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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The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE...

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Kate alternatives page was last updated Sep 14, 2024
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  1. Lines code editor icon

    Lines code editor

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Responsive preview, code outline, project explorer, tabs. (new version 5.2)

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Built-in Color Picker
    5.  Javascript scripting
    6.  External commands
    7.  Integrated Search
    8.  Integrated Web Browser

    Lines code editor VS Kate

     
  2. Scribes icon

    Scribes

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    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

    Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

    The res.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Scribes simple and sleek (startup)
    Discontinued

    Last release on 2011.

    Scribes Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Gtk

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  4. Textosaurus icon

    Textosaurus

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    Simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Textosaurus screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last GitHub commit on Sep 2020 and last release on Dec 2019.

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Code Formatting
    3.  Color coding
    4.  Native GUI

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  5. Ki Editor icon

    Ki Editor

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    Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
    Ki Editor screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Full-Text Search
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Syntax Highlighting
    8.  Automatic Indentation
    9.  Modal editor
    10.  Built-in File Manager
    11.  Multiple Cursors

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  6. jdTextEdit icon

    jdTextEdit

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    jdTextEdit is a powerful texteditor with a lot of features.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Mainwindow

    Properties

    1.  Configurable

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Autocompletion
    3.  Portable
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Python-based
    6.  QT Based

    jdTextEdit VS Kate

     
  7. Nota (Maui Applications) icon

    Nota (Maui Applications)

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    Nota is a convergent text editor. Nota is easy to use, with a simple interface by default. Nota supports syntax highlighting for various languages, focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, colors, a integrated side panel and more.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • MX flagMexico

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Nota (Maui Applications) screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Nota (Maui Applications) VS Kate

     
  9. Tilde icon

    Tilde

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    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Tilde screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Full-Text Search
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Terminal-based

    Tilde VS Kate

     
  10. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Mystix screenshot 1
    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 Kate

     
  11. NoteTab icon

    NoteTab

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    NoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Windows Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows
    NoteTab screenshot 1

    NoteTab Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Search and Replace

    NoteTab VS Kate

     

  12. Vis

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    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vis screenshot 1

    Vis Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Modal editor

    Vis VS Kate

     
  13. Text icon

    Text

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    Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    Text screenshot 1

    Text Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3. Google Drive icon  Google Drive integration
    4. Dropbox icon  Sync with Dropbox

    Text VS Kate

     
  14. Caret-T icon

    Caret-T

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    Fork of Caret Editor that has full Tern integration (Intellisense for Javascript)

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    Caret-T screenshot 1

    Caret-T VS Kate

     
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