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Products that do what Atom does

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

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Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor▲168
2013 · firepad.io
2IA
Iota – a text editor written in Rust▲221
2014 · github.com
3RA
Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor▲143
2021 · github.com
4TT
Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text▲332
2013 · tiledtext.com
5
Brackets 1.0▲190
An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014
6
Squire▲123
The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.
2014
7NI
Neonpad.io – A neon plain text editor▲50
2021 · neonpad.io
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Editorially▲95
Collaborative writing tool
2013
9
Paragraphs▲272
A minimalist writing app for Mac
2015
10AI
An in-browser text editor to easily create static HTML▲140
2022 · triplelog.com
11WO
Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps▲215
2014 · github.com
12A2
Andedit 2, a text editor for Android▲26
2013 · andedit.com
13
Trix▲184
A rich text editor for everyday writing
2015
14TK
Two Kilo – A curses-based text editor in 2kb of code▲67
2019 · 0x0.st
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CotEditor▲102
The free plain-text editor for OS X
2014
16WA
Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)▲133
2017 · github.com
17TA
TextFlow – Automator workflows for text manipulation in OS X▲76
2015 · github.com
18
Macaw▲90
A simple code editor for Swift
2017
19
Draft.js▲166
A framework for building rich text editors in React
2016
20BD
Bangle.dev – Collection of tools for building rich text editors▲95
2021 · github.com
21
Liquid Text 2.0▲157
A better way to understand text - across multiple documents
2016
22CA
Conclave, a decentralized, real-time, collaborative text editor▲22
2018 · conclave-team.github.io
23
PostScripting▲111
Proofreading and editing done right
2015
24PE
Phi-editor, a text editor implemented in Go and SDL▲102
2018 · github.com

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