Espresso AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors & Code EditorsIDEs for Windows

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Espresso alternatives page was last updated Dec 15, 2021
  1. Visual Studio Code icon
     1281 likes

    Visual Studio Code is a free and extensible code editor for building web, desktop, and mobile applications, using any programming language and framework.

    210 Visual Studio Code alternatives
    Visual Studio Code screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS

    Properties

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Customizable
    3.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  IDE
    3.  Built-in terminal emulation
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Code Completion
    6.  Multiple languages
    7.  Git Support
    8.  GitHub Integration
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  Supports Python
    11.  C++
    12.  Source code debugging
    13.  Multiple Cursors
    14.  Graphical User Interface
    15.  Support for MarkDown
    16.  Auto Update
    17.  Plug-ins
    18.  Support for Node.js
    19.  Support for Javascript
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    • Most users think Visual Studio Code is a great Espresso alternative.

    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular Web-based, Mac & Linux alternative to Espresso.

    • Visual Studio Code is Free and ProprietaryEspresso is Paid and Proprietary
    • Visual Studio Code is CustomizableEspresso is not according to our users
  2. VSCodium icon
     319 likes

    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

    199 VSCodium alternatives
    VSCodium screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Electron

    Properties

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Customizable
    3.  Privacy focused
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Prevent telemetry
    2.  IDE
    3.  MIT License
    4.  Autocompletion
    5.  Git integration
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Syntax Highlighting
    8.  Minimap
    9.  Color coding
    10.  Built-in terminal emulation
    11.  Support for MarkDown
    12.  Code navigation
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  3. Sublime Text icon
     1999 likes

    Powerful editor blending code, markup, and prose editing with enhanced features like multi-tab selection, side-by-side definition viewing, and multiple selection tools for swift code navigation.

    198 Sublime Text alternatives
    Sublime Text screenshot 1

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Customizable
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  Works Offline

    Features

    1.  Package Control
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  IDE
    4.  Multiple Cursors
    5.  Text editing
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Simple text editor
    8.  Tabbed interface
    9.  Plugin manager
    10.  Git integration
    11.  Support for MarkDown
    12.  Distraction-free
    13.  Git Support
    14.  Plugin API
    15.  Configuration Management
    16.  Fullscreen support
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    • Sublime Text is the most popular commercial alternative to Espresso.

    • Sublime Text is Paid and ProprietaryEspresso is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Sublime Text is Lightweight and CustomizableEspresso is not according to our users
  4. Vim icon
     1306 likes

    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 GUI version called GVim.

    209 Vim alternatives
    Vim screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Keyboard focused
    3.  Customizable
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  No registration required

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Hackable
    3.  Well documented
    4.  Modal editor
    5.  Command line interface
    6.  Support for MarkDown
    7.  Portable
    8.  Batch Editing
    9.  Terminal-based
    10.  Macro Recording
    11.  Built-in terminal emulation
    12.  Support for Large File
    13.  Dedication to home row
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  5. Notepad3 icon
     52 likes

    Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more.

    208 Notepad3 alternatives
    Supports RTL languages out of the box.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Works Offline

    Features

    1.  Support for Unicode
    2.  Small-footprint
    3.  Multiple languages
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Search and Replace
    6.  Portable
    7.  Support for regular expressions
    8.  Dark Mode
    9.  Support for Right-to-Left
    10.  Support for MarkDown
    11.  Autocompletion
    12.  Full-Text Search
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  6. Lapce icon
     25 likes

    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    194 Lapce alternatives
    Lapce screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Support for Themes
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Works Offline

    Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Built-in terminal emulation
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Git Support
    5.  Full-Text Search
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  Modal editor
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  7. Bluefish Editor icon
     160 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    216 Bluefish Editor alternatives
    Bluefish Editor screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Bluefish Editor Features

    1.  Arduino
    2.  PHP IDE
    3.  Support for SFTP
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  8. JetBrains Fleet icon
     8 likes

    Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.

    193 JetBrains Fleet alternatives
    JetBrains Fleet screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Support for MarkDown
    4.  Autocompletion
    5.  Code Formatting
    JetBrains Fleet iconEspresso Icon

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  9. SynWrite icon
     30 likes

    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    168 SynWrite alternatives
    SynWrite screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander

    SynWrite Features

    1.  Spell Checking
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Portable
    4.  Tree structure
    Discontinued

    Last update was on 29-08-2017. Synwrite is continued on CudaText.Only there is no Total Commander plug-in with CudaText.

    SynWrite iconEspresso Icon

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  10. Devpad icon
     7 likes

    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

    171 Devpad alternatives
    Devpad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Devpad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
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  11. TweakStyle icon
     16 likes

    An IDE tailor-made for web design and frontend development.

    88 TweakStyle alternatives
    TweakStyle screenshot 1

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    TweakStyle Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Code Completion
    3.  Coding
    4.  Support for styluses
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  12. Foopad icon
     1 like

    Foopad is nondestructive source code editor / integrated development environment made to make your dev life better. Foopad has some unique features and can be customized to be like simple notepad or full IDE.

    93 Foopad alternatives
    Foopad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Foopad iconEspresso Icon

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