FoldingText Alternatives

FoldingText is described as 'Makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to FoldingText for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Web-based apps. The best FoldingText alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FoldingText are Kate, gedit, GNU Emacs and Workflowy.

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  1. PSPad icon
     204 likes

    PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.

    172 PSPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. UltraEdit icon
     161 likes

    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).

    211 UltraEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. SciTE icon
     150 likes

    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  4. WriteMonkey icon
     130 likes

    Writemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words.

    105 WriteMonkey alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. CotEditor icon
     42 likes

    Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

    161 CotEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Leafpad icon
     68 likes

    Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.

    104 Leafpad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • MacPorts
     
  7. EmEditor icon
     77 likes

    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.

    125 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Xed icon
     23 likes

    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.

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    • Linux
     
  9. TextWrangler icon
     153 likes

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

    95 TextWrangler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. BBEdit icon
     48 likes

    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.

    119 BBEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. jEdit icon
     115 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Textastic icon
     16 likes

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

    68 Textastic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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