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24 alternatives to Lime Text

Open Source code editor

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lime Text launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   CotEditor▲102

   The free plain-text editor for OS X

   2014 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Atom▲145

   A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

   2014 · its alternatives →

3. 3FA
   Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor▲168

   2013 · firepad.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   GitHub Desktop▲252

   The New Native

   2017 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Brackets 1.0▲190

   An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Liquid Text 2.0▲157

   A better way to understand text - across multiple documents

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Cleartext▲305

   A text editor that allows only the 1,000 most common words

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8IA
   Iota – a text editor written in Rust▲221

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Comet▲92

   openAPI editor for nerds

   2021 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Medium Editor▲266

    The dead simple inline editor toolbar

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Macaw▲90

    A simple code editor for Swift

    2017 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Atom 1.0▲7

    GitHub's text editor

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Tinypress▲118

    Online editor for your Github page blog

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Wick Editor▲88

    The Internet's free and open-source creation suite

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Katib▲99

    A Markdown Editor for Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Hebrew

    2014 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Draft▲149

    GitHub for writing

    2013 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    FoldingText▲83

    Plain text productivity for geeks

    2014 · its alternatives →

18. 18ST
    Sublime Text Book▲163

    2014 · sublimetextbook.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Code Pad▲98

    A place for developers to save & share code snippets.

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Programmar▲88

    A place for developers to read and write

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21PE
    Phi-editor, a text editor implemented in Go and SDL▲102

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    MarkRight▲84

    A minimalistic github flavored markdown editor

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Mou▲73

    Markdown editor for web developers

    2014 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Codetree (pre-launch)▲95

    Improved Github issues

    2014 · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →