Pluma Alternatives for Windows
Pluma is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Pluma and loads of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Pluma are Notepad++, Sublime Text, Atom and Vim.
Pluma alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or IDEs. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Pluma.Visual Studio Code is more than just a code editor, it provides the tools and extensions to compile, debug, compare, refactor, and even manage code repositories all within a highly-customised development environment.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
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.
- Free Personal • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron / Atom Shell
Atom is an open-source, Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node.
Discontinued
Atom will be discontinued at the end of 2022: https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/
Atom vs Pluma opinions
JohnFastmanPluma is the MATE desktop's default, but simple text editor. Atom is far superior in functionality, support for extensions and it's still open source. If Pluma is not enough, Atom has to be: there's nothing better.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
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.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Code - OSS (vscode)
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.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Xfce
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 packages.
The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
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.