Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Sublime Text

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.

As Sublime Text is an open source project, you can find more open source alternatives and stats on LibHunt.

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Coding Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Software Development Text Editors Tool Web Development Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Sublime Text are Visual Studio Code, Vim, 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.

Visual Studio Code Landing Page
1

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
2

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 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
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
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
5

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 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
Textmate Landing Page
7

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
Aptana Studio Landing Page
8

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
Geany Landing Page
9

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
10

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions
CotEditor Landing Page
11

CotEditor

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