Sublime Text 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. ... Better looking UI and it's available across all platforms. Also, Package Control is amazing Akoot • Mar 2017 • 14 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree It's fast and has powerful editor features. Usability and UX of Sublime Text are just outstanding. Guest • May 2017 • 9 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree FTP is a lot easier to use than in Sublime, where you need to install a package manager and install a package like Sublime FTP, which isn't nearly as user-friendly as Notepad++. Guest • Nov 2017 • 6 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree It has all the features I need without having to install more than a few extensions. 914ian914 • Feb 2018 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Not similar to NotePad++ at all Guest • Apr 2018 Disagree Agree Modern looking UI, fast and powerful editor, lots of plugins/package that will help you code. I use both sublime and atom for most of the time. rickysantoso • Jul 2018 Disagree Agree It refresh files automatically. Very good for log files User4168935 • Feb 2019 Disagree Agree Notepad++ allows toggling bookmarks with a single click. CeesT • Mar 2017 • 7 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree it is much better the Notepad++ Guest • Sep 2015 Disagree Agree Much polished UI and better search. techcrank • May 2017 Disagree Agree Search and replace is not upto the level of notepad++ Guest • Mar 2017 • 8 agrees and 12 disagrees Disagree Agree Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Multiple cursors ... Customizable Syntax Highlighting Auto-saving Autocompletion Automatic packaging Code completion Directory structure Fullscreen support Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Plugin API Portable Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Text editing Auto-Refresh Add a feature 1748 Like
Visual Studio Code 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. Yet another simple tool reimplemented in the extremely bloated Electron framework. No thanks. Guest • Feb 2018 • 63 agrees and 44 disagrees Disagree Agree Very nice and fresh software for source code editing with a lot of features swood544 • Mar 2018 • 9 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Incredibly performant and versatile editor. With the feeling of an editor and the power of an IDE avitalbennatan • Mar 2017 • 13 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree It has everything that a developer needs! Good extensions for any language, good themes made by users, built in Git, and much more! Guest • Jul 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Has all same features of Notepad++! also smarter!!!!! Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Open source and a very versatile editor Guest • Oct 2017 Disagree Agree Loads of features and extensions. Microsoft really knows how to make good development tools. Guest • Oct 2018 Disagree Agree Cross-platform, superior highlighting and plugins. CeesT • Jan 2019 Disagree Agree Open source, handles many different languages, extensible. What's not to love? Guest • May 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Powerful, fast, free, fully customize-able, and looks nice. Guest • Jul 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Built-in Terminal Lightweight Syntax Highlighting ... Autocompletion Customizable GIT support Intellisense Code completion Support for Javascript Multiple cursors Night mode/Dark Theme Bugs C# Scripting Code formatting Code navigation Color coding of code Electron based Embedded debugger Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Git integration MarkDown support Mercurial support Minimap PHP IDE Run Android Apps on Desktop Support for NodeJS Version and Source control Add a feature 568 Like
Atom 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... What should be a simple application is implemented in the extremely bloated Electron framework. No thanks, I'll take something native. Guest • Feb 2018 • 89 agrees and 31 disagrees Disagree Agree Atom isn't lightweight as Notepad++ Guest • Aug 2017 • 10 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Despite sometimes high demanding (for an text editor), good as an Editor/IDE. Guest • May 2016 • 10 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree Agree Amazing UI, large variety of useful plugins, nice features like multiple cursors, open source and free to use Ruebz999 • Dec 2016 • 5 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree Great UI. Great Packages (extensions). Support for several programming languages. Great developers and community. Free and Open Source. Guest • Dec 2016 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree More beautiful and has much more tools donoai • Apr 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Cross-platform, modern, fast, great UI, great UX, extensible, fast community-driven development, stable... cblock • Apr 2017 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees 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 2 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 • 1 agrees and 3 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 • 1 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree It's easy to use, predictable, and very extensible. Smarter than VS Code, easier than Notepad++. VenHayz • Jul 2017 • 0 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Customizable Support for Themes Package Control ... Community based GIT support Teletype Autocompletion Clean design Code completion Collaborative writing Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Folder Hierarchy Fuzzy Finder GitHub integration Gitlab integration Hackable Integrated Development Environment Interior Design Live collaboration Minimap Modular System Multiple languages Multiple cursors Support for Multiple programming languages Distraction-free UI Package Manager Plugin API Plugin manager Real time collaboration Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Unit Testing Add a feature 927 Like
