FavoText Alternatives

FavoText is described as 'Text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to FavoText for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best FavoText alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FavoText are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.

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FavoText alternatives page was last updated Dec 15, 2021
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  1. CudaText icon
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    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

    188 CudaText alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Customizable
    3.  Support for Themes
    4.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Native application
    3.  Minimap
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Command palette
    6.  Autocompletion
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Portable
    9.  Works Offline
    10.  No registration required
    11.  Dark Mode

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  2. Windows Notepad icon
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    Fast, streamlined editor with extensive features, bundled with Windows since 1985. Supports plain text, UTF-8, and over 100 languages with enhanced functionality since 2018, including dark mode, Bing search, and large file handling.

    139 Windows Notepad alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  Simple text editor
    2.  Support for Unicode
    3.  Save as txt
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Bundled with Windows

    Windows Notepad VS FavoText

     
  3. Aptana Studio icon
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    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

    119 Aptana Studio alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The last update is from Feb 2021 and the last release is from Jul 2018.

    Aptana Studio Features

    1.  Real time collaboration
    2.  Support for FTP

    Aptana Studio VS FavoText

     
  4. Lapce icon
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    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    188 Lapce alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • CN flagChina

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Built-in terminal emulation
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5. Git icon  Git Support
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Full-Text Search
    8.  Portable
    9.  Ad-free
    10.  Works Offline
    11.  Dark Mode
    12.  Modal editor

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  5. PSPad icon
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    PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.

    166 PSPad alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Support for MarkDown
    3.  Support for scripting
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Portable
    6.  WYSIWYG Support
    7.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    8.  Code Formatting
    9.  Ad-free
    10.  Works Offline
    11.  Hex Editor
    12.  ASCII to Hex

    PSPad VS FavoText

     
  6. UltraEdit icon
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    UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    204 UltraEdit alternatives

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    UltraEdit Features

    1.  Column based text editing
    2.  Support for large files
    3.  Hex Editor

    UltraEdit VS FavoText

     
    • UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to FavoText.

    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryFavoText is also Paid and Proprietary
  7. SciTE icon
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    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    150 SciTE alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce

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  8. Bluefish Editor icon
     160 likes
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    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.

    209 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Bluefish Editor Features

    1.  Arduino
    2.  PHP IDE
    3.  Support for SFTP

    Bluefish Editor VS FavoText

     
  9. Leafpad icon
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    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.

    98 Leafpad alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • MacPorts
    Discontinued

    Last stable release is from 2010. http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/leafpad/

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Simple text editor
    2.  Text editing
    3.  Graphical User Interface
    4.  Gtk
    5.  Drag and Drop

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  10. CotEditor icon
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    Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

    156 CotEditor alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • JP flagJapan

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  macOS-like
    2.  Colored Text
    3.  File Versioning
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  No Coding Required
    9.  Syntax Highlighting
    10.  Works Offline

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  11. JetBrains Fleet icon
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    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.

    189 JetBrains Fleet alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Code Formatting
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Autocompletion
    6.  Support for MarkDown

    JetBrains Fleet VS FavoText

     
  12. EmEditor icon
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    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.

    122 EmEditor alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    EmEditor Features

    1.  Import CSV Data
    2. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    3.  Support for Large File
    4.  Support for Unicode

    EmEditor VS FavoText

     
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