TextEdit Alternatives

TextEdit is described as 'When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and even add music and movie files' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to TextEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best TextEdit alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. Other great apps like TextEdit are gedit, GNU nano, TextMate and CudaText.

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TextEdit alternatives page was last updated Jan 27, 2024
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  1. BowPad icon

    BowPad

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows
    BowPad screenshot 1

    BowPad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Ribbon Interface

    BowPad VS TextEdit

     
  2. TEA icon

    TEA

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    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    TEA screenshot 1

    TEA Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  C++
    3.  Tabbed interface
    4.  Built-in File Manager
    5.  Built-in Image converter
    6.  Built-in Image viewer
    7.  Built-in archiver

    TEA VS TextEdit

     
  4. HTML-Kit icon

    HTML-Kit

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    HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages. HTML-Kit has received 95% thumbs up on Download.

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    HTML-Kit VS TextEdit

     
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    EmEditor

    EmEditor is a versatile text, code, and CSV editor designed for Windows. It offers lightweight, user-friendly, and extendable platform, with both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. The software also features AI-assisted writing.

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    Thunderpad

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    Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • MX flagMexico

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Thunderpad screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Thunderpad VS TextEdit

     
  7. Notepas icon

    Notepas

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    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Notepas screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Cannot run on macOS Monterey and the last update is from 2016.

    Notepas Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for Unicode
    5.  GPLv3

    Notepas VS TextEdit

     

  8. 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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vis screenshot 1

    Vis Features

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

    Vis VS TextEdit

     
  10. Plain Text icon

    Plain Text

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    Simple text editor, and text utils (powered by AI).

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Web Browser
    • WebApps
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    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Spell Checking
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  No registration required
    4.  No Coding Required
    5.  Text to Speech
    6.  Word counter
    7.  Simple text editor
    8.  AI-Powered
    9.  Text formatting
    10.  URL Forwarding
    11.  Grammar tool
    12.  Progressive Web App

    Plain Text VS TextEdit

     

    • Plain Text is the most popular Web-based alternative to TextEdit.

    • Plain Text is Free and ProprietaryTextEdit is also Free and Proprietary
    • Plain Text is LightweightTextEdit is not according to our users
  11. Plain Text Editor icon

    Plain Text Editor

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    Simple distraction-free text editor without any rich text nonsense. The simplicity is a feature.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • NO flagNorway

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Plain Text Editor screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Distraction-free

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Simple text editor
    3.  Distraction-free Writing

    Plain Text Editor VS TextEdit

     
  12. HippoEDIT icon

    HippoEDIT

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    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...

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    HippoEDIT screenshot 1

    HippoEDIT Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    HippoEDIT VS TextEdit

     
  13. Vy icon

    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.

    167 Vy alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Vy screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

    Vy VS TextEdit

     
  14. BDV Notepad icon

    BDV Notepad

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    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!

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    BDV Notepad screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    No changes since 2009. See http://www.bdvnotepad.com/products/bdv-notepad/

    BDV Notepad VS TextEdit

     
  15. Pe (Programmer’s Editor) icon

    Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

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    Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML autocompletion...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Haiku

    Pe (Programmer’s Editor) Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Search and Replace
    3.  Support for FTP

    Pe (Programmer’s Editor) VS TextEdit

     
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