sunsetting TextWrangler, and we encourage anyone interested in TextWrangler to download and use BBEdit instead."
33 Like Notepad2-mod Good alternative? YES NO A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature
26 Like Textadept Good alternative? YES NO Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Command line interface Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
