Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MS Paint IDE

Product categories

Coding Developer Tools Front End Package Manager Game Engine IDE IDEs And Text Editors OS & Utilities Online Services Package Manager Product Presentation Software Development Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to MS Paint IDE are Scoop, Micro, and Notepad++. 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.

Scoop Landing Page
1

Scoop

A command-line installer for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions
Micro Landing Page
2

Micro

Modern terminal-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 76 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
3

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
Brackets Landing Page
4

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
5

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1010 social mentions
CotEditor Landing Page
6

CotEditor

Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 25 social mentions
Ruffle Landing Page
7

Ruffle

An open source Flash player
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Online Services #Product Presentation #IDE 229 social mentions
Lightspark Landing Page
8

Lightspark

The Lightspark project
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Online Services #Product Presentation #IDE 9 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
9

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
Notepad3 Landing Page
10

Notepad3

Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development
Vim Landing Page
11

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
12

Neovim

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