SynWrite Alternatives

SynWrite is described as 'Free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to SynWrite for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best SynWrite alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SynWrite are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Araneae icon
     3 likes

    Lightweight text editor featuring syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, instant browser preview even unsaved, tabbed documents, drag-and-drop for files and images, customizable quick clips, and a streamlined design focused on web coding.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Hekapad icon
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    Hekapad is a free fully featured lightweight text editor for Windows. It can be used to replace the classic Notepad with some cool features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. This HTML editor is a just a simple program, but with powerful features. It's based off of Apache NetBeans and it's UI. With support for CSS, HTML1-5, and XML it is very useful and plans are made to include server-side support and well as a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    • NetBeans
     
  4. Mystix icon
     3 likes

    Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5.  2 likes

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. MetroTextual icon
     3 likes

    MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7.  3 likes

    OpenLDev is a graphical front-end to Linux development tools such as gcc, GNU autotools and make. OpenLDev strives to provide an easy-to-use interface that is both productive for experts and simple for beginners.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. BDV Notepad icon
     3 likes

    It is a comfortable text editor and a Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. skEdit icon
     2 likes

    Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. DtPad icon
     3 likes

    DtPad is a Windows text editor, developed with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and identified by many advanced features, including HTML and XML code management, search in files, search with regular expressions, note mode (light window in foreground), built-in multilanguage support...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Simple CSS icon
     2 likes

    Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.

    42 Simple CSS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12.  2 likes

    Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) library, called ESA, that provides an Emacs-style user interface, rather than the normal CLIM UI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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