Kate Alternatives
Kate is described as 'The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Kate for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Haiku. The best alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Kate are Notepad++, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.
Kate alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or IDEs. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Kate.Visual Studio Code
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Proprietary
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
184 alternatives to Visual Studio Code- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
Visual Studio Code is a free and extensible code editor for building web, desktop, and mobile applications, using any programming language and framework.
Visual Studio Code Features
Notepad++
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
216 alternatives to Notepad++- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
Notepad++ Features
Notepad++ vs Kate opinions
it has a lot of the same features but without being natively cross-platform(I think I got it to work in wine. I have seen linux-ports in the kde/ubuntu repos )
0VSCodium
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Code Editor
- IDE
- Text Editor
178 alternatives to VSCodium- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Code - OSS (vscode)
This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.
VSCodium Features
Sublime Text
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Paid • Proprietary
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
189 alternatives to Sublime Text- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.
Sublime Text Features
Sublime Text vs Kate opinions
It looks identical to kate, with same functionalities. For me it's even better.
-1It's literally Kate except it costs money.
-1Vim
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
193 alternatives to Vim- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.
Vim Features
Neovim
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
83 alternatives to Neovim- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD
Neovim is Vim out of the box.
Neovim Features
GNU nano
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
132 alternatives to GNU nano- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.
gedit
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
170 alternatives to gedit- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- GNOME
- OpenSolaris
Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.
gedit Features
gedit vs Kate opinions
It's an alternative in every way, except Kate has a little bit more features, as it is a KDE app.
1Geany
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
135 alternatives to Geany- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Xfce
Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME -...
Geany Features
GNU Emacs
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
- IDE
159 alternatives to GNU Emacs- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Homebrew
- Android
- F-Droid
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:
GNU Emacs Features