Sublime Text Alternatives

Sublime Text is described as 'Sophisticated text editor for code with sleek interface, multi-select tabs, side-by-side definitions, and swift variable renaming using multiple selections' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Sublime Text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Sublime Text alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Sublime Text are Notepad++, Vim, VSCodium and Geany.

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  2. Lite XL icon

    Lite XL

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    Lite XL is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

    58 Lite XL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. TextMate icon

    TextMate

     269 likes
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    TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

    161 TextMate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Comments about TextMate as an Alternative to Sublime Text
    Paul
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    Really good code editor for macOS. It's simple and lightweight, and you can extend it with theme and extensions.

    Guest
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    Fast, lightweight, feels native on OS X and has easy to change themes. Fonts are good and it doesn't have fancy features which means you can't accidentally activate fancy features.

    Basic text editor that's good for everything and is the only thing anyone needs. It's TextEdit but with nice colors and syntax highlighting!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think TextMate is a great Sublime Text alternative.

    • TextMate is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
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    CudaText

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    Multi-selections, Replace dialog at bottom
     
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    David
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    CudaText is one of the few alternatives that's close to Sublime Text in speed while also covering the same breadth of core features like built-in minimap, command-palette and extensibility. The key difference is probably just that CudaText doesn't look as refined.

    Guest
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    It is fast, like Sublime, low on resources

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks CudaText is a great Sublime Text alternative.

    • CudaText is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
    • CudaText is Privacy focusedSublime Text is not according to our users
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    WebStorm

     134 likes
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    JetBrains WebStorm is a commercial IDE for JavaScript, CSS & HTML built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform.

    54 WebStorm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Guest
    Positive
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    WebStorm is an IDE for JavaScript with the best Intellisense, refactoring support, plug-and-play, no need to install dozens of third party plugins to get it functional.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    dynomite567
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    This is an IDE. Sublime is a text editor, not an IDE.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think WebStorm is a great Sublime Text alternative, some don't.

    • WebStorm is Free Personal and ProprietarySublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. Notepad3 icon

    Notepad3

     63 likes
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    Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more.

    210 Notepad3 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    Supports RTL languages out of the box.
     
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    Notepads

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    Considering that most text editors are eather too heavy or look too old, the author came up with Notepads, designed to be a modern-looking UWP app.

    24 Notepads alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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    Lapce

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    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    188 Lapce alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Aptana Studio

     333 likes
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    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

    122 Aptana Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  14. Bluefish Editor icon

    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.

    211 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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    UltraEdit

     161 likes
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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

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    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.
     

    • UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Sublime Text.

    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietarySublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
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