Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Go (Programming Language)
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux

Micro is described as 'Terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals' and is a popular Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Micro for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Micro alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Micro are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Vim and Zed Editor.

This is a portable version of the Mg editor from OpenBSD by an OpenBSD developer who did a bunch of overhaul work on the version of Mg found in the OpenBSD base system.

ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.



This tool can transform texts into a variety of formats/structures. It can assist tasks of data formatting and coding. Formatting steps can be stored and reused. The tool includes text-to-speech of various languages.




ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.



