1568 Like Sublime Text Good alternative? YES NO Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. ... Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Multiple cursors Autocompletion Automatic packaging ... Code completion Customizable Optimize for fast boot Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Better looking UI and it's available across all platforms. Also, Package Control is amazing Akoot • Mar 2017 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's fast and has powerful editor features. Usability and UX of Sublime Text are just outstanding. Guest • May 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Notepad++ allows toggling bookmarks with a single click. CeesT • Mar 2017 • 3 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree Search and replace is not upto the level of notepad++ Guest • Mar 2017 • 3 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree Agree
757 Like Atom Good alternative? YES NO A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable GIT support Package Control Support for Themes Community based ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions GitHub integration Gitlab integration Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Minimap Modular System Support for Multiple programming languages Distraction-free UI Plugin API Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Despite sometimes high demanding (for an text editor), good as an Editor/IDE. Guest • May 2016 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Cross-platform, modern, fast, great UI, great UX, extensible, fast community-driven development, stable... cblock • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Atom is a text editor that provides an all in one solution to all the absolute basic needs today's modern world expects in a notepad replacement. Sleek UI, extensible, cross-platform, and, actively developed, Atom is the defacto choice for the vast majority when wanting to replace notepad/NotePad++ with an editor that packs a real punch in default capabilities and usefulness. Guest • Jun 2017 Disagree Agree It's easy to use, predictable, and very extensible. Smarter than VS Code, easier than Notepad++. VenHayz • Jul 2017 Disagree Agree Atom can split windows and allow users to work on multiple files simultaneously, while also integrating plugins. I would say it's better than Notepad++ for many programming tasks. Guest • Sep 2015 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Open-source. Community-driven. A lot of high quality extensions available. Very simple and quick. A lot of customisation if you want. Guest • Apr 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Amazing UI, large variety of useful plugins, nice features like multiple cursors, open source and free to use Ruebz999 • Dec 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Great UI. Great Packages (extensions). Support for several programming languages. Great developers and community. Free and Open Source. Guest • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
979 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature Vim is a console app and require to know its commands to use it, while Notepad++ is UI driven, anyone can use it. Guest • Mar 2015 • 11 agrees and 9 disagrees Disagree Agree Fastest in use. You can improve your productivity and performance when writing. Guest • Jan 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
279 Like Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Built-in Terminal Customizable Intellisense Code completion Dark theme ... Lightweight Multiple cursors Bugs C# Scripting Embedded debugger Git integration GIT support MarkDown support Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Version and Source control Add a feature Incredibly performant and versatile editor. With the feeling of an editor and the power of an IDE avitalbennatan • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Open source, handles many different languages, extensible. What's not to love? Guest • May 2017 Disagree Agree It has everything that a developer needs! * Good extensions for any language * Good themes made by users * Built in Git * And many more!!! Guest • Jul 2017 Disagree Agree
341 Like Brackets Good alternative? YES NO Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Autocompletion Live Preview Multiple languages Syntax Highlighting Add a feature It has an auto complete feature which makes it better than Notepad++ techcrank • May 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
596 Like gedit Good alternative? YES NO Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD GNOME OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature no sorting and don't reconize regular expression when 'replace' or search rmpbklyn • Sep 2015 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Gedit can't fold code, can't make ident lines, and the ident is strange! Guest • Jul 2016 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Some essential plugins missing especially around code formatting tools Guest • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
423 Like Geany Good alternative? YES NO Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Xfce Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Geany in functionality and interface is very similar to Notepad++ Guest • Feb 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Simple, lightweight. But there're syntax highlighting and code completion. jovin • Feb 2017 Disagree Agree Free, lightweight, multi platform, open source, customizable. What more do you want? Resdek • Aug 2017 Disagree Agree
265 Like GNU Emacs Good alternative? YES NO GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting ... Terminal-based Add a feature
171 Like GNU nano Good alternative? YES NO GNU nano is a 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Haiku Automatic Indentation Command line interface Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature
261 Like Coda Good alternative? YES NO Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And a dash of SSH too. ... Commercial Mac iPhone iPad Built-in File Manager Real time collaboration Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
198 Like Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
243 Like TextMate Good alternative? YES NO TextMate is not an IDE but by using its powerful snippets, macros, and unique scoping system, it can often provide features that even a language specific IDE lacks. It... Commercial $ $ $ Open Source Mac Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Support for Themes Add a feature
129 Like Bluefish Editor Good alternative? YES NO Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for SFTP Add a feature
138 Like UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
139 Like TextWrangler Alternative? YES NO TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing... Free Mac Search and replace Support for Unicode Add a feature Discontinued The developers announced that development of TextWrangler has stopped, in favor of concentrating their efforts on the development of BBEdit. Quoted from the TextWrangler webpage, "We are sunsetting TextWrangler, and we encourage anyone interested in TextWrangler to download and use BBEdit instead."
