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. EditPad Pro icon
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    EditPad Pro is a powerful and versatile text editor or word processor. Designed to make text editing as convenient as possible, using EditPad Pro to edit text files will save you a lot of time and frustration. There is also a free .

    33 EditPad Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. Text.app icon
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    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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
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  3. Onivim 2 icon
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    Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor - the next iteration of the Onivim project - combining Vim-style modal editing with the aesthetics and language features of modern editors.

    76 Onivim 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. TEA icon
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    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Intype icon
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    Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins. It makes development in any programming or scripting language quick and easy.

    91 Intype alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. VbsEdit icon
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    VbsEdit, the award-winning VBScript editor that dramatically reduces the time you spend writing .VBS scripts

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Code icon
     18 likes

    Code (formerly known as Scratch) is an advanced text editor built for and bundled with elementary OS. A very intuitive interface keeps complex functionality like Vim emulation, Git and terminal integration accessible but out of the way while...

    43 Code alternatives

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    • Linux
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  8. GetDiz icon
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    GetDiz is a fully featured text editor which can replace Notepad while maintaining an incredible speed, ease of use and small size. You can display and edit any text files with GetDiz. Additionally it offers enhanced functionality with DIZ and NFO files, which are often included...

    107 GetDiz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. SlickEdit icon
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    SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

    92 SlickEdit alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. medit icon
     17 likes

    Lightweight open-source text editor featuring syntax highlighting for many languages, tabbed interface, customizable keyboard shortcuts, plugin and macro support, configurable color schemes, find and replace with regex, and cross-platform compatibility for programming or general use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  11. Scribes icon
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    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
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