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📝 Text Editors

Software designed for writing and editing plain text, offering functionalities ranging from simple note-taking to complex code editing and document formatting.

The best Text Editors based on votes, our collection of reviews, verified products and a total of 9,572 factors.

Best Text Editors in 2025

  1. 1703

    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft

    Open Source

    /vs-code-alternatives
  2. 834

    Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.

    Open Source

    /sublime-text-alternatives
  3. LiveSession helps you analyze users’ behavior, improve UX, find JS bugs, and increase conversion rates using session replays, and event-based product analytics.

    Try for free freemium $99.0 / Monthly (10k sessions / unlimited users / 1-month data retention)

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  4. 548

    A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

    Open Source

    /notepad-plus-plus-alternatives
  5. 657

    Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing

    Open Source

    /vim-alternatives
  6. 492

    Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft.

    /microsoft-visual-studio-alternatives
  7. 380

    A front end web development playground.

    /codepen-alternatives
  8. 475

    Capable and Ergonomic IDE for JVM

    /intellij-idea-alternatives
  9. 388

    Xcode is Apple’s powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 includes the Xcode IDE, instruments, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.

    /xcode-alternatives
  10. 256

    Online playground for React

    Open Source

    /codesandbox-alternatives
  11. 301

    A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.

    Open Source

    /typora-alternatives
  12. 498

    NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.

    Open Source

    /netbeans-alternatives
  13. 339

    Code, create, andlearn together. Use our free, collaborative, in-browser IDE to code in 50+ languages — without spending a second on setup.

    /replit-alternatives
  14. 254

    Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.

    /eclipse-alternatives

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