jEdit Alternatives

jEdit is described as 'Mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to jEdit for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best jEdit alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like jEdit are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Alternatives
Get a badge for your sitejEdit alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Features of Simple Code Editor include: Theming, Emmet support, a minimalist interface, syntax highlighting, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  2. Caxton icon
     1 like

    A native macOS text editor built for very large files. Opens, searches, and edits multi-gigabyte logs and CSVs in seconds by indexing files instead of loading them into memory.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
    Log search shot: 10 GB log · 80,610,954 lines · 1,613,344 matches in 1.3 s
    Good alternative?
     
  3. PlainForge icon
     1 like

    PlainForge opens, edits, and saves local files with a focus on privacy, control, and productivity. No ads, no tracking, no login, and no internet permission.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    Good alternative?
     
  4. ATPad icon
     3 likes

    ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement written in pure C and Windows API. Keeping simplicity of Notepad it provides many additional features. 90kb UPX repacked.

    182 ATPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • The Portable Freeware Collection
    Good alternative?
     
  5. MetroTextual icon
     3 likes

    MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics.

    111 MetroTextual alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  6. Text.app icon
     11 likes

    Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    Good alternative?
     
  7. HAPedit icon
     1 like

    HAPedit is an acronym for Html Asp Php editor; a win32 text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  8. Scribe icon
     1 like

    Vim-flavoured modal editor with the parts a writer actually needs and a few features vim never had. Single static binary, sub-10 ms startup, soft-wrap by default, Claude Code in the editor, syntax highlighting, hunspell spellcheck, Goyo-style reading mode, persistent registers...

    51 Scribe alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
    Good alternative?
     
  9. Scribes icon
     24 likes

    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.

    The res.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  10. NEdit icon
     8 likes

    NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day.

    35 NEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • US flagUnited States
    The tabbed window interface
    Good alternative?
     
  11. Jollpi icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Good alternative?
     
  12. The uncompromising Python code formatter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
You are at page 10 of jEdit alternatives