gedit Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to gedit is Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim. Text Editors like gedit are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Android.

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  1. Basic Notepad is a plain and simple text editor. You can use this wonderful too to process your plain text documents easy without any text formatting.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Hacker Pad icon
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    Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.

    114 Hacker Pad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. IT-Edit icon
     1 like

    IT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing interface and terminals in the same window as the editor.

    121 IT-Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. QuickNote icon
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    Virtual scrapbook for Desktop with a plain text editor. With Quicknote, in its resizable window you can jot down your notes and organize them in categories. Beneath the normal text functions, it can let you directly access frequently run programs, manage windows tasks, and even...

    146 QuickNote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. A programming editor for DOS environments. More specifically, it is something that looks like a programming editor for DOS environments.

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    • MS-DOS
    • Windows
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  6. Textplorer icon
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    Textplorer supports data field coloring in structured files, ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, MAC or user defined character sets, CRLF detection, bookmarks, fast load of large files,...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Nextpad icon
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    Nextpad is Fast, Beautiful and lightweight Notepad app designed for Windows 10. It lets you create, edit, view or print your file very easily and efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8.  1 like

    ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. MadEdit icon
     13 likes

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    133 MadEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  10. Notepas icon
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    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

    109 Notepas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. GNOME Text Editor is a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile
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  12. Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML autocompletion...

    105 Pe (Programmer’s Editor) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Haiku
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