TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.




FavoText is described as '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' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to FavoText for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best FavoText alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FavoText are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.




ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.


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.




BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...



Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.







A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.


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...







Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.




glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.

