GNU nano Alternatives

GNU nano is described as 'Small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GNU nano for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best GNU nano alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU nano are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Zed Editor.

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  1. Code Writer icon
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    Code Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.

    181 Code Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. ptext icon
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    A nano like text editor built with pure C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. FoldingText icon
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    FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Jottr icon
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    A simple, opinionated plain text editor designed for writers, journalists and researchers. Jottr is not meant to be a full-featured text editor, but rather a simple and easy to use tool for writing. It's not aimed at developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Devpad icon
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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.

    164 Devpad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. jdTextEdit icon
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    jdTextEdit is a powerful texteditor with a lot of features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Jane icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    A programming editor for DOS environments. More specifically, it is something that looks like a programming editor for DOS environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • MS-DOS
    • Windows
     
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    Celebrating transience, Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don't need keeping. Designed for keyboard workflows on desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  10. Rustroid icon
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    A Rust IDE for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  11. BowPad icon
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    BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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