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. Pluma icon
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    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...

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  2. Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes.

    These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

    • Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes
    • Multi-language use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  3. Nova icon
     7 likes

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

    127 Nova alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  4. Legend icon
     54 likes

    Legend (formerly Moo.do) is a notepad, a to-do list, and an outliner, but with advanced features that make the cloud-based application much more useful than any of those tools would be on their own.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Espresso icon
     87 likes

    Espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of CSSEdit .

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  6. metapad icon
     43 likes

    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  7. HTMLPad icon
     9 likes

    HTML, CSS, JavaScript editor featuring AI-assisted code improvements, HTML validator, spell check, FTP access, snippet library, and multi-browser previews for effective web development.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  8. TaskPaper icon
     47 likes

    Make lists and get organized. TaskPaper is a plain text to-do list that’s surprisingly adept.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  9. EditPlus icon
     30 likes

    EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    64 EditPlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  10. QuickNote icon
     7 likes

    Virtual scrapbook for Desktop with a plain text editor. With Quicknote, in its resizable window you can jot down your notes and organize them in categories. Beneath the normal text functions, it can let you directly access frequently run programs, manage windows tasks, and even...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  11. TextEdit icon
     31 likes

    When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and even add music and movie files.

    99 TextEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. EditPad Lite icon
     43 likes

    EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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