Vim 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... 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 • 48 agrees and 29 disagrees Disagree Agree Serves same purpose, similar features, different approach, multiplatform, ubiquitous. marcinkowalski • Mar 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree I like to use the vim command line version on windows it feels pretty minimalistic and its appearance gives the impression it goes right to the job of editing text Guest • Mar 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree vim is a console app and relies on a special keyboard command syntax which users need to learn and know. It is already a joke that people do not manage to remember how to quit vi(m) not to mention all the other things people might not remember about the commands. superluminar • Jul 2018 Disagree Agree Fastest in use. You can improve your productivity and performance when writing. Guest • Jan 2017 • 4 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Lightweight, configurable, and fast. Has a lot of options, but all of them are very intuitive. Guest • Oct 2017 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Keyboard focused Lightweight ... Syntax Highlighting Batch Editing Configurable Dedication to home row Support for Large File Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature 1089 Like
Geany 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... Geany in functionality and interface is very similar to Notepad++ Guest • Feb 2016 • 10 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Simple, lightweight. But there're syntax highlighting and code completion. jovin • Feb 2017 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free, lightweight, multi platform, open source, customizable. What more do you want? Resdek • Aug 2017 • 7 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce Lightweight Code navigation Customizable Support for Large File ... Minimalistic Portable Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 479 Like
Brackets 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... Stop making text editors in Electron. It's gross. Guest • Feb 2018 • 66 agrees and 29 disagrees Disagree Agree lacking many features of notepad++ Guest • Jan 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree No FTP that works like the NpFTP Guest • Nov 2017 Disagree Agree because i like the UI more than notepad++ Guest • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree it's easy to use and is open source so a definite runner-up to notpad++ Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It has an auto complete feature which makes it better than Notepad++ techcrank • May 2017 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Free, easy to use, full of features Guest • Oct 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Live Preview Autocompletion Syntax Highlighting Built-in Level Editor ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File-sync Multiple languages Streamlined interface Add a feature 386 Like
gedit 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... Gedit can't fold code, can't make ident lines, and the ident is strange! Guest • Jul 2016 • 13 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree no sorting and don't reconize regular expression when 'replace' or search rmpbklyn • Sep 2015 • 9 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree Some essential plugins missing especially around code formatting tools Guest • Mar 2017 • 5 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD GNOME ... OpenSolaris Lightweight Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Spell checking ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 636 Like
Kate Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface. ... Great syntax highlighting, and good plugin support. Fast and easy to use. ricjac • May 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Kate is a fast, lightweight, open source alternative to Notepad++ with slick, simple, and modern UI. Compared to Notepad++ it is also available on Linux, not just on Windows. Guest • Oct 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE Code formatting Support for regular expressions Syntax Highlighting Tabbed interface Add a feature 188 Like
GNU nano 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 Windows Linux BSD Haiku Command line interface Automatic Indentation Search and replace Terminal-based Add a feature 208 Like
GNU Emacs 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... Emacs is the be-all-end-all text editor. It takes a while to learn, but its code and text editing commands are extremely powerful. There's also a package manager for things like auto completion, automatic running, and more language support. Guest • Jan 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Scripting ... Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature 301 Like
Coda 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 Live css editing Real time collaboration Syntax Highlighting ... Team Collaboration Add a feature 281 Like
PSPad PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code... More stable with huge files. Has implemented great function in Special conversions: "Remove Accent from chars". Guest • Nov 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Excellent application, notepad++ sometime crashes and deletes the file contents (editing), PSPad doesn't have this problem. Guest • Jan 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree This is just a terrific tool to use when viewing text files. The file comparison tool works brilliantly to identify differences between files. The interface is clean and customizable. You can find all instances of a string of characters and use those to navigate through the file. You can also export that list to a new document. There are too many great features to list. Give it a try and see what you think. Guest • Oct 2018 Disagree Agree Free Windows Syntax Highlighting ASCII to Hex Edit files without creating a project Lightweight ... Portable Add a feature 195 Like
Komodo Edit 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 215 Like
Notepadqq Notepadqq is a linux clone (identical application) of Notepad++ For those looking to replace Notepad++'s UI and functionality with a similar editor but on Linux, this is by far the most similar to Notepad++. The other alternatives are similar in the sense that they are code/text editors but not that they look abnd work the same. Guest • Mar 2018 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Excellent editor. Pretty much the same UI as Notepad++ Guest • Sep 2016 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature 35 Like
Notepad2 Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of... Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website. Small and easy to use, supports syntax highlighting Hexaae • Feb 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It's a good alternative, but they should make tabs! Guest • Sep 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Faster startup, full replacement of notepad.exe for windows Guest • Feb 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Lightweight Portable Syntax Highlighting Add a feature 285 Like
