MS Paint IDE Alternatives

MS Paint IDE is described as 'People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs' and is a IDE in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MS Paint IDE for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best MS Paint IDE alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MS Paint IDE are Geany, Kate, gedit and Notepad3.

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MS Paint IDE alternatives page was last updated Jan 27, 2021
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  1. 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

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  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.

    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. CoffeeCup HTML Editor icon

    CoffeeCup HTML Editor

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    The CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is a drag-and-drop HTML Editor with built-in FTP uploading. It has wizards for tables, frames, forms, and fonts, and comes with all HTML 4.0 and XHTML tags.

    56 CoffeeCup HTML Editor alternatives

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    CoffeeCup HTML Editor screenshot 1

    CoffeeCup HTML Editor Features

    1.  Support for FTP
    2.  Support for SFTP

    CoffeeCup HTML Editor VS MS Paint IDE

     
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    HTMLPad

    HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor featuring AI-assisted code improvements, HTML validator, spell check, FTP access, snippet library, and multi-browser previews for effective web development.

    https://www.htmlpad.net
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    medit

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    medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.

    Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
    medit screenshot 1

    medit Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Tabbed interface

    medit VS MS Paint IDE

     
  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 MS Paint IDE

     
  8. Kod icon

    Kod

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    Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

    Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

    Goals and features

    Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

    Integrated scripting environment based on No.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Kod screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 2011. https://github.com/rsms/kod

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    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 MS Paint IDE

     
  11. 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

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  12. 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

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    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

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    Chocolat

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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 MS Paint IDE

     
  14. HTML-Kit icon

    HTML-Kit

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    HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages. HTML-Kit has received 95% thumbs up on Download.

    88 HTML-Kit alternatives

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

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  15. 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 MS Paint IDE

     
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