TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.


Z-VI is described as 'Smallest Vi-clone text editor for Windows (62KB) that runs in terminal and SSH sessions' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Z-VI for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Z-VI alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Z-VI are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Vim and Kate.
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.


CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.





UltraEdit is 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).




UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Z-VI.
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.




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...



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



Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.


ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor.





Editor is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Z-VI.
Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

Judge0 IDE is the most popular SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Z-VI.