A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.




Nextpad++ is described as 'Native macOS code editor with syntax highlighting, plugin support, advanced search, split view, macro recording, and full feature parity with the Windows version' and is a Code Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Nextpad++ for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Nextpad++ alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nextpad++ are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.




A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Releases are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

BBEdit 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.

Textadept 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...



Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.


jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...







Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.




A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes.
These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.




Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.




Pragtical is a code editor which was forked from Lite XL (also a fork of lite) written mostly in Lua with a focus on been practical rather than minimalist. The name of the editor is a mixture of the words pragmatic and practical, two words that properly define our development...
