Howl Alternatives

Howl is described as 'General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Howl for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Howl alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Howl are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Nova icon

    Nova

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    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Textastic

     16 likes

    Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  4. Pluma icon

    Pluma

     17 likes

    Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

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    • Linux
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    EmEditor

    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split v...

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    GNOME Builder

     21 likes

    Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.

    64 GNOME Builder alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
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    jEdit

     114 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Komodo IDE

     51 likes

    Code smarter and faster with Komodo IDE, the cross-platform professional development environment for dynamic languages and open technologies. Komodo's award-winning feature set includes standard editor functionality like code formatting, commenting, auto-indent and syntax...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    UI with dark theme
     
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    PyDev

     14 likes

    PyDev is a third-party plug-in for Eclipse. It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python supporting code refactoring, graphical debugging, code analysis and many other features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
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    Notepadqq

     42 likes

    Notepadqq is designed from developers, for developers. With its more than 100 supported languages, it is the ideal text editor for your daily tasks.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  15. Espresso icon

    Espresso

     87 likes

    Espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of CSSEdit .

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main window and preview
     
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