Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Atom

Atom

At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Atom are VS Code, Sublime Text, and Vim. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

VS Code Landing Page
1

VS Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 1215 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
2

Sublime Text

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 3 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
3

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 10 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
4

Netbeans

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 17 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
5

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 48 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
6

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 176 social mentions
GNU Emacs Landing Page
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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 6 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
8

Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 16 social mentions
Aptana Studio Landing Page
9

Aptana Studio

The world’s most powerful open-source web development IDE just got better. Rebuilt from the ground-up. It's now much faster, customizable and includes new features to help you be more productive.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors
Geany Landing Page
10

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 6 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
11

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 117 social mentions
Spacemacs Landing Page
12

Spacemacs

Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #IDE #Text Editors 6 social mentions