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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  1. Syncplify.me Notepad! icon

    Syncplify.me Notepad!

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    Notepad! is the free, powerful, feature-rich replacement for your Windows Notepad. This software is completely free to use, for both personal and business purposes. With multi-document editing, split editing (two views of the same document, side by side, with synchronized...

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Syncplify.me Notepad! Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Support for regular expressions
    4.  Support for Large File
    5.  Tabbed interface

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  2. Ynote Classic icon

    Ynote Classic

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    Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent and autocompletion. It can highlight any language you like using Regular Expressions.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Discontinued

    The last release was in July 2018.

    Ynote Classic Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Autocompletion
    3.  Support for Large File
    4.  Automatic Indentation
    5.  Support for regular expressions

    Ynote Classic VS Jane

     
  4. xPad. icon

    xPad.

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    xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Discontinued

    xPad is no longer developed or maintained, but it can be still downloaded from its webpage.

    xPad. VS Jane

     
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    EmEditor

    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.

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  6. Poly Edit Lite icon

    Poly Edit Lite

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    PolyEdit Lite is a multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is fast, small, and easy-to-use.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Discontinued

    No changes since 23 Jul 2010.http://www.polyedit.com/news.html

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  7. Mystix icon

    Mystix

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    Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.3.1, released in November 2005, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Mystix Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Multiple languages
    3.  Support for regular expressions

    Mystix VS Jane

     
  8. MetroTextual icon

    MetroTextual

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    MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    MetroTextual screenshot 1

    MetroTextual Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    MetroTextual VS Jane

     
  10. skEdit icon

    skEdit

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    Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.

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    • Mac
    Main editor window

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  11. PHP Studio icon

    PHP Studio

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    PHP Studio is an easy-to-use and comprehensive development solution for PHP based websites and applications. This advanced PHP editor has many features that will streamline complete development process of editing, debugging and deploying of PHP applications for both beginner and...

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    • Windows
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  12. Climacs

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    Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) library, called ESA, that provides an Emacs-style user interface, rather than the normal CLIM UI.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Images being moved around like any other buffer object
    Discontinued

    No update since 2007. See https://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/#news

    Climacs Features

    1.  EMACS

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  13. Yet Another NFO Viewer icon

    Yet Another NFO Viewer

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    The Yet Another NFO Viewer or simply YaNvi is intended to be a small, light and hopefully fast tool to properly view ASCII artwork files in DOS encoding (with extensions NFO, ASC and DIZ).

    7 Yet Another NFO Viewer alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. Textplorer icon

    Textplorer

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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,...

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    Several instances of TEP showing different formatting

    Textplorer Features

    1.  Hex Editor
    2.  Support for Large File

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  15. Code Writer icon

    Code Writer

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    Code Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Code Writer screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Dark Mode

    Code Writer VS Jane

     
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