Editra Alternatives
Editra is described as 'Multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently it supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 60 programming languages' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Editra for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Editra alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Editra are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.
- Code Editor
- Free • Open Source
Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- MacPorts
DiscontinuedLast stable release is from 2010. http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/leafpad/
- 156 CotEditor alternatives
Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Japan
Platforms
- Mac
- 43 Bloodshed Dev-C++ alternatives
Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
DiscontinuedNo longer developed. Last version, 5 Beta 9.2 (4.9.9.2), released on February 21th 2005, is still downloadable, but a maintained version of Dev-C++ with updated code is
Orwell Dev-C++
Bloodshed Dev-C++ Features
- 122 EmEditor alternatives
EmEditor is a versatile text, code, and CSV editor designed for Windows. It offers lightweight, user-friendly, and extendable platform, with both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. The software also features AI-assisted writing.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
EmEditor Features
- 76 Mousepad alternatives
A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Xfce
- 92 TextWrangler alternatives
TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
DiscontinuedThe 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."
TextWrangler Features
- 77 ReText alternatives
ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.
- 113 BBEdit alternatives
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
BBEdit Features
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
- International
Platforms
- Linux
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
- International
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
jEdit Features
- 127 Programmer's Notepad alternatives
Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes.
These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.
- Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes
- Multi-language use.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
- Windows
Discontinuednot updated since 3 dec 2016
Programmer's Notepad Features