Cream is a free text editor.
A modern configuration of the powerful and famous Vim , Cream is for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Vim
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
144 Howl alternativesHowl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
126 RJ TextEd alternativesRJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
Sweden
EU
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vile is a portable vi clone with extra features and other improvements. It's a text editor that attempts to combine the best aspects of the popular Emacs and vi editors.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
Bim is a Vim-inspired, terminal text editor originally built for ToaruOS but also available for Linux, Sortix, FreeBSD, and macOS. Bim aims to be lightweight and featureful with no external dependencies, providing a modern editing experience...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
United States
176 Lines code editor alternativesLines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- The Portable Freeware Collection
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A native editor for Markdown, notes, and code across macOS, iPhone, and iPad. Minimal by design. Quick edits, fast file access, no IDE bloat.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
Germany- EU
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Everything you need to get started without any configuration. A completely usable editor, right out of the box.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Isle of Man
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Welcome to the home of the Brief text editor famous for its clean look and legendary keystrokes. Below are some good reasons to make Brief your editor:
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
106 metapad alternativesMetapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
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