Spacemacs Alternatives

Apps similar to Spacemacs include Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other options are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Zed Editor. You're spoiled for choice with Text Editors like Spacemacs: we list more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Linux, Windows, Android and the web.

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Spacemacs alternatives page was last updated Oct 1, 2026

Diakonos
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Diakonos is a powerful and easy to use console-based text editor.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Good alternative?Is Diakonos a good alternative to Spacemacs?
Evil
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Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It emulates the main features of Vim, and provides facilities for writing custom extensions.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
GNU Emacs
Good alternative?Is Evil a good alternative to Spacemacs?
4coder
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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.).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
United States
Good alternative?Is 4coder a good alternative to Spacemacs?
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Emacs Prelude
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Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 24 configuration that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
E
Good alternative?Is Emacs Prelude a good alternative to Spacemacs?
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V
Vis
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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...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
V
Good alternative?Is Vis a good alternative to Spacemacs?
Ki Editor
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Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application type
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Rust
Good alternative?Is Ki Editor a good alternative to Spacemacs?
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V
Viper Mode
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Viper-mode or just Viper is an Emacs mode that emulates vi key bindings. Besides being the newest variety of vi emulation, it also provides users different levels of emulation to help vi addicts kick the habit.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
International
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
GNU Emacs
V
Good alternative?Is Viper Mode a good alternative to Spacemacs?
NEO Emacs
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GPU powered Emacs written in Rust with a modern display engine. Aiming for modern design & multi-threaded Elisp, 10x performance, zero-pause concurrent GC and 100% Emacs compatibility.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Code Editor
Origin
China
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
China
Good alternative?Is NEO Emacs a good alternative to Spacemacs?
Jove
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Jove is a compact, powerful, Emacs-style text-editor. It provides the common emacs keyboard bindings, together with a reasonable assortment of the most popular advanced features (e.g., interactive shell windows, compile-it, language specific modes) while weighing in with CPU...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Windows
Linux
MS-DOS
Good alternative?Is Jove a good alternative to Spacemacs?
Bim text editor
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Bim is a Vim-inspired, terminal text editor originally built for ToaruOS but also available for Linux, Sortix, FreeBSD, and macOS. Bim aims to be lightweight and featureful with no external dependencies, providing a modern editing experience...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Linux
BSD
United States
Good alternative?Is Bim text editor a good alternative to Spacemacs?