Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Qt
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Italy
EU

TextWrangler has been discontinued. One of the most popular alternatives is Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim. There's no shortage of Text Editors like TextWrangler, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.

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