Pulsar Editor Alternatives

Pulsar Editor is described as 'A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Pulsar Editor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Flathub and BSD apps. The best Pulsar Editor alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pulsar Editor are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Windsurf Editor icon
     34 likes

    Windsurf Editor is an IDE merging AI and developers for lockstep collaboration with Cascade capabilities, boosting speed and contextual coding through copilot and agent-like systems across Mac, Windows, and Linux.

    65 Windsurf Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Edit icon
     19 likes

    Open-source command-line text editor for Windows with a modern interface inspired by MS-DOS Editor, featuring key bindings, lightweight build under 250KB, multi-file handling with ctrl + P, keyboard-optimized navigation, and direct file editing for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. ghostwriter icon
     109 likes

    ghostwriter is a feature-rich text editor using Markdown syntax which makes it suitable for note-taking, document redaction, simple HTML website creation and much more.

    139 ghostwriter alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
  4. Lite XL icon
     52 likes

    Lite XL is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Notepad3 icon
     63 likes

    Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more.

    211 Notepad3 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. WebStorm icon
     134 likes

    JetBrains WebStorm is a commercial IDE for JavaScript, CSS & HTML built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform.

    55 WebStorm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. TextMate icon
     270 likes

    TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

    163 TextMate alternatives

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Notepads icon
     46 likes

    Considering that most text editors are eather too heavy or look too old, the author came up with Notepads, designed to be a modern-looking UWP app.

    25 Notepads alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Qt Creator icon
     112 likes

    Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) built for the maximum developer experience. Qt Creator runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop operating systems and allows developers to create software across desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms.

    129 Qt Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. Bluefish Editor icon
     162 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    213 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
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