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. Judge0 IDE icon

    Judge0 IDE

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    Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

    167 Judge0 IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Z

    Z-VI

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    Smallest Vi-clone text editor for Windows (62KB) that runs in terminal and SSH sessions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Text Editor Pro icon

    Text Editor Pro

     10 likes

    Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories and search results.

    71 Text Editor Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Caret-T icon

    Caret-T

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    Fork of Caret Editor that has full Tern integration (Intellisense for Javascript)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
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  7. HTML-Kit icon

    HTML-Kit

     21 likes

    HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages. HTML-Kit has received 95% thumbs up on Download.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Notepad 4 icon

    Notepad 4

     4 likes

    A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. TwistPad icon

    TwistPad

     8 likes

    Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.

    87 TwistPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Twistpad editing a PHP\HTML file, with split editing, with the clipboard and the file browser window visible. Notice that the search for 'updated' is highlighted automatically
     
  11. HippoEDIT icon

    HippoEDIT

     10 likes

    HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use Windows text editor, primarily targeted at power users and programmers. It has modern and lightweight user interface, which supports different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File Explorer and...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. Vampirio Code icon

    Vampirio Code

     1 like

    Vampirio Code is a versatile open source editor and IDE with syntax highlighting and multi-language compilation, integrated with various compilers and tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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