The Best 105 Kate Alternatives

  • Kakoune

    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    Free Linux

  • Traditional Ex - Vi editor

    The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Left

    Left is a distractionless writing tool with auto-complete, a synonyms dictionary, writing statistics, markup-based navigation and a speed-reader. The application is...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Syntaxic

    A keyboard-friendly text editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Features: - Incremental search and replace - Sidebar and jump-to-file functionality - Symbolic...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • VimTouch

    VimTouch is a open source VIM port on Android. It supports full vim syntax and finger touch gestures to help VIM much more usable on touch screens. Features Touch...

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • Beaver Editor

    Beaver is an Early AdVanced EditoR. Beaver is a GTK+2 editor designed to be Light-Weight, Modular and Stylish

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Eddie

    Eddie is a programmers editor for Mac OSX and Gnome Linux. Inspired by the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, Eddie brings some of it's powerful features into a...

    Free Mac OS X Linux

  • acme

    Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • LopeEdit

    [be careful during the installation: forum ] lopeedit is a powerful programmers...

    Freemium Windows

  • Climacs

    Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • VbsEdit

    VbsEdit, the award-winning VBScript editor that dramatically reduces the time you spend writing .VBS scripts

    Freemium Windows

  • Touchqode

    Mobile source code editor. Touchqode is a true mobile code editor that comes with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and other features found in a desktop IDE. We support...

    Free Android

  • TeraPad

    TeraPad is very light-weight text editor which supports styling for css html js and other major languages.

    Free Windows

  • TinyEdit

    TinyEdit Text Editor is a free text editor, a ideal tool as a good Notepad replacement, have many powerful features for Web page developers and programmers, supports...

    Free Windows