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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  1. iText icon

    iText

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    iText is an intuitive and refined text editor with word processing completely rewritten in Cocoa (so works with Afloat), and is suitable for both Power PC and Intel Macs. iText provides the simplest way to make gorgeous manuscripts on your Mac!

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    iText screenshot 1

    iText VS TextEdit

     

    • iText is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to TextEdit.

    • iText is Freemium and ProprietaryTextEdit is Free and Proprietary
  2. xPad. icon

    xPad.

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    xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    xPad. screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    xPad is no longer developed or maintained, but it can be still downloaded from its webpage.

    xPad. VS TextEdit

     
  4. Edit Pad icon

    Edit Pad

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    Fast, web-based plain text editor for quickly taking notes online.

    21 Edit Pad alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    Edit Pad screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Paraphrasing

    Edit Pad 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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  6. Poly Edit Lite icon

    Poly Edit Lite

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    PolyEdit Lite is a multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is fast, small, and easy-to-use.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Poly Edit Lite screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    No changes since 23 Jul 2010.http://www.polyedit.com/news.html

    Poly Edit Lite VS TextEdit

     
  7. Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor) icon

    Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor)

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    Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl, and Java.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • KR flagSouth Korea

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor) screenshot 1

    Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor) Features

    1. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
    2.  Column edit mode
    3.  Tex
    4.  C++
    5.  Color coding

    Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor) VS TextEdit

     
  8. Araneae icon

    Araneae

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    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.

    License model

    • Free Personal • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main Editor Window

    Araneae Features

    1.  Live Preview
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Drag and Drop
    4.  Tabbed interface

    Araneae VS TextEdit

     
  10. JMTech 121 HTML Editor icon

    JMTech 121 HTML Editor

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    • NetBeans
    Discontinued

    Last Update: 2015-01-23, like stated on https://sourceforge.net/projects/jmtechhtmledit/

    JMTech 121 HTML Editor Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Support for Javascript
    4.  Support for HTML5

    JMTech 121 HTML Editor VS TextEdit

     
  11. Mystix icon

    Mystix

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Mystix screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.3.1, released in November 2005, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Mystix Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Multiple languages
    3.  Support for regular expressions

    Mystix VS TextEdit

     
  12. MetroTextual icon

    MetroTextual

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Windows
    MetroTextual screenshot 1

    MetroTextual Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    MetroTextual VS TextEdit

     
  13. PHP Studio icon

    PHP Studio

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    PHP Studio is an easy-to-use and comprehensive development solution for PHP based websites and applications. This advanced PHP editor has many features that will streamline complete development process of editing, debugging and deploying of PHP applications for both beginner and...

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PHP Studio screenshot 1

    PHP Studio VS TextEdit

     
  14. skEdit icon

    skEdit

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    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.

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main editor window

    skEdit VS TextEdit

     
  15. Batch RegEx icon

    Batch RegEx

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    Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data extraction, and more! Built-in RegEx editors support color syntax highlighting and tips.

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Batch RegEx screenshot 1

    Batch RegEx Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Text Analytics
    4.  Batch processing
    5.  Text formatting

    Batch RegEx VS TextEdit

     
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