Top Alternatives to TextEdit

Sublime Text is a code editor and syntax highlighter with advanced features which can be enhanced with extensions too.

Vim is an open source advanced text editor.

gedit is a free and open-source code editor.

Aptana Studio is a free open-source web development IDE

TextMate is a graphical text editor for OS X 10.8+.

Komodo Edit is a free text editor for dynamic programming languages.

PSPad is a freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

GNU nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.

Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows and a basic text-editing program which enables computer users to create documents.

TextWrangler is an all-purpose text and code editor for Mac OS X, based on the same award-winning technology as BBEdit.

UltraEdit is the world's best text editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor.

jEdit is a free software text editor available under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. It is written in Java and runs on any operating system with Java support, including BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.

EmEditor is a lightweight extensible commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows.

CSSEdit CSS editor for Mac.

Programmers Notepad(PN1) is an open-source text editor targeted at users who work with source code.

TextPad is a text editor for the Windows.

WordPad is a basic word processor that is included with almost all versions of Windows.

EditPad Lite a text editor with all the necessary basic features. Free for non-commercial use. An ideal replacement for Notepad.

Peppermint is a Code editor for OSX.

BBEdit is a proprietary text editor.

ReText: Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText.

RJ TextEd is a freeