Adobe Dreamweaver AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors

The best Text Editor alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver is WebStorm. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try WebStorm or KompoZer. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Dreamweaver and 18 are Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text Editor alternatives to Adobe Dreamweaver are Nova, Pingendo, CoffeeCup HTML Editor and TweakStyle.

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  1. WebStorm icon

    WebStorm

     134 likes

    JetBrains WebStorm is a commercial IDE for JavaScript, CSS & HTML built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform.

    55 WebStorm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about WebStorm as an Alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver
    Top Positive Comment
    webzooks
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    WebStorm is the best alternative to Dreamweaver along with PhpStorm for PHP projects. It's IDE helping developer to work faster and easier.

    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    7

    Webstorm has only a code editor and real time preview, but no WYSIWYG editor like Adobe Dreamweaver. While typing you always need to deal with code specific syntax.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Iva Kyb
    Negative
    0

    It is not visual editor, just text.

    3 of 5 comments
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    • Some users think WebStorm is a great Adobe Dreamweaver alternative, some don't.

    • WebStorm is the most popular free alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver.

    • WebStorm is Free Personal and ProprietaryAdobe Dreamweaver is Paid and Proprietary
  2. KompoZer icon

    KompoZer

     132 likes

    KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

    65 KompoZer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
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    Comments about KompoZer as an Alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver
    Guest
    Positive
    4

    Like Dreamweaver, Kompozer is a programm made to help us to create websites.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    -1

    It's a great design tool for people who aren't the best at HTML

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think KompoZer is a great Adobe Dreamweaver alternative.

    • KompoZer is Free and Open SourceAdobe Dreamweaver is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Bluefish Editor icon

    Bluefish Editor

     162 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    212 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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    Comments about Bluefish Editor as an Alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver
    Guest
    Positive
    3

    very fast - simple - open source - works perfectly on Linux

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Iva Kyb
    Negative
    1

    It is not a visual editor for designers.

    sedeti
    Negative
    0

    Nice for just a text editor

    3 of 4 comments
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    • Some users think Bluefish Editor is a great Adobe Dreamweaver alternative, some don't.

    • Bluefish Editor is Free and Open SourceAdobe Dreamweaver is Paid and Proprietary
    • Bluefish Editor is LightweightAdobe Dreamweaver is not according to our users
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    Nova

     7 likes

    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Pingendo

     42 likes

    Create websites quickly and customize them with ease. Based on Bootstrap, HTML5 and SASS, Pingendo lets you create and manage webpages from prototyping to deploy.

    78 Pingendo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    HTML/SASS live editor for hands on code all the time
     
  8. CoffeeCup HTML Editor icon

    CoffeeCup HTML Editor

     12 likes

    The CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is a drag-and-drop HTML Editor with built-in FTP uploading. It has wizards for tables, frames, forms, and fonts, and comes with all HTML 4.0 and XHTML tags.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Rapid CSS Editor

     1 like

    Efficiently create and edit CSS with instant previews, auto-complete, code inspector, error checking, syntax highlighting, multi-document support, side-by-side editing, template access, and compatibility with complex or large-scale workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Quanta Plus

     11 likes

    Quanta Plus is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages. It is part of KDE, a Linux desktop environment, released in the Kdewebdev package.

    40 Quanta Plus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    CSS, document structure and various ways of editing
     
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    Smultron

     71 likes

    Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs - like web programming, script editing, making a to do...

    70 Smultron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Smultron screenshot 1
     
  14. Rapidweaver icon

    Rapidweaver

     25 likes

    A WYSIWYG web editor for mac. Intuitive program allows for the creation of complex websites in a short time with little to no coding experience required. Rapidweaver integrates with several web 2.0 technologies and is a good alternative to iWeb, Muse, and a cheaper alternative...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Welcome to RapidWeaver for Mac
     
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    Scribes

     24 likes

    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

    Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

    The res.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Scribes simple and sleek (startup)
     
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    Comments about Scribes as an Alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver
    Guest
    Negative
    1

    No preview, defective HTML helping macros, code highlighting may behave erratically.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Scribes is Free and Open SourceAdobe Dreamweaver is Paid and Proprietary
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