Paid Kate AlternativesCode & Text Editors like Kate

The best paid alternative to Kate is UltraEdit. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Kate and 11 is paid so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting paid alternatives to Kate are Nova, TextPad, HippoEDIT and FoldingText.

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  1. UltraEdit icon
     161 likes

    UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    211 UltraEdit alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Nova icon
     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  3. TextPad icon
     58 likes

    TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.

    125 TextPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. HippoEDIT icon
     10 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Editor.do icon
     1 like

    Editor.do is an all-in-one online IDE and hosting solution for creating, coding, and deploying static websites quickly. With over 1000 templates and libraries, it's ideal for developers of all levels.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Hacker Pad icon
     1 like

    Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. FavoText icon
     2 likes

    FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  8. Batch-Notepad that can replace, insert, delete, copy, and move text in multiple files in bulk! Perform advanced search and replace operations using RegEx substitutions. Supports multi-line replace, wildcards, match selection, case matching, Unicode!.

    55 Batch Text File Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Basic Notepad is a plain and simple text editor. You can use this wonderful too to process your plain text documents easy without any text formatting.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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