CotEditor Alternatives

CotEditor is described as 'Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to CotEditor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best CotEditor alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CotEditor are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. HippoEDIT icon
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    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 supports different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File Explorer and...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Haystack IDE icon
     1 like

    The canvas-based IDE that makes navigation and refactoring 10x faster.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. Erbele icon
     1 like

    Erbele is a feature-rich text editor for macOS Sierra. Forked in 2016 from the Fraise github repository which was discontinued years ago. The author's main interest is to keep the popular app alive.

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
     
  4. The CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is a drag-and-drop HTML Editor with built-in FTP uploading. It has wizards for tables, frames, forms, and fonts, and comes with all HTML 4.0 and XHTML tags.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Notepad 4 icon
     5 likes

    A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

    60 Notepad 4 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Editor.do icon
     1 like

    Editor.do is an all-in-one online IDE and hosting solution for creating, coding, and deploying static websites quickly. With over 1000 templates and libraries, it's ideal for developers of all levels.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. BowPad icon
     10 likes

    BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Howl icon
     6 likes

    Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. ConTEXT icon
     10 likes

    ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. MadEdit icon
     13 likes

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  12.  1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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