Slate Text Editor Alternatives

Apps similar to Slate Text Editor include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim. There's no shortage of Text Editors like Slate Text Editor, with more than 50 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and Chrome OS.

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  1. CudaText icon
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    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

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    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  2. Bluefish Editor icon
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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.

    231 Bluefish Editor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  3. Koi Editor icon
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    Koi is a fast, native code editor for macOS built around low-latency editing, local workflows, and privacy.

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  4. Lapce icon
     27 likes

    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    206 Lapce alternatives

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  5. UltraEdit icon
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    UltraEdit is a commercially maintained editor built for critical work where performance, reliability, and security matter most.

    232 UltraEdit alternatives

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  6.  5 likes

    Grayslate is a free, open-source desktop scratchpad for developers. It recognizes pasted code and data, suggests useful transformations, automatically chooses filenames and extensions, and saves new slates locally as you type.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  7. Zasper icon
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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.

    98 Zasper alternatives

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  8. PSPad icon
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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.

    187 PSPad alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. Incise icon
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    Fast, native macOS editor with Notepad++-style tabs, Scintilla syntax highlighting, project regex search, code folding, multiple cursors, file diff, git-aware tree, integrated terminal, Claude Code /ide integration, editable CSV/JSON tables with inferrable type color, and session restore.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. SciTE icon
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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...

    175 SciTE alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  11. #Pad icon
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    Desktop notepad for Windows and macOS with #tag-based note organization, built-in TODOs, reminders, regex search, professional editor, clipboard and operation history, plugin support, file versioning, large file handling, and a free 14-day trial.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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