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

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Kate alternatives page was last updated Mar 20, 2025
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  1. Kod icon

    Kod

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    Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

    Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

    Goals and features

    Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

    Integrated scripting environment based on No.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Kod screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 2011. https://github.com/rsms/kod

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  2. BowPad icon

    BowPad

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows
    BowPad screenshot 1

    BowPad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Ribbon Interface

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  4. Editor icon

    Editor

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    Simple Android text editor.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    Editor screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Support for Themes
    3.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Ad-free

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  5. FoldingText icon

    FoldingText

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    FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    FoldingText screenshot 1

    FoldingText Features

    1.  No Subscription
    2.  Outline folding
    3.  Timer
    4.  Tagging
    5.  Coding

    FoldingText VS Kate

     

  6. Z-VI

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    Smallest Vi-clone text editor for Windows (62KB) that runs in terminal and SSH sessions.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IM flagIsle of Man

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Z-VI screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  No registration required

    Z-VI VS Kate

     
  7. Diakonos icon

    Diakonos

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Diakonos screenshot 1

    Diakonos Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Console-based

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    LopeEdit

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    LopeEdit is a powerful programmers editor and a replacement of Windows Notepad. It has tabs to select between open files, supports syntax highlighting of multiple programing languages (C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, XML, HTML, ASP, JSP, SQL, Cobol, C#, CSS...

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • ES flagSpain
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main Editor Window
    Bundleware

    The installation may contain adwares. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/

    LopeEdit Features

    1.  Hex Editor

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    Vy

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Vy screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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    Fastedit

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    Introducing Fastedit, designed to make editing and organizing your documents effortless. With the ability to open multiple tabs, you can easily edit or view multiple documents at once. The app also features line numbering and custom designs to personalize your experience.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Fastedit text editor Black Theme

    Fastedit Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Theme Customization
    3.  Vertical Tabs
    4.  Built-in themes
    5.  Automatic Indentation
    6.  Recycle Bin
    7.  Tabbed interface
    8.  Windows UWP

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  12. Yi icon

    Yi

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    Yi is a text editor written, and extensible in, the Haskell programming language. It can be made to behave like emacs or like vi.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    The Vty frontend
    Discontinued

    Project possibly abandoned. No activities for two years, and last release in 2017.In this GitHub issue, the developer discussed about the future of the project: https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/issues/1114

    Yi Features

    1.  EMACS

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    BabelPad

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    BabelPad screenshot 1

    BabelPad Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Portable
    4.  Support for Unicode
    5.  Multiple languages

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    Howl

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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

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Howl screenshot 1
    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

    Howl VS Kate

     
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