Pulsar Editor Alternatives

Pulsar Editor is described as 'A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Pulsar Editor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Pulsar Editor alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pulsar Editor are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.

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Pulsar Editor alternatives page was last updated Mar 3, 2025
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  1. Zasper icon
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    Zasper

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    A powerful IDE for data science, Zasper excels with massive concurrency support, enabling numerous simultaneous connections, minimal memory usage, and speedy performance. Suited for REPL-style data apps like Jupyter notebooks, fully supported on Mac with limited Linux support.

    65 Zasper alternatives
    Zasper screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Built-in terminal emulation
    8.  Data science
    9.  Version Control Integration
    10.  Electron based
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  2. Qt Creator icon
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    Qt Creator

     108 likes
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    Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) built for the maximum developer experience. Qt Creator runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop operating systems and allows developers to create software across desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms.

    135 Qt Creator alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Qt Creator Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Code Formatting
    6.  C++
    7.  QT Based
    8.  Visual studio intergration
    9.  Debugging
    10.  Refactoring
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  4. UltraEdit icon
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    UltraEdit

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    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 disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    209 UltraEdit alternatives
    UltraEdit features an integrated FTP browser and supports syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages, with more always in the works. And with an integrated SSH/telnet client, scripting, custom tools, macros and Smart Templates, UltraEdit's ready for any coding session.

    License model

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    UltraEdit Features

    1.  Column based text editing
    2.  Support for large files
    3.  Hex Editor
    From quick inline finds to massive replaces across your entire project, no one does search like UltraEdit. Find / replace across files, Perl regular expressions, column-based search, line filters, and more...when it comes to search, there's almost nothing UltraEdit can't do!
    UltraEdit's text editing features make editing lists and columns an intuitive experience, not the exercise in tedium it used to be. With features like multi-caret editing, column/block editing and multi-select, it's a simple text editor when you want it to be, and a multi-cursor power editor when you need it to be.
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    The environment you work in is a personal thing. And with UltraEdit's deeply customizeable new menuing system, your perfect in-app menu awaits. Our brand new menu allows you to switch between a full ribbon, compact ribbon and menu/toolbar system, all with only the buttons you'd like.
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    PSPad

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    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 explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.

    169 PSPad alternatives
    Main Window - Project Settings

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PSPad with project window, clips list template and LOG window...
    PSPad with all toolbars closed (F2 and Ctrl+F2)
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    Integrated full HEX editor

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Support for MarkDown
    3.  Support for scripting
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Portable
    6.  WYSIWYG Support
    7.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    8.  Code Formatting
    9.  Ad-free
    10.  Works Offline
    11.  Hex Editor
    12.  ASCII to Hex
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  7. SciTE icon
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    SciTE

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    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    153 SciTE alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  8. Bluefish Editor icon
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    Bluefish Editor

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    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    216 Bluefish Editor alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Bluefish Editor Features

    1.  Arduino
    2.  PHP IDE
    3.  Support for SFTP
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  10. Project IDX icon
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    Project IDX

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    Project IDX is an entirely web-based, integrated development environment. IDX can help you build and deploy applications in various tech stacks without the tedium of setting up development environments for yourself and others on your team.

    58 Project IDX alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Support for scripting
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  Batch Editing
    5.  Code Formatting
    6.  Syntax Highlighting
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Full-Text Search
    9.  Support for MarkDown
    10. Git icon  Git Support
    11.  Ad-free
    12.  Live Preview
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  11. CotEditor icon
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    CotEditor

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    Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

    157 CotEditor alternatives
    version 4 released 2020-11-14

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    version 4 released 2020-11-14
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    version 4 released 2020-11-14

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  macOS-like
    2.  Colored Text
    3.  File Versioning
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  No Coding Required
    9.  Syntax Highlighting
    10.  Works Offline
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  12. Trae icon
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    Trae

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    Trae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster.

    22 Trae alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2. Git icon  Git Support
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Real time collaboration
    5.  Syntax Highlighting
    6.  Code Formatting
    7.  Autocompletion
    8.  Full-Text Search
    9.  AI-Powered
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  13. Squircle IDE icon
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    Squircle IDE

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    Squircle IDE currently supports coding in the following programming languages: ActionScript, C, C++, C#, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Json, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, Markdown, PHP, Python, Ruby, Shell, Smali, SQL, Toml, TypeScript, Visual Basic, XML and YAML.

    67 Squircle IDE alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Support for MarkDown
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Code Completion
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    • Squircle IDE is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Pulsar Editor.

    • Squircle IDE is Free and Open SourcePulsar Editor is also Free and Open Source
    • Squircle IDE is LightweightPulsar Editor is not according to our users
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    Icecoder

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    A lightweight yet powerful IDE/code editor that comes in both Web and desktop editions, the latter written with PHP and including choices for several platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).

    68 Icecoder alternatives
    Icecoder screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Icecoder Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Ad-free
    7.  Online
    8.  Self-hosted
    Discontinued

    Seems the software is for sale. "This repository has been archived by the owner on Dec 14, 2023. It is now read-only."

    Icecoder iconPulsar Editor Icon

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    • Icecoder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Pulsar Editor.

    • Icecoder is Free and Open SourcePulsar Editor is also Free and Open Source
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    EmEditor

     76 likes
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    EmEditor is a versatile text, code, and CSV editor designed for Windows. It offers lightweight, user-friendly, and extendable platform, with both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. The software also features AI-assisted writing.

    125 EmEditor alternatives
    EmEditor screenshot 1

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    EmEditor Features

    1.  Import CSV Data
    2. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    3.  Support for Large File
    4.  Support for Unicode
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