Textastic Alternatives

Textastic is described as 'Advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Textastic for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Textastic alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Textastic are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.

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

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  1. Runestone icon
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    Runestone

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    A performant, lightweight, and simple plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more.

    54 Runestone alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    Top Runestone Features

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Code Formatting
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  Privacy focused
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Support for MarkDown
    9.  Ad-free
    10.  Distraction-free
    11.  Lightweight
    12.  No registration required
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  2. SynWrite icon
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    SynWrite

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

    168 SynWrite alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander

    SynWrite Features

    1.  Spell Checking
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Portable
    4.  Tree structure
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    Discontinued

    Last update was on 29-08-2017. Synwrite is continued on CudaText.Only there is no Total Commander plug-in with CudaText.

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  4. Jota Text Editor icon
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    Jota Text Editor

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    Jota, pronouced as "i-o-ta", is a text editor designed for a long text file.

    50 Jota Text Editor alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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    Jota Text Editor Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Text to Speech
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Spell Checking
    5.  Word counter
    Discontinued

    Last update was 2018-07-29

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  5. CodeRunner icon
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    CodeRunner

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    A simple programmer's editor with a tightly-integrated console.

    It's excellent for rapidly prototyping code with its super fast edit-run-edit -run-save workflow, and its Cocoa integration gives it a real edge over the command line.

    It has syntax highlighting and code co.

    17 CodeRunner alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Mac

    CodeRunner Features

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Support for regular expressions
    4.  Code Completion
    5.  Rad
    6.  Ruby
    7.  Objective-c
    8.  Applescript
    9.  Repl
    10.  Regex substitution
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    ATPad

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    ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement written in pure C and Windows API. Keeping simplicity of Notepad it provides many additional features. 90kb UPX repacked.

    191 ATPad alternatives
    90kb!

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • The Portable Freeware Collection
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    ATPad Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Portable
    4.  Send to email
    5.  Code Completion
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  7. DroidEdit icon
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    DroidEdit

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    DroidEdit is a text and code editor for android tablets and phones with the following features:

    11 DroidEdit alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android

    DroidEdit Features

    1.  Support for SFTP
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    Discontinued

    App still appears to work but last update is from September 30, 2017.

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    Devpad

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    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

    171 Devpad alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Devpad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
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  10. Coder icon
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    Coder

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    The Cloud IDE, Solved.

    50 Coder alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Coder Features

    1.  Cloud IDE
    2.  Online editor
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    • Coder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Textastic.

    • Coder is Freemium and Open SourceTextastic is Paid and Proprietary

  11. Vis

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    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...

    155 Vis alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Vis Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Modal editor
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    Koder Code Editor

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    Koder is a code editor for iPad and iPhone. It does have many features including syntax highlighting, snippet manager, tabbed editing, find and replace code, editor theme, remote and local files connections, and many more.

    19 Koder Code Editor alternatives
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    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Koder Code Editor Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Code Completion
    3.  Tabbed interface
    4.  Snippets Manager
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    Vy

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    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.

    171 Vy alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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    Howl

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    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.

    153 Howl alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Howl Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Minimalistic
    4.  Customizable
    5.  Keyboard focused
    6.  Programmable
    7.  Keyboard Shortcuts
    Discontinued

    The last version (0.6) is from April 2019.

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