PlainForge Alternatives

PlainForge is described as 'Opens, edits, and saves local files with a focus on privacy, control, and productivity. No ads, no tracking, no login, and no internet permission' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PlainForge for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Flathub and BSD apps. The best PlainForge alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PlainForge are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Xed icon
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    A 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.

    162 Xed alternatives

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    • Linux
     
  2. Notepad Next icon
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    A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Releases are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. BBEdit icon
     48 likes

    BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

    122 BBEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  4. Kakoune icon
     21 likes

    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    90 Kakoune alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
     
  5. jEdit icon
     115 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Textastic icon
     16 likes

    Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.

    70 Textastic alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes.

    These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

    • Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes
    • Multi-language use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Notepad 4 icon
     4 likes

    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.

    55 Notepad 4 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  9. GNOME Builder icon
     21 likes

    Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
     
  10. Pragtical icon
     5 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Notepadqq icon
     42 likes

    Notepadqq is designed from developers, for developers. With its more than 100 supported languages, it is the ideal text editor for your daily tasks.

    35 Notepadqq alternatives

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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