1589 Like Sublime Text Good alternative? YES NO Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. ... Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Lightweight Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Package Control Multiple cursors Autocompletion Automatic packaging ... Code completion Customizable Optimize for fast boot Memory footprint Minimap Distraction-free UI Scriptwriting Assistant Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
985 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Keyboard focused Modal editor Spell checking ... Terminal-based Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature
601 Like gedit Good alternative? YES NO Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD GNOME OpenSolaris Autocompletion Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
200 Like Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
323 Like Aptana Studio Alternative? YES NO Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for FTP Real time collaboration Add a feature Discontinued Aptana is still in development on GitHub but latest version, 3.6.1, was released in October 2014. It lacks Java 8/9 features, as well as newer Javascript and HTML 5 features.
276 Like Notepad2 Good alternative? YES NO Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
189 Like PSPad Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Windows Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
149 Like Notepad Good alternative? YES NO Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows. Free Windows Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows Add a feature
138 Like UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
130 Like SciTE Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce No features added Add a feature
77 Like AkelPad Good alternative? YES NO A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages. Features * Single window (SDI)... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com No features added Add a feature
105 Like jEdit Good alternative? YES NO jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
34 Like Notepad2-mod Good alternative? YES NO A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature
43 Like WordPad Good alternative? YES NO WordPad is a simple word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. It is the successor of Windows 3.1s Write.... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
34 Like ReText Good alternative? YES NO ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview. It is written in Python using Qt... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
