TextMate Alternatives

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 Mac, Windows, 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, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim.

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TextMate alternatives page was last updated Sep 10, 2024
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  1. Lines code editor icon

    Lines code editor

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    Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Responsive preview, code outline, project explorer, tabs. (new version 5.2)

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Built-in Color Picker
    5.  Javascript scripting
    6.  External commands
    7.  Integrated Search
    8.  Integrated Web Browser

    Lines code editor VS TextMate

     
  2. FavoText icon

    FavoText

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    FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    FavoText screenshot 1

    FavoText Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Support for SFTP
    3.  C++
    4.  Hex Editor

    FavoText VS TextMate

     
  4. Skylark edit icon

    Skylark edit

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    Skylark Edit is written in C, a high performance text/hex editor. Embedded Database-client/Redis-client/Lua-engine. You can run Lua scripts and SQL files directly.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Skylark edit Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Skylark edit VS TextMate

     
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  6. MadEdit icon

    MadEdit

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    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    Main window
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    MadEdit Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Hex Editor

    MadEdit VS TextMate

     
  7. 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 TextMate

     
  8. Ki Editor icon

    Ki Editor

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    Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
    Ki Editor screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight
    3.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Full-Text Search
    4.  No Tracking
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Syntax Highlighting
    8.  Automatic Indentation
    9.  Modal editor
    10.  Built-in File Manager
    11.  Multiple Cursors

    Ki Editor VS TextMate

     
  10. Traditional Ex - Vi editor icon

    Traditional Ex - Vi editor

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    The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Vi session editing, tildes signify lines not present in the file.
    Discontinued

    The last update is from 2013.

    Traditional Ex - Vi editor VS TextMate

     
  11. Colon IDE icon

    Colon IDE

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    A flexible and hybrid text editor | IDE.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Colon IDE screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last commit and release on Jun 2019.

    Colon IDE VS TextMate

     
  12. Paper - Writing App icon

    Paper - Writing App

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    Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    Paper - Writing App screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Minimalistic
    3.  Customizable

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  WYSIWYG Support
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Support for MarkDown
    6.  Fullscreen support
    7.  Distraction-free Writing

    Paper - Writing App VS TextMate

     
  13. Text icon

    Text

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    Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.

    94 Text alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    Text screenshot 1

    Text Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3. Google Drive icon  Google Drive integration
    4. Dropbox icon  Sync with Dropbox

    Text VS TextMate

     
  14. 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.

    166 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 TextMate

     
  15. TextEdit icon

    TextEdit

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    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.

    99 TextEdit alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    TextEdit main interface (Updated) (Noticed I used the same text thing as the other one?)

    TextEdit Features

    1.  Graphical User Interface
    2.  Plain text file
    3.  Rich text editing

    TextEdit VS TextMate

     
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