Best Text Editor

Products Buyer's Guide
8.2
Kate
★★★★★

Kate

Kate is an editor and programmer software.

A Good Text Editor with plenty of tools - Praveen S.

Ease of use
9.1
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
8.9
9.6
Inspire Writer
★★★★★

Inspire Writer

Inspire creates a distraction-free, light markdown writing environment that boasts your productivity. From quick notes to blog posts to great novels, you focus on the content, and Inspire helps with the rest.

Inspire takes the friction out of writing. - Kurt P.

Ease of use
10.0
Support
10.0
Ease of Setup
0.0

Languages supported: English, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Chinese (Simplified)

9.2
PureBasic
★★★★★

PureBasic

PureBasic is a native 32-bit and 64-bit programming language based on established BASIC rules.

An excellent word processor for beginners and experts - Sergio C.

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9.0
GNU Emacs
★★★★★

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is a customizable text editor that is an interpreter and dialect with extension to support text editing with content-sensitive editing modes, built-in documentation, Unicode support, and more.

Amazing IDE, shell, life organizer - Justin S.

Ease of use
6.2
Support
8.1
Ease of Setup
7.8
8.6
SciTE
★★★★★

SciTE

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration programs as well as SciTE and Scintilla, themselves.

A review on Scite, a free and powerful software - Franklin M.

Ease of use
9.4
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
9.6
8.0
editra
★★★★★

editra

Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development.

Simple Basic Code Editor. - Rahul K.

Ease of use
9.8
Support
10.0
Ease of Setup
10.0
8.8
Atom
★★★★★

Atom

Atom is a desk application based on web technologies that allows you to take control of your editor with CSS and other features.

Multiple language one IDE (Many in One) - Bhavesh J.

Ease of use
9.0
Support
8.6
Ease of Setup
9.4
8.0
gedit
★★★★★

gedit

gEdit is a general purpose text editor that includes internationalized text, syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file reverting, print and print preview support and more.

Simple Text Editor - tripti t.

Ease of use
8.9
Support
7.2
Ease of Setup
8.2
9.8
Lightkey
★★★★★

Lightkey

Lightkey is an AI-powered predictive typing & spelling correction software for the PC platform, that can save up to 75% of your keystrokes, delivering an innovative and confident typing experience in 85 languages.

A very happy user - Antony R.

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Languages supported: Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Mongolian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tatar, Tajik, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yiddish, Yoruba, Maltese

9.4
SubEthaEdit
★★★★★

SubEthaEdit

SubEthaEdit can work without any Internet connection. Bonjour networking makes it easy to just collaborate without the hassle of setting up connections and jumping through hoops to see each other.

The best integrated coder notepad tool for MacOSX - Caleb P.

Ease of use
9.7
Support
9.1
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.2
Online Notepad
★★★★★

Online Notepad

This tool is likewise a sort of notepad for those customary clients who work through the assistance of web on the internet browser.

Good way to make note. - Satya Prakash N.

Ease of use
8.7
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
0.0
7.8
Text Edit Plus
★★★★★

Text Edit Plus

Text Edit Plus is a lightweight tool that enables users to easily create new text documents or to modify existing ones. The application is designed as an alternative to Notepad, by offering a wider set of features.

Text Edit is a very convenient tool to use - User in Higher Education

Ease of use
10.0
Support
10.0
Ease of Setup
10.0
4.6
Anyfile Notepad
★★★★★

Anyfile Notepad

Anyfile Notepad is a text editor that lets you open any type of files on Google Drive and Dropbox.

Simple online text editor application - Amit G.

Ease of use
6.7
Support
5.0
Ease of Setup
0.0
9.0
BBEdit
★★★★★

BBEdit

BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh that provides features for editing, searching, and minipulation of text for web authors and software developers.

Editor of incredible pages, simple and fast !!! - Joel S.

Ease of use
9.3
Support
8.7
Ease of Setup
0.0
8.8
Edit+
★★★★★

Edit+

Edit+ is a text editor, HTML editor, PHP editor, Java editor, and Hex veiwer for windows that can serve as a notepad replacement with features for web page authors and programmers.

Edit plus plus is best tool - Monika S.

Ease of use
9.3
Support
8.4
Ease of Setup
9.5
8.2
Bluefish
★★★★★

Bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.

A great web improvement service !!! - Jake S.

Ease of use
8.5
Support
8.0
Ease of Setup
0.0
9.0
Write! App
★★★★★

Write! App

Write! is a text editor designed to help users draft a blog post, keep their notes organized, collect inspirational ideas, and others.

Great, simple writing and easy to use - Elizabeth (Lynn) H.

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8.6
Textadept
★★★★★

Textadept

Textadept is a cross-platform text editor that runs on different types of platforms, that allows you control over the application using Lua programming language, as well as split veiws, code autocompletion, that is keyboard driven and self contained.

Textadept is a high quality text editor with interesting add-ons - Manuel M.

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7.8
Asciidoctor
★★★★★

Asciidoctor

A fast text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc to HTML5, DocBook and more.

Easy, efficient, and powerful way to create documentation - Ryan M.

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9.4
Neovim
★★★★★

Neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility.

Much more than an editor, neovim is flexible enough that you can extend it to be close to an IDE. - User in Logistics and Supply Chain

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8.6
Codemirror
★★★★★

Codemirror

Codemirror is a versatile text editor implemented in JavaScript for the browser. It is specialized for editing code, and comes with a number of language modes and addons that implement editing functionality.

JavaScript code editor in the browser - Margareth S.

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8.4
Textastic
★★★★★

Textastic

Textastic is an advanced code editor for iPad with rich support for syntax highlighting, (S)FTP and Dropbox.

Textastic is great! - User in Education Management

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9.4
NoteTab
★★★★★

NoteTab

NoteTab is a Notepad replacement HTML and text editor with text-processing, search and replace, capture and copy text to clipboard, reusable text snippets and macros, and other utilities to help the editing process.

An editor with good design, easy to use and multifunctional - Victor A.

Ease of use
9.0
Support
9.8
Ease of Setup
8.6

Languages supported: English

8.8
Brackets
★★★★★

Brackets

Brackets is a text editor tool that makes it easy to design in the browser, it iss crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers.

Great software for front end developers and designers - Amar p.

Ease of use
9.0
Support
8.6
Ease of Setup
0.0
9.0
Textmate
★★★★★

Textmate

TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X.

El mas avanzado Editor de Texto - Luis Vicente F.

Ease of use
9.2
Support
9.0
Ease of Setup
9.3
9.0
Stylus Studio
★★★★★

Stylus Studio

Stylus Studio Enterprise Suite is an advanced XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE) consisting of hundreds of powerful XML tools in one all-inclusive suite, and high-performance Java & .NET components to design data integration applications.

Excelente software para el manejo de lenguaje XML - Enderson Z.

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8.6
ActiveState Platform
★★★★★

ActiveState Platform

Looking for a powerful editor without all the advanced functionality an IDE comes with? Komodo IDE is for you.

Komodo Edit flies - Andrew S.

Ease of use
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Languages supported: English

8.0
mousepad
★★★★★

mousepad

mousepad is a simple open source text editor for Xfce.

Mousepad Review - Consultant in Computer Software

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7.6
EDITFILE TEXT EDITOR
★★★★★

EDITFILE TEXT EDITOR

A new Text File Editor EDITFILE 7.0.1 from GVSR Mapping Technologies, this has been specifically designed for Business Users, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Programmers and Developers who need to work on various EDI, Application text files data in a day to day business activity.

Editfile is a great option to edit files with Java format - Manuel M.

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