A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron

TextMate is described as 'Brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to TextMate for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best TextMate alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TextMate are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.

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