Atom Alternatives for Chrome OS

There are many alternatives to Atom for Chrome OS and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Chrome OS alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Atom and eight of them are available for Chrome OS so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Chrome OS alternatives to Atom are Pulsar Editor, gedit, codebox.io and Caret-T.

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Atom alternatives are mainly Text Editors, but if you're looking for Code Editors or IDEs you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Chrome OS, iPad, Linux, Android, Open Source, Mac + Open Source and Mac. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Atom.

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Visual Studio Code
1479 likes
Free and extensible code editor with built-in Git support, smart IntelliSense, integrated debugger, 30,000+ extensions, works offline, supports markdown and syntax highlighting for numerous languages.
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Snapcraft
United States
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Top Positive Comment by David · Nov 20, 2019
VS Code has arguably better defaults than Atom especially with the pre-configured minimap. Atom's themes use HTML/CSS so visuals are fully configurable but that also makes it a bit slower with drawing operations whereas VS Code draws everything fast, very noticeable with the minimap which reacts practically instantly to changes. VS Code also loads faster and just feels faster in general. Otherwise, both editors offer a massive list of great features and droves of extensions.
Positive comment by Dwayne Mitchell · Dec 17, 2022
The best of the best, at least right now.
Positive comment by someone last · Jan 21, 2018
Makes everything easier, faster.
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Visual Studio Code is Free and ProprietaryAtom is Free Personal and Open Source
Pulsar Editor
51 likes
A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.
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Open Source
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United States
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BSD
Electron
United States
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Positive comment by Mark · Dec 14, 2022
Pulsar is the spiritual successor to Atom.
Positive comment by Buster_Blue · Nov 17, 2023
It's the community-run direct successor (it's a fork) of Atom. If you really liked Atom and wish you could keep using it, this is the obvious choice, because it IS Atom, just with a new name and new maintainers.
Positive comment by tuva-hayabi · Dec 24, 2024
Atom is dead and gone, Pulse is alive and well.
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Pulsar Editor is Free and Open SourceAtom is Free Personal and Open Source
Pulsar Editor is Lightweight and Privacy focusedAtom is not according to our users
gedit
701 likes
Extensible text editor with UTF-8 support, syntax highlighting for several programming and markup languages, remote editing, file reverting, print preview, clipboard operations, powerful search, customizable fonts and colors, line numbering, and plugin support.
211 gedit alternatives
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Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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United States
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BSD
Flathub
GNOME
OpenSolaris
United States
+2
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codebox.io
8 likes
Powerful, Collaborative Online/Offline web IDE

The IDE component is also available as an open source project on GitHub: https://github.com/FriendCode/codebox.
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United States
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Google Chrome
United States
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Caret-T
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Fork of Caret Editor that has full Tern integration (Intellisense for Javascript)
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Open Source
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Chrome OS
Google Chrome
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Caret
32 likes
Caret is a lightweight-but-powerful programmer's editor running as a Chrome Packaged App. Inspired by Sublime and built on top of the Ace editing component, it offers:
108 Caret alternatives
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Open Source
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Text Editor
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United States
Alerts
Discontinued
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Chrome OS
Google Chrome
United States
+1
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Discontinued
Github repository has been archived by the owner on Mar 17, 2022
Caret vs Atom Comments
Positive comment by mattheworiger · Mar 30, 2016
Easy to use. Lots of useful features. Light and fast
1 of 1 comments
Caret is Free and Open SourceAtom is Free Personal and Open Source
Caret is a Text Editor Atom is a Code Editor
Text.app
11 likes
Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.
93 Text.app alternatives
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Free
Open Source
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Text Editor
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Windows
Online
Chrome OS
Google Chrome
United States
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Keypress Editor
8 likes
A new code editor for Chrome and ChromeOS.
131 Keypress Editor alternatives
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Google Chrome
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