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. Hacker Pad icon
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    Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Textplorer icon
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    Textplorer supports data field coloring in structured files, ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, MAC or user defined character sets, CRLF detection, bookmarks, fast load of large files,...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. AceHTML icon
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    A powerful, free HTML editor, AceHTML comes packed with outstanding features. Although this Web page software is completely free, it offers a solid collection of tools to help novices and professional webmasters build Web sites with speed, ease, and convenience.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Unreal X-Editor is the best tool for programming using Unreal Script language.

    Enterly developped for Unreal Script and Unreal Developpment Kit, all is here to help the programmer and the game designers !

    Auto-complete, class view, find functions in all files, and "Wizards.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. IT-Edit icon
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    IT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing interface and terminals in the same window as the editor.

    121 IT-Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6.  2 likes

    Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) library, called ESA, that provides an Emacs-style user interface, rather than the normal CLIM UI.

    87 Climacs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. Convert multiple files between more than 100 text encodings and binary formats: Unicode, ANSI, Latin, Cyrillic, ASCII, UTF8, ISO, OEM, Mac, Base-64, Bin-Hex, Quoted-Printable. Features automatic encoding detection, Big Endian support, and more!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Erbele icon
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    Erbele is a feature-rich text editor for macOS Sierra. Forked in 2016 from the Fraise github repository which was discontinued years ago. The author's main interest is to keep the popular app alive.

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    • Mac
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  9. HTMEditor icon
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    The HTMEditor is an online, free and easy to use HTML editor, with WYSIWYG and bootstrap support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. TotalEdit icon
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    TotalEdit is a powerful notepad replacement and text editor. Packed full of features to help everyone from office workers, journalists through to programmers and web site editors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. FavoText icon
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    FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. HAPedit icon
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    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
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