PICO (the PIne COmposer) AlternativesText & Code Editors like PICO (the PIne COmposer)

PICO (the PIne COmposer) is described as 'PICO means "very small" and also stands for "PIne COmposer". PICO is designed to be a "simple editor", ie only the bare minimum of commands and simply to use. Very good for beginners who wish to write emails and posts' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PICO (the PIne COmposer) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best PICO (the PIne COmposer) alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like PICO (the PIne COmposer) are VSCodium, Vim, GNU Emacs and GNU nano.

More about PICO (the PIne COmposer)
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
PICO (the PIne COmposer) alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Visual Studio Code icon

    Visual Studio Code

     1367 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Free and extensible code editor with built-in Git support, smart IntelliSense, integrated debugger, 30,000+ extensions, works offline, supports markdown and syntax highlighting for numerous languages.

    201 Visual Studio Code alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Snapcraft
    Visual Studio Code screenshot 1
     

    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to PICO (the PIne COmposer).

    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular free alternative to PICO (the PIne COmposer).

    • Visual Studio Code is Free and ProprietaryPICO (the PIne COmposer) is Free and Open Source
    • Visual Studio Code is CustomizablePICO (the PIne COmposer) is not according to our users
  2. VSCodium icon

    VSCodium

     389 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

    194 VSCodium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Electron
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    VSCodium screenshot 1
     

    • VSCodium is the most popular Open Source alternative to PICO (the PIne COmposer).

    • VSCodium is Free and Open SourcePICO (the PIne COmposer) is also Free and Open Source
    • VSCodium is Customizable, Privacy focused and LightweightPICO (the PIne COmposer) is not according to our users
  4. Vim icon

    Vim

     1339 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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 GUI version called GVim.

    212 Vim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
    Vim screenshot 1
     
  5. GNU Emacs icon

    GNU Emacs

     387 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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 to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    178 GNU Emacs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
     

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to PICO (the PIne COmposer).

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourcePICO (the PIne COmposer) is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is Customizable, Privacy focused and LightweightPICO (the PIne COmposer) is not according to our users
  6. GNU nano icon

    GNU nano

     289 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    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 number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

    152 GNU nano alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    GNU nano screenshot 1
     
  9. Lapce icon

    Lapce

     27 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    189 Lapce alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Lapce screenshot 1
     
  10. Tilde icon

    Tilde

     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

    128 Tilde alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Tilde screenshot 1
     

  11. Vis

     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    150 Vis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vis screenshot 1
     
  12. Vy icon

    Vy

     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

    165 Vy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Vy screenshot 1
     
  13. IT-Edit icon

    IT-Edit

     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    IT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing interface and terminals in the same window as the editor.

    122 IT-Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    IT-Edit screenshot 1
     
  14. 4coder icon

    4coder

     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).

    165 4coder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    4coder screenshot 1
     
12 of 12 PICO (the PIne COmposer) alternatives