MS Paint IDE Alternatives

MS Paint IDE is described as 'People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs' and is a IDE in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to MS Paint IDE for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best MS Paint IDE alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MS Paint IDE are Kate, Geany, gedit and QOwnNotes.

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  1. This HTML editor is a just a simple program, but with powerful features. It's based off of Apache NetBeans and it's UI. With support for CSS, HTML1-5, and XML it is very useful and plans are made to include server-side support and well as a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    • NetBeans
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  2. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. skEdit icon
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    Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. DtPad icon
     3 likes

    DtPad is a Windows text editor, developed with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and identified by many advanced features, including HTML and XML code management, search in files, search with regular expressions, note mode (light window in foreground), built-in multilanguage support...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Simple CSS icon
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    Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. UEStudio icon
     4 likes

    UEStudio offers all the functionality of UltraEdit plus other exciting and powerful features! Whether you are simply editing text, building applications, maintaining databases, or constructing websites, UEStudio's stunning array of innovative features offers the...

    80 UEStudio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7.  3 likes

    OpenLDev is a graphical front-end to Linux development tools such as gcc, GNU autotools and make. OpenLDev strives to provide an easy-to-use interface that is both productive for experts and simple for beginners.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. MadEdit-Mod icon
     1 like

    Cross platform text/hex editor based on MadEdit with a lot of fixes and new features added, such as Drag-Drop Edit(cross platform), Highlight word, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. 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
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  10. 4coder icon
     1 like

    4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).

    164 4coder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11.  1 like

    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    149 Vis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. SilverEdit icon
     2 likes

    SilverEdit 3 - The ultimate web designer tool for Android devices. On sale! SilverEdit is the ultimate web designer tool for Android devices. With SilverEdit you can Create, Edit, Preview your pages offline or online. Manage, upload and download files through the FTP as well as m.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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