TextWrangler Alternatives

TextWrangler is described as 'The powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to TextWrangler for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best TextWrangler alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TextWrangler are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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TextWrangler alternatives are mainly Code Editors but may also be Text Editors or IDEs. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of TextWrangler.

TextWrangler

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Text Editor
Free • Proprietary

TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.

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TextWrangler alternatives page was last updated Sep 7, 2023

Plain Text Editor
Simple distraction-free text editor without any rich text nonsense. The simplicity is a feature.
53 Plain Text Editor alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Plain Text Editor Features
1. Lightweight
2. Dark Mode
3. Distraction-free
4. Simple text editor
5. Distraction-free Writing
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Vis
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...
155 Vis alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Vis Features
Console-based
Support for regular expressions
Modal editor
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Kod
Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

Goals and features

Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

Integrated scripting environment based on N...
52 Kod alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Discontinued
Last update was in 2011. https://github.com/rsms/kod

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TEA
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.
65 TEA alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- IDE
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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
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SuperbEdit
Extensible and light programmers' text editor.

SuperbEdit features Syntax Highlighting, Folder Management, Source Control Integration and much more...

Extensible SuperbEdit has been developed from the start to be extensible via Plugins (called Packages)

It's easy to cr.
55 SuperbEdit alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
SuperbEdit Features
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Syntax Highlighting
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Editor
Simple Android text editor.
75 Editor alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
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Chocolat
Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.
65 Chocolat alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Chocolat Features
Coding
Multiple Cursors
Split windows
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Vy
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.
171 Vy alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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Codeit
Codeit is a mobile code editor connected to Git. Runs on the web, open source and free. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Bootstrap, XML and more. Easy to use without how to.
20 Codeit alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Codeit Features
Portable
Syntax Highlighting
Lightweight
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Howl
Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.
153 Howl alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Howl Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
2. Lightweight
3. Minimalistic
4. Customizable
5. Keyboard focused
6. Programmable
7. Keyboard Shortcuts
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Discontinued
The last version (0.6) is from April 2019.

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Bytes Editor
Bytes is a fast, lightweight and customisable text editor and terminal emulator.
52 Bytes Editor alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
- Code Editor
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Windows
Top Bytes Editor Features
1. Support for scripting
2. Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
3. Syntax Highlighting
4. No registration required
5. Portable
6. Lightweight
7. Support for Themes
8. Autocompletion
9. Works Offline
10. No Tracking
11. Dark Mode
12. Ad-free
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MS Paint IDE
People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs.
179 MS Paint IDE alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- IDE
Platforms
- Windows
- Microsoft Paint
MS Paint IDE Features
OCR
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