Geany Alternatives

Geany is described as 'Powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Geany for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Geany alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Geany are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Tilde icon
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    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

    126 Tilde alternatives

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    • Linux
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  2. Nota is a convergent text editor. Nota is easy to use, with a simple interface by default. Nota supports syntax highlighting for various languages, focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, colors, a integrated side panel and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  3. Jollpi icon
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    Jollpi is a lightweight, simple, and reliable text editor, built with Python 3, GTK4, and GtkSourceView 5. This version is a modern rewrite of the original 2010 Python 2 + PyGTK Jollpi text editor - now refreshed for modern Linux distributions.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. Features of Simple Code Editor include: Theming, Emmet support, a minimalist interface, syntax highlighting, and more.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  5. Scribes icon
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    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

    Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  6. Thunderpad icon
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    Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.

    109 Thunderpad alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Mystix icon
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    Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.

    72 Mystix alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  8. EdytorNC icon
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    EdytorNC is text editor for CNC programmers. Some features : bolt holes calculation; solutions of triangles calculation; speed, feed calculation; conversion inch/mm, mm/inch; code colouring; RS232 data transmission with automatic file saving and possibility to download new CNC...

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Textosaurus icon
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    Simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. znote icon
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    Free text and markdown editor. Developer friendly thanks to integrated Dark mode and syntax highlighting of code. Secure your notes on the fly with our AES encoder. Multi-notes and draft support. Available on all platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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