Phoenix Code is a text editor designed to make coding as intuitive and fun as playing a video game - specially crafted for web developers, designers, and students.
Open Source Notepad++ Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Notepad++ is Geany. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Notepad++ and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Notepad++ are Kate, Vim, VSCodium and gedit.
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37 Phoenix Code alternatives
74 Squircle CE alternativesSquircle CE is a fast, lightweight code editor and file manager with support for over 30 programming languages, remote file access via SFTP/FTP(S) and Git VCS integration. Whether you're a student, hobbyist, or professional developer, Squircle CE lets you write, manage, and...
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- Squircle CE is Free and Open Source
162 CotEditor alternativesSyntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.
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104 Leafpad alternativesLeafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.
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- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- MacPorts
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
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
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tvgoing1not online, works only for chrome and cloud based
It has similar options, you can select the language you are programming on and also has themes.
Its not an online, cloud based app. It works only for chrome.
- Caret is Free and Open Source
- Caret is Customizable
Pragtical is a code editor which was forked from Lite XL (also a fork of lite) written mostly in Lua with a focus on been practical rather than minimalist. The name of the editor is a mixture of the words pragmatic and practical, two words that properly define our development...
A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.
69 Notepad Next alternativesA cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Releases are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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...
85 Kakoune alternativesVim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.
159 Xed alternativesA 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.
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54 Xed Editor alternativesXed Editor is a versatile text and code editor designed specifically for Android devices, offering users the ability to create, edit, and manage their text and code files with ease on their mobile devices.
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Only one I tried that just works like a mobile app should instead of trying to make you pretend like you're sitting at a desktop / laptop with a keyboard.