jEdit Alternatives

jEdit is described as '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' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to jEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best jEdit alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like jEdit are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. CodeBrew icon
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    Unleash the power of Java coding on your iPhone or iPad with CodeBrew - the ultimate Java Integrated Development Environment designed for developers on the go. Dive into the world of seamless coding, whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting your programming journey.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • CodeBrew is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to jEdit.

    • CodeBrew is Freemium and ProprietaryjEdit is Free and Open Source
  2. NINJA-IDE icon
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    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. EditPad Lite icon
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    EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:

    123 EditPad Lite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. Mousepad icon
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    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    77 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
     
  6. TwistPad icon
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    Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Xed Editor icon
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    Xed Editor is a versatile text and code editor designed specifically for Android devices, offering users the ability to create, edit, and manage their text and code files with ease on their mobile devices.

    53 Xed Editor alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
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    Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Kompad icon
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    Open source note application with desktop, web, and mobile web access features intuitive file organization, folder grouping, color-coded tags, side panel search, auto updates, word and character counts, reading time estimates, and customizable themes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Notepad 4 icon
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    A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

    52 Notepad 4 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  11. BabelPad icon
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    BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  12. ecode icon
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    Lightweight multi-platform code editor with hardware-accelerated GUI, customizable minimalist interface, syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, terminal and LSP support, plugin extensibility, unlimited editor splits, persistent project state, and portable, ad-free use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • FreeBSD
     
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