The Best 153 SynWrite Alternatives

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    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.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce

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    Bluefish Editor

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • jEdit icon

    jEdit

    jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • AkelPad icon

    AkelPad

    A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Leafpad icon

    Leafpad

    Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD MacPorts Cygwin

    Lightweight Drag n drop
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    programmers notepad

    Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • TextPad icon

    TextPad

    TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements.

    Commercial Windows

  • metapad icon

    metapad

    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Anjuta icon

    Anjuta

    Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

  • ReText icon

    ReText

    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • BBEdit icon

    BBEdit

    BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Intype icon

    Intype

    Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins.

    Commercial Windows

  • TextEdit icon

    TextEdit

    When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and...

    Free Mac OS X

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    MacVim

    MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as: * bindings to standard OS X keyboard shortcuts (?Z, ?V, ?A, ?G, etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X