Lime Text Alternatives

Lime Text is described as 'Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Lime Text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Lime Text alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lime Text are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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Lime Text alternatives page was last updated Jun 2, 2023

CudaText
54 likes
CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.
196 CudaText alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
Russia
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Flathub
Haiku
+3
Is CudaText a good alternative to Lime Text?
Bluefish Editor
162 likes
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
213 Bluefish Editor alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
International
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Flathub
Haiku
Is Bluefish Editor a good alternative to Lime Text?
Lapce
26 likes
Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
190 Lapce alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application types
Code Editor
IDE
Origin
China
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is Lapce a good alternative to Lime Text?
PSPad
204 likes
PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.
172 PSPad alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
Czechia
EU
Platforms
Windows
+3
Is PSPad a good alternative to Lime Text?
Xed
23 likes
A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.
160 Xed alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
Ireland
EU
Platforms
Linux
+4
Is Xed a good alternative to Lime Text?
jEdit
115 likes
jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...
138 jEdit alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
International
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is jEdit a good alternative to Lime Text?
Graviton Editor
17 likes
Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.
183 Graviton Editor alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
Spain
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is Graviton Editor a good alternative to Lime Text?
GNOME Builder
20 likes
Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.
57 GNOME Builder alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application types
IDE
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Flathub
GNOME
Flatpak
+4
Is GNOME Builder a good alternative to Lime Text?
CodeRunner
17 likes
A simple programmer's editor with a tightly-integrated console.

It's excellent for rapidly prototyping code with its super fast edit-run-edit -run-save workflow, and its Cocoa integration gives it a real edge over the command line.

It has syntax highlighting and code co.
16 CodeRunner alternatives
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application type
Code Editor
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Mac
Is CodeRunner a good alternative to Lime Text?
Caret
32 likes
Caret is a lightweight-but-powerful programmer's editor running as a Chrome Packaged App. Inspired by Sublime and built on top of the Ace editing component, it offers:
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Chrome OS
Google Chrome
+1
Is Caret a good alternative to Lime Text?
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
Is BabelPad a good alternative to Lime Text?
Runestone
4 likes
A performant, lightweight, and simple plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more.
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary (MIT)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
Denmark
EU
Platforms
iPhone
iPad
+3
Is Runestone a good alternative to Lime Text?