Kate Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   1DevTool

    2 likes

   1DevTool saves developers 40+ minutes every day by eliminating the constant switching between Chrome, terminal, AI tools, and notes apps. One workspace. Zero interruptions.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • IDE

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Ynote Classic

    8 likes

   Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent and autocompletion. It can highlight any language you like using Regular Expressions.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Code Editor
   • Text Editor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

   

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   Vy

    2 likes

   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)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   Ki Editor

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Code Editor

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Rust

   

   

   

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   BabelPad

    5 likes

   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

   Application type

   • Text Editor

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • PortableApps.com

   • United Kingdom

   

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   Textosaurus

    3 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Origin

   • Czechia
   • EU

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   • Czechia
   • EU

   

   

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   Scribes

    24 likes

   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.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Text Editor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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    Diakonos

     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    TEA

     7 likes

    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Text Editor
    • IDE

    Origin

    • Russia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Russia

    

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    Howl

     6 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Code Editor
    • Text Editor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    VbsEdit

     3 likes

    VbsEdit, the award-winning VBScript editor that dramatically reduces the time you spend writing .VBS scripts

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

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    Mystix

     3 likes

    Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

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