Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Cygwin
France
EU
GNU nano Alternatives
GNU nano is described as 'Small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GNU nano for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best GNU nano alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU nano are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Zed Editor.
Alternatives list
- 95 Kakoune alternatives
Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
99 Textadept alternativesTextadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
United States
126 TextPad alternativesTextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
United Kingdom
153 BabelPad alternativesBabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- United Kingdom
131 BBEdit alternativesBBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
80 Mousepad alternativesA simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Xfce
Germany- EU
Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
Netherlands- EU
Open source note application with desktop, web, and mobile web access features intuitive file organization, folder grouping, color-coded tags, side panel search, auto updates, word and character counts, reading time estimates, and customizable themes.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
Vietnam
89 TwistPad alternativesTwistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Germany
- EU
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- Flatpak
87 MacVim alternativesMacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Germany
- EU
