Sublime Text Alternatives

Sublime Text is described as 'Sophisticated text editor for code with sleek interface, multi-select tabs, side-by-side definitions, and swift variable renaming using multiple selections' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Sublime Text for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Sublime Text alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Sublime Text are Notepad++, Vim, VSCodium and Geany.

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  1. Edit icon
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    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)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Lite XL icon
     54 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.

    62 Lite XL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    TextMate vs Sublime Text Comments
    Paul
    Positive
    0

    Really good code editor for macOS. It's simple and lightweight, and you can extend it with theme and extensions.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Fast, lightweight, feels native on OS X and has easy to change themes. Fonts are good and it doesn't have fancy features which means you can't accidentally activate fancy features.

    Basic text editor that's good for everything and is the only thing anyone needs. It's TextEdit but with nice colors and syntax highlighting!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • TextMate is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. CudaText icon
     55 likes

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

    196 CudaText alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
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    CudaText vs Sublime Text Comments
    David
    Positive
    2

    CudaText is one of the few alternatives that's close to Sublime Text in speed while also covering the same breadth of core features like built-in minimap, command-palette and extensibility. The key difference is probably just that CudaText doesn't look as refined.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It is fast, like Sublime, low on resources

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • CudaText is Free and Open SourceSublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
    • CudaText is Privacy focusedSublime Text is not according to our users
  5. WebStorm icon
     134 likes

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

    56 WebStorm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    WebStorm vs Sublime Text Comments
    dynomite567
    Negative
    0

    This is an IDE. Sublime is a text editor, not an IDE.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    WebStorm is an IDE for JavaScript with the best Intellisense, refactoring support, plug-and-play, no need to install dozens of third party plugins to get it functional.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • WebStorm is Free Personal and ProprietarySublime Text is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. Notepad3 icon
     64 likes

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

    212 Notepad3 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Notepads icon
     47 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Athas icon
     16 likes

    Lightweight, open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux featuring Vim keybindings, built-in Git support, agentic AI editing with multiple models, syntax highlighting, LSP for intelligent completion, fast performance, and efficient workflows.

    60 Athas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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.

    212 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
  10. Aptana Studio icon
     332 likes

    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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