Edit Alternatives

Apps similar to Edit include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim. Text Editors like Edit are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and Android.

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  1. Vim Classic icon
     5 likes

    Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
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  2. EmEditor icon
     78 likes

    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.

    135 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Notepadng icon
     1 like

    Notepadng is a fork of a Notepadqq editor with Web-based editor component replaced by Scintilla for better user experience, stability and maintainability. It also incorporates original color themes from Notepad++ itself to replicate...

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. Fresh editor icon
     4 likes

    High-performance terminal text editor developed in Rust, offering fast startup, low latency, extensibility, customizable keybindings, menu-driven native UI, robust mouse support, powerful command palette, cross-platform support, and syntax highlighting.

    52 Fresh editor alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. GitHub Codespaces is an instant, cloud-based development environment that uses a container to provide you with common languages, tools, and utilities for development. GitHub Codespaces is also configurable, allowing you to create a customized development environment for your...

    28 Github Codespaces alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • GitHub
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  6. Kakoune icon
     21 likes

    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
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  7. Vampirio Code icon
     2 likes

    Vampirio Code is a versatile open source editor and IDE with syntax highlighting and multi-language compilation, integrated with various compilers and tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Textadept icon
     38 likes

    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 for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...

    100 Textadept alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. wxMEdit icon
     27 likes

    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. Light Table icon
     60 likes

    Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
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  11. Nova icon
     8 likes

    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Nova screenshot 1
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