TextWrangler Alternatives

TextWrangler is described as 'The powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to TextWrangler for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Flathub and BSD 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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  1. Eddie icon
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    Eddie is a programmers editor for Mac OSX and Gnome Linux. Inspired by the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, Eddie brings some of it's powerful features into a modern lightweight and capable programmer's editor.

    129 Eddie alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. Jottr icon
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    A simple, opinionated plain text editor designed for writers, journalists and researchers. Jottr is not meant to be a full-featured text editor, but rather a simple and easy to use tool for writing. It's not aimed at developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  3. Batch-Notepad that can replace, insert, delete, copy, and move text in multiple files in bulk! Perform advanced search and replace operations using RegEx substitutions. Supports multi-line replace, wildcards, match selection, case matching, Unicode!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. TeraPad icon
     1 like

    TeraPad is very light-weight text editor which supports styling for css html js and other major languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Scribe icon
     1 like

    Vim-flavoured modal editor with the parts a writer actually needs and a few features vim never had. Single static binary, sub-10 ms startup, soft-wrap by default, Claude Code in the editor, syntax highlighting, hunspell spellcheck, Goyo-style reading mode, persistent registers...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
     
  6. Rustroid icon
     1 like

    A Rust IDE for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  7. YuranPad icon
     Like

    Download YuranPad for free. YuranPad is a free text editor, for both platforms : Microsoft Windows 7/8/10/XP/Vista/2003 and Linux (distributions like : Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, Redhat, Fedora, ...) with minimal system requirements.

    27 YuranPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Notepad icon
     1 like

    Notepad is a fast and distraction-free online writing space. Capture thoughts, take notes, and share instantly. Perfect for quick ideas, to-do lists, etc.

    55 Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. The uncompromising Python code formatter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. NoobNote icon
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    There are many alternatives to Microsoft Notepad and the best one out there in my opinion is Notepad++, but there are no alternatives to Notepad which actually look and feel like it. NoobNote aims to replace that.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  11.  Like

    ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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