A native editor for Markdown, notes, and code across macOS, iPhone, and iPad. Minimal by design. Quick edits, fast file access, no IDE bloat.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
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Vim Alternatives
Vim is described as 'Advanced text editor with multiple modes, syntax highlighting, word completion, plugin support, built-in help, command-line tools, cross-platform and open source' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Vim for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Vim alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vim are Visual Studio Code, Neovim, Sublime Text and VSCodium.
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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.
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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
- Free
- Open Source (Unlicense)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Rust
Tincta is an elegant one-window text editor that is intuitive to use on personal tasks like writing blog posts, letters or grocery lists. But it also has all functionality you need for professional web design and programming.
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Embitz is a free C/C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users working in the field of embedded software development Finally, an IDE with all the features you need and operation across different targets (ARM, MSP430, PIC, ...).
Jollpi is a lightweight, simple, and reliable text editor, built with Python 3, GTK4, and GtkSourceView 5. This version is a modern rewrite of the original 2010 Python 2 + PyGTK Jollpi text editor - now refreshed for modern Linux distributions.
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.
NotepadX is a simple text editor. With NotepadX you're be able to create standard text files, open text files and edit them. The finished file can be sent directly from the app via E-Mail, stored locally or uploaded online to OneDrive.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
TotalEdit is a powerful notepad replacement and text editor. Packed full of features to help everyone from office workers, journalists through to programmers and web site editors.
NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day.
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