Text Edit Plus Alternatives

Text Edit Plus is described as 'Lightweight tool that enables users to easily create new text documents or to modify existing ones. The application is designed as an alternative to Notepad, by offering a wider set of features. Some of the features: Adding date and time' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Text Edit Plus for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Text Edit Plus alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Text Edit Plus are Sublime Text, Vim, Kate and gedit.

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  1. Bluefish Editor icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
  2. PSPad icon
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    PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.

    170 PSPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. UltraEdit icon
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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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Text Edit Plus.

    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryText Edit Plus is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. SciTE icon
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    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    155 SciTE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  5. CotEditor icon
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    Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

    160 CotEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
  6. Leafpad icon
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    Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.

    103 Leafpad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • MacPorts
     
  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.

    157 Xed alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  8. ReText icon
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    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    77 ReText alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. EmEditor icon
     77 likes
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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.

    125 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  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

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    • Mac
     
  11. Mousepad icon
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    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.

    78 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
     
  12. wxMEdit icon
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    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    85 wxMEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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