Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- BSD
Italy
EU
Vis Alternatives
Vis is described as 'Aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Vis for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Vis alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vis are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
Alternatives list
105 Jane alternativesJane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
VPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
China
V
133 MadEdit alternativesMadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
V
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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53 Buffer Text Editor alternativesCelebrating transience, Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don't need keeping. Designed for keyboard workflows on desktop.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
V
The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
V
126 Tilde alternativesTilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
Netherlands- EU
V
142 NoteTab alternativesNoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Windows Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Switzerland
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HippoEDIT is a powerful, fast and easy to use Windows text editor, primarily targeted at power users and programmers. It has modern and lightweight user interface, which supports different interface schemes, Multi Tab environment, seamless web and help browser, File Explorer and...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
+7
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109 Thunderpad alternativesThunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Mexico
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42 ne alternativesne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Italy
- EU
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