Jane Alternatives

Jane is described as 'Is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Jane for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Jane alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Jane are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.

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Jane alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
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    Cold Turkey Writer won't let you quit until you finish your work. Like, literally will not quit.

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free

    Features

    1.  Distraction-free Writing
    2.  Application Blocker
    3.  Fullscreen support

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  2. ACiD View icon
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    ACiD View 6 is a multimedia viewer for Windows. Its the first to support a variety of both textmode and bitmap graphic formats such as ANSI/ASCII, XBIN, GIF, JPEG and PNG. Additional features include a modem-speed simulator, VGA previewing, and more!.

    7 ACiD View alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable

    ACiD View VS Jane

     
  3. Diakonos icon
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    Diakonos is a powerful and easy to use console-based text editor.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Diakonos Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Console-based

    Diakonos VS Jane

     
  4. BowPad icon
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    BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows

    BowPad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Ribbon Interface

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  5. Thunderpad icon
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    Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  6. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Cannot run on macOS Monterey and the last update is from 2016.

    Notepas Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for Unicode
    5.  GPLv3

    Notepas VS Jane

     
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    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Vis Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Modal editor

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    Nota is a convergent text editor. Nota is easy to use, with a simple interface by default. Nota supports syntax highlighting for various languages, focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, colors, a integrated side panel and more.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • MX flagMexico

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Nota (Maui Applications) VS Jane

     
  9. Vy icon
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    vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

    168 Vy alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

    Vy VS Jane

     
  10. Howl icon
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    Howl is a 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Discontinued

    The last version (0.6) is from April 2019.

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic
    3.  Customizable
    4.  Keyboard focused

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Programmable
    3.  Keyboard Shortcuts

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  11. HippoEDIT icon
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    HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use Windows text editor, primarily targeted at power users and programmers. It has modern and lightweight user interface, which supports different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File Explorer and...

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    HippoEDIT Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    HippoEDIT VS Jane

     
  12. BDV Notepad icon
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    It is a comfortable text editor and a Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge!

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

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