Notepad++ Alternatives

A free and open-source IDE for macOS, Linux, and Windows developed by GitHub Inc. The application is build on the Electron framework and provides a wide eco-system of add-ons that can be used to extend the IDE further. Atom is loved by developers across the globe.

A free and open source IDE based on Electron and Atom, developed by Microsoft. Visual Studio Code or VS Code is an extensible IDE or coding editor that is loved by many developers around the globe. The editor combines a streamlined UI with advanced code assistance, code nagivation and intellisense.

A loved text editor and IDE for web developers and designers that provides unmatched responsiveness. Sublime Text provides a wide selection of editing command including indenting or un-indenting, paragraph reformatting, line joining , multiple selections, regular expression search and replace, incremental find as you type, and preserve case on replace. The IDE can also be extended with community built packages to further improve language detection, auto-complete and intellisense features.

Apache NetBeans is free and open-source IDE that combines development environment, a tooling platform and application framework into one package. With Apache NetBeans developer can build applications with Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and other languages. Apache NetBeans also features code highlighting, both syntactically and semantically, while also letting developers refactor code with a wide range of powerful and handy tools. The software is openly developed by the Apache Foundation and is available for macOS, Linux, Windows and BSD.

gedit is a free and open source IDE native to the GNOME desktop environment. With gedit you can work with a wide range of programming languages including C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, Python and Perl. The IDE automatically detect programming language and provide code color highlighting accordingly. It also include features like search and replace, spell checking, printing and support for most filte types.

TextMate is a powerful and customizable, general-purpose GUI text editor for macOS. TextMate supports a huge varity of programming languages and actions that can be written for any language that can work with stdin, stdout, and environment variables, and for complex interactions. TextMate is released fully open-source under the GNU General Public License.

TextWrangler is an all-purpose text and code editor for macOS. TextWrangler is now BBEdit.

A free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK with basic IDE features. Geany is designed and developed with performance in mind, and provides limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. Geany is available for a wide variety of operating systems including BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows.

Eclipse IDE is a leading open platform for professional developers. With the Eclipse IDE you can write applications in your favorite programming language with confidence.

With Adobe Dreamweaver, you can quickly create and publish web pages almost anywhere with web design software that supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more. Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development tool from Adobe Inc and sold as a part of Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe Dreamweaver is available for the macOS and Windows operating systems.

The Bluefish Editor is a free and powerful editor that is used by programmers and web developers. Bluefish supports a handfull of programming and markup languages including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Go, Vala, Ada, D, SQL, Perl, ColdFusion, JSP, Python and Ruby. The software is developed openly and is released for free under the GNU GPL license.

Komodo Edit is a free and open source text editor designed for dynamic programming languages, inclduing PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML5, CSS and more. With Komodo Edit you can enjoy a development process supported by syntax coloring, folding, background syntax checking, and excellent auto-complete and code intellisense. Komodo Edit is developed and released as open source software by ActiveState, in an effort to provide an more accessible version of their commercial software Komodo IDE.