Howl Alternatives
Howl is described as 'General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Howl for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Howl alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Howl are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
Alternatives list
105 BowPad alternativesBowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Switzerland
126 Tilde alternativesTilde 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
Netherlands
EU
142 NoteTab alternativesNoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Windows Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Switzerland
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 typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
+7
109 Notepas alternativesNotepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+6
EverEdit is a fast, lightweight, extendable text, source and binary editor for Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003+). While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
+8
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
Japan
+1
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
France- EU
164 Devpad alternativesNotepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
111 Syncplify.me Notepad! alternativesNotepad! is the free, powerful, feature-rich replacement for your Windows Notepad. This software is completely free to use, for both personal and business purposes. With multi-document editing, split editing (two views of the same document, side by side, with synchronized...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
United States
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
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