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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  1. Textastic icon
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    Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.

    67 Textastic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    • Almost everyone thinks Textastic is a great Sublime Text alternative.

    • Textastic is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Sublime Text.

    • Textastic is Paid and ProprietarySublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. EmEditor icon
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    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.

    124 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Textadept icon
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    Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...

    91 Textadept alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Small and customizable text editor.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Textadept is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. TextWrangler icon
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    TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.

    94 TextWrangler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
     
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    TextWrangler is a small and powerful text editor, like Sublime Text.

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

    • TextWrangler is Free and ProprietarySublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Kakoune icon
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    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
     
  6. Nova icon
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    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    126 Nova alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Xed icon
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    A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.

    158 Xed alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  8. Light Table icon
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    Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  9. Icecoder icon
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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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. BBEdit icon
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    BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

    118 BBEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. jEdit icon
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    jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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