Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to ReText

Product categories

Coding Developer Tools Development IDE IDEs And Text Editors Knowledge Management Markdown Editor Markdown Viewer Office & Productivity Software Development Text Editors Web Development Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to ReText are Sublime Text, Netbeans, 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.

Sublime Text Landing Page
1

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
Netbeans Landing Page
2

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
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
Aptana Studio Landing Page
4

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
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development
Vim Landing Page
5

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Typora Landing Page
6

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions
CotEditor Landing Page
7

CotEditor

Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 25 social mentions
StackEdit Landing Page
8

StackEdit

Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 49 social mentions
Icecoder Landing Page
9

Icecoder

ICEcoder is a browser code editor which provides a modern approach to building websites.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Development
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
10

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Howl Landing Page
11

Howl

General purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Office & Productivity 1 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
12

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions