


UltraEdit is described as 'The ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later)' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to UltraEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best UltraEdit alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like UltraEdit are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.



A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.




Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.


jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...



010 Editor is a professional text/hex editor designed to edit any file, drive, or process on your machine. Using Binary Templates technology, 010 Editor allows a binary file to be parsed into a data structure that can be understood.




A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Releases are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Lightweight multi-platform code editor with hardware-accelerated GUI, customizable minimalist interface, syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, terminal and LSP support, plugin extensibility, unlimited editor splits, persistent project state, and portable, ad-free use.




SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.



A lightweight yet powerful IDE/code editor that comes in both Web and desktop editions, the latter written with PHP and including choices for several platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).


Icecoder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to UltraEdit.
Introducing Fastedit, designed to make editing and organizing your documents effortless. With the ability to open multiple tabs, you can easily edit or view multiple documents at once. The app also features line numbering and custom designs to personalize your experience.




Embarcadero Dev-C++ is a new and improved fork (sponsored by Embarcadero) of Bloodshed Dev-C++ and Orwell Dev-C++. It is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and code editor for the C/C++ programming language.


