Open Source Geany Alternatives
Geany is described as 'small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages'. There are more than 100 alternatives to Geany for various platforms. The best alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Geany are Atom (Free, Open Source), Vim (Free, Open Source), Eclipse (Free, Open Source) and Brackets (Free, Open Source).
- Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. View 197 alternatives to Notepad++
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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Simple and with a lot of plugins. Love it! - Extensible, cross-platform text editor with a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes. View 185 alternatives to Atom
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron / Atom Shell
It is a simple text editor designed to handle code. It is free like Geany and supports all platforms. Granted it isn't as light as Geany, I still feel it resides in the same middle ground between only storing and editing text and a full IDE.Atom is not an IDE, just a text editor. - 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. View 176 alternatives to Vim
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
- Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. View 149 alternatives to Eclipse
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. View 98 alternatives to Brackets
Discontinued
The last version 1.14.2 has no .deb version for Linux, and seems to crash on Mac when launching. More generally, the development of the project seems to be paused or stopped.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Binary releases of Visual Studio Code without Microsoft branding, telemetry and licensing. View 164 alternatives to VSCodium
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins. View 156 alternatives to gedit
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- GNOME
- OpenSolaris
- Cross-platform Python and Django IDE with on-the-fly code analysis and code quality tools, graphical debugger, VCS integration and more. View 66 alternatives to PyCharm
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. View 119 alternatives to GNU nano
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
nano is a text editor, not an IDE - The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI... View 118 alternatives to Kate