Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to GNU nano

Product categories

Code Editor Coding Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Software Development Terminal Text Editors Tool

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to GNU nano are Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, and Sublime Text. 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.

Notepad++ Landing Page
1

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
2

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1008 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
3

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
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
4

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
5

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
GNU Emacs Landing Page
6

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
7

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions
Micro Landing Page
8

Micro

Modern terminal-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 76 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
9

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
10

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
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Bytes Editor by Delicious Lines Landing Page
11

Bytes Editor by Delicious Lines

Bytes is a fast, lightweight and easy to customise text editor and terminal emulator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Developer Tools #IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors
Notepad3 Landing Page
12

Notepad3

Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development