Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Smart Text Editor

Product categories

Calculator Content Collaboration Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Knowledge Base Note Taking Personal Knowledge Base Rich Text Editor Software Development Text Editors WYSIWYG Editor

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Smart Text Editor are Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, and Textmate. 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
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 1012 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
3

Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 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
Trix Landing Page
5

Trix

A rich text editor for everyday writing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #IDEs And Text Editors 12 social mentions
MediumEditor Landing Page
6

MediumEditor

MediumEditor is a simple inline editor toolbar built with JavaScript.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #IDEs And Text Editors 2 social mentions
Quill Landing Page
7

Quill

Powerful, API-driven rich text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #IDEs And Text Editors 29 social mentions
ProseMirror Landing Page
8

ProseMirror

A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Rich Text Editor #Text Editors #IDEs And Text Editors 33 social mentions
NumPad Landing Page
9

NumPad

A web-based text editor with a powerful built-in calculator
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Calculator #Productivity #Unit Conversion 4 social mentions
TiddlyWiki Landing Page
10

TiddlyWiki

a non-linear personal web notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions
medium-draft Landing Page
11

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medium-draft

A medium like rich text editor built upon draft-js
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #IDE
CotEditor Landing Page
12

CotEditor

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