Sublime Text Alternatives

Apps similar to Sublime Text include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Vim and Zed. There's no shortage of Text Editors like Sublime Text, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.

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  1. Aquamacs Emacs icon
     18 likes

    An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...

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    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Fresh editor icon
     4 likes

    High-performance terminal text editor developed in Rust, offering fast startup, low latency, extensibility, customizable keybindings, menu-driven native UI, robust mouse support, powerful command palette, cross-platform support, and syntax highlighting.

    53 Fresh editor alternatives

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    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  3. SynWrite icon
     31 likes

    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander
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  4. Howl icon
     6 likes

    Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2018

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. GNOME Text Editor is a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.

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    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. Lite icon
     4 likes

    lite 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. PyDev icon
     14 likes

    PyDev is a third-party plug-in for Eclipse. It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python supporting code refactoring, graphical debugging, code analysis and many other features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2013

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
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  8. Mousepad icon
     35 likes

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    81 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2013

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
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  9. Caret-T icon
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    Fork of Caret Editor that has full Tern integration (Intellisense for Javascript)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
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  10. A native editor for Markdown, notes, and code across macOS, iPhone, and iPad. Minimal by design. Quick edits, fast file access, no IDE bloat.

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    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  11. HippoEDIT icon
     10 likes

    HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use Windows text editor, primarily targeted at power users and programmers. It has modern and lightweight user interface, which supports different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File Explorer and...

    112 HippoEDIT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. NINJA-IDE icon
     34 likes

    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for...

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    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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