Atom Alternatives

Atom is described as 'Open-source, Electron based text editor with a massive ecosystem of plugins and themes that are easily accessible through a built-in package manager. Being built with Electron, it uses web technology (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Node' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Atom for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Atom alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Atom are Sublime Text, Notepad++, Vim and VSCodium.

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  2. V

    VOoM

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    Vim Outliner of Markups Turns Vim into a two-pane outliner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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  4. Caret Markdown Editor icon

    Caret Markdown Editor

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    Caret is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It stands out with its clean interface, productivity features and obsessive attention to detail.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    Adobe Dreamweaver

    Advanced web authoring tool supports designing and coding tasks from a visual perspective and backs it up with robust coding. Offers live preview, customizable templates, endless design options, and tools like drag-and-drop visua...

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    Pyzo

     13 likes

    Pyzo is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency. It consists of two main components, the editor and the shell, and uses a set of...

    32 Pyzo alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Haroopad

     68 likes

    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

    113 Haroopad alternatives

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  9. PyScripter icon

    PyScripter

     22 likes

    PyScripter is a free and open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial Windows-based IDEs available for other languages.

    44 PyScripter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  10. Zeus IDE icon

    Zeus IDE

     4 likes

    A powerful, feature packed, fully configurable IDE specifically designed for Windows developers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. MacVim icon

    MacVim

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    MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

    87 MacVim alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Pluma

     17 likes

    Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

    161 Pluma alternatives

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  13. Leo Editor icon

    Leo Editor

     5 likes

    Leo is an open source text editor/outliner that features clones (virtual copies of outline nodes) as its central tool of organization, navigation, customization and scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Justmd

     2 likes

    A lightweight markdown viewer and editor. Multi-platform.

    20 Justmd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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