Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux


Textadept is described as '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 ideal editor for programmers who want endless' and is a Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Textadept for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Textadept alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Textadept are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.


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...

Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms.


Enki is a text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as quickly as possible. Without mouse. -Lighweight. Some IDEs show splashscreen. enki will never do it. It just sta.




medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.
Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.


Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

Judge0 IDE is the most popular SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Textadept.
Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.


BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.



Fresh is a high-performance text editor for the terminal, made in Rust. It's built for speed, responsiveness and extensibility, incorporating features and concepts from the very rich history of successful editors.



vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

Code Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.



