MetroTextual Alternatives

MetroTextual is described as 'Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MetroTextual for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best MetroTextual alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MetroTextual are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.

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MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually...

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MetroTextual alternatives page was last updated Sep 12, 2020
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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.

    180 Lines code editor alternatives

    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 MetroTextual

     
  2. Aquamacs Emacs icon

    Aquamacs Emacs

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    An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Aquamacs Emacs screenshot 1

    Aquamacs Emacs Features

    1. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
    2.  EMACS

    Aquamacs Emacs VS MetroTextual

     
  4. Devpad icon

    Devpad

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    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Devpad screenshot 1

    Devpad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Devpad VS MetroTextual

     
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    EmEditor

    EmEditor is a versatile text, code, and CSV editor designed for Windows. It offers lightweight, user-friendly, and extendable platform, with both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. The software also features AI-assisted writing.

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    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.

    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

    Scribes VS MetroTextual

     
  7. Jane icon

    Jane

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    Jane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main Window
    Jane screenshot 2

    Jane Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Drag and Drop
    3.  Shell integration

    Jane VS MetroTextual

     
  8. 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

    Diakonos VS MetroTextual

     
  10. 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

    BowPad VS MetroTextual

     
  11. TEA icon

    TEA

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    TEA screenshot 1

    TEA Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  C++
    3.  Tabbed interface
    4.  Built-in File Manager
    5.  Built-in Image converter
    6.  Built-in Image viewer
    7.  Built-in archiver

    TEA VS MetroTextual

     
  12. Chocolat icon

    Chocolat

     12 likes
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    Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Text Editing

    Chocolat Features

    1.  Coding
    2.  Multiple Cursors
    3.  Split windows

    Chocolat VS MetroTextual

     
  13. Thunderpad icon

    Thunderpad

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    Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Thunderpad screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Thunderpad VS MetroTextual

     
  14. Notepas icon

    Notepas

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    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Notepas screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Cannot run on macOS Monterey and the last update is from 2016.

    Notepas Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for Unicode
    5.  GPLv3

    Notepas VS MetroTextual

     

  15. 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 MetroTextual

     
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