The Best 102 GNU nano Alternatives

  • MadEdit icon

    MadEdit

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets. MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

  • HippoEDIT icon

    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...

    Commercial Windows

  • Redcar icon

    Redcar

    Redcar is a text editor for programmers written in Ruby. At the moment, it’s a young enough project that it is mainly of interest to Rubyists who want to use Ruby to...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Notepad3 icon

    Notepad3

    Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • 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

  • Simple Code Editor icon

    Simple Code Editor

    Simple Code Editor is a simple, elegant, and powerful code editor, with many features.

    Free Windows

  • EdytorNC icon

    EdytorNC

    EdytorNC is text editor for CNC programmers. Some features : bolt holes calculation; solutions of triangles calculation; speed, feed calculation; conversion inch/mm...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • BDV Notepad icon

    BDV Notepad

    It is a comfortable text editor and a Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and...

    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

  • skEdit icon

    skEdit

    Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • IT-Edit icon

    IT-Edit

    IT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • RichEdit (formerly PrepixPad) icon

    RichEdit (formerly PrepixPad)

    Lightweight, handy and useful text editor which allows you to create, open, and save files using both the Rich Text Format and the Plain Text Format. Vikon has all the...

    Free Windows

  • Basic Notepad icon

    Basic Notepad

    Basic Notepad is a plain and simple text editor. You can use this wonderful too to process your plain text documents easy without any text formatting.

    Commercial