The Best 117 GNU Emacs Alternatives

  • Micro icon

    Micro

    Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • GetDiz icon

    GetDiz

    GetDiz is a fully featured text editor which can replace Notepad while maintaining an incredible speed, ease of use and small size. You can display and edit any text...

    Free Windows

  • Enki icon

    Enki

    Enki is a text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Vico icon

    Vico

    Vico is a programmers text editor for Mac OS X. Some of the features are: strong focus on keyboard control (vi key bindings), integrated SFTP, compatible with textmate...

    Freemium Mac OS X

  • SlickEdit icon

    SlickEdit

    SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Keypress Editor icon

    Keypress Editor

    This is the editor you were looking for. Keypress is an offline, desktop based code editor. Use Keypress to edit your local files, on any platform. Keypress features...

    Free Chrome OS Chrome

  • FoldingText icon

    FoldingText

    FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • gEcrit icon

    gEcrit

    gEcrit is a Python IDE. Its focus is on simplicity and ease of use. It is fast and lightweight. It features Python indentation, line numbers, code folding, syntax...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Macchiato icon

    Macchiato

    Macchiato is a simple plain text editor with a twist. Modeled after TextEdit's plain text mode, the editor is a chrome-less blank canvas. However, it is built from...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Devpad icon

    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...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • xPad. icon

    xPad.

    xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad...

    Free Mac OS X

  • CudaText icon

    CudaText

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. Features include: Syntax highlight for many languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, JavaScript, HTML, CSS...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • SourceKit icon

    SourceKit

    A Textmate like lightweight programmer's text editor right inside of Chrome. It saves files directly to Dropbox, so if you have the Dropbox sync software installed...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome

  • MetroTextual icon

    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...

    Free Windows

  • PHP Studio icon

    PHP Studio

    PHP Studio is an easy-to-use and comprehensive development solution for PHP based websites and applications. This advanced PHP editor has many features that will...

    Commercial Windows