Top 15 TextMate Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

TextMate brings Apples 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.

1. SuperbEdit

SuperbEdit Extensible and light programmers' text editor.SuperbEdit features Syntax Highlighting, Folder Management, Source Control Integration and much more...ExtensibleSuperbEdit has been developed from the start to be extensible via Plugins (called Packages)It's easy to create one and (in the future) share it with others......

2. MadEdit-Mod

MadEdit-Mod Madedit-Mod is a cross platform text/hex editor based on MadEdit .Current Feature list:Original features from MadEdit(Hex Edit, Column Edit, many encodings support, etc) with lots of bug fixesMore encodings supported, eg, GB18030, CP874, CP866, KOI8-R and KOI8-U Macintosh encodings(Roman, Japanese, Chinese-trad, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai,......

3. Jota+ Text Editor

Jota+ Text Editor Powerful text editor for Android.Jota+ (i-o-ta plus) renwaled as a MAJOR UPDATE of Jota Text Editor.New features of Jota+- Support multi-file feature!- Support external file systems! ( Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive etc )- Support root access!- Modern UI based on ICS!- Highlight searching words!(External FS and root access needs plugins. If......

4. Textastic

Textastic Textastic is a text editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac with rich support for syntax highlighting, FTP, SFTP and Dropbox.FEATURES• Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages:HTML, XML, Markdown, Objective-C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, shell scripts and many more (full list available on the website)• Compatible......

5. Eclipse Xtext

Eclipse Xtext Xtext is an open-source framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unlike standard parser generators, Xtext not only generates a parser, but also a class model for the Abstract Syntax Tree and a fully featured, customizable Eclipse-based IDE.Xtext is being developed in the Eclipse Project as part of......

6. TweakStyle

TweakStyle TweakStyle is an Integrated Development Environment for Web Development.Unlike most IDEs, TweakStyle is tailor-made for Front-end Development and understands Web Design.It tends to packs all you need to code, preview and debug web pages with the perfect blend of features.TweakStyle may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license......

7. Fraise

Fraise Fraise is an open source text-editor for OS X, forked from Smultron . It has a very native Cocoa UI and supports syntax highlighting for many different programming, scripting and coding languages.......

8. JetBrains MPS

JetBrains MPS JetBrains MPS is a metaprogramming system which is being developed by JetBrains. It implements language-oriented programming. MPS is an environment for language definition, a Language Workbench, and integrated development environment (IDE) for such languages.Composable languagesDevelopers from different domains can benefit from domain specific language extensions in general purpose programming languages.......

9. MetroTextual

MetroTextual MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics. Hotshot programmers will also enjoy MetroTextual’s syntax highlighting; which is powered by Scintilla.Features:MetroTextual is minimalist and lightning fast. It’s not feature-packed;......

10. HippoEDIT

HippoEDIT 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 Project Explorer, external tools integration and more smart......

11. Devpad

Devpad Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.- Supports syntax highlighting and line numbering.- Import files from FTP, archives, FlowDocuments and......

12. Ynote Classic

Ynote Classic Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent and autocompletion. It can highlight any language you like using Regular Expressions. It can deal with large files (100k lines and more)......

13. Kakoune

Kakoune Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones.Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection......

14. SynWrite

SynWrite SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.SynWrite features: syntax highlighting for lots of languages; fully customizable highlighting; code folding; tree structure view for source code; support for almost all encodings; auto-completion; source code templates; clipboard history panel; search, replace with regular expressions......

15. Notepas

Notepas Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.Exclusive features:- Alpha blended coloring supporting multiple layers of transparency for both text and background.- Code filter: a tool to filter lines......