Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Texts

Product categories

Coding Developer Tools IDE Knowledge Management Markdown Editor Markdown Viewer Note Taking Notes Office & Productivity Software Development Text Editors Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Texts are Typora, Haroopad, and Visual Studio Code. 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.

Typora Landing Page
1

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions
Haroopad Landing Page
2

Haroopad

Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Graphic Design Software
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
3

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1009 social mentions
StackEdit Landing Page
4

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
Zettlr Landing Page
5

Zettlr

Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Markdown Editor #Knowledge Management 10 social mentions
iA Writer Landing Page
6

iA Writer

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $29.99 / One-off
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Writing Tools 6 social mentions
Boostnote Landing Page
7

Boostnote

Boostnote is an open-source note-taking app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions
MacDown Landing Page
8

MacDown

MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 7 social mentions
Notable App Landing Page
9

Notable App

The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Notes #Note Taking #Todos 33 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
10

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
11

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
Notepad++ Landing Page
12

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