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. Qt Creator icon
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    Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) built for the maximum developer experience. Qt Creator runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop operating systems and allows developers to create software across desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms.

    131 Qt Creator alternatives

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    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
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  2. Aptana Studio icon
     332 likes

    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

    126 Aptana Studio alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. CotEditor icon
     47 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.

    179 CotEditor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. Bluefish Editor icon
     164 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    229 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  5. Trae icon
     16 likes

    Trae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster.

    55 Trae alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. UltraEdit icon
     162 likes

    UltraEdit is a commercially maintained editor built for critical work where performance, reliability, and security matter most.

    230 UltraEdit alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. KDevelop icon
     81 likes

    A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP.

    51 KDevelop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
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  8. SciTE icon
     149 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...

    172 SciTE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  9. PSPad icon
     203 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.

    185 PSPad alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. Zasper icon
     10 likes

    A powerful IDE for data science, Zasper excels with massive concurrency support, enabling numerous simultaneous connections, minimal memory usage, and speedy performance. Suited for REPL-style data apps like Jupyter notebooks, fully supported on Mac with limited Linux support.

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    • Mac
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  11. Squircle CE icon
     13 likes

    Squircle CE is a fast, lightweight code editor and file manager with support for over 30 programming languages, remote file access via SFTP/FTP(S) and Git VCS integration. Whether you're a student, hobbyist, or professional developer, Squircle CE lets you write, manage, and...

    86 Squircle CE alternatives

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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