Scribes Alternatives

Scribes is described as 'A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Scribes for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Scribes alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Scribes are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. BBEdit icon
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    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.

    119 BBEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  2. Textadept icon
     39 likes

    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...

    93 Textadept alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Mousepad icon
     35 likes

    A 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.

    78 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
     
  4. RubyMine icon
     38 likes

    Comprehensive IDE specialized for Ruby and Rails, offering smart code completion, advanced navigation, error analysis, refactoring tools, integrated debugging, test frameworks, and web development support alongside extensive VCS integration and plugin extensibility.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. jEdit icon
     115 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Pluma icon
     18 likes

    Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

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    • Linux
     
  7. 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.

    • Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes
    • Multi-language use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Graviton Editor icon
     17 likes

    Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Espresso icon
     87 likes

    Espresso is a powerful text editor for web developers, from the creators of CSSEdit .

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. WYSIWYG Web Builder generates HTML tags automatically, supports varied designs with over 250 pre-made blocks, and integrates tools for form email, file uploads, and validation. It includes extensions for slideshows, multimedia, ecommerce features, and a one-click publishing tool supporting multiple protocols.

    79 WYSIWYG Web Builder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. EditPlus icon
     30 likes

    EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    64 EditPlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Leo Editor icon
     5 likes

    Leo is an open source text editor/outliner that features clones (virtual copies of outline nodes) as its central tool of organization, navigation, customization and scripting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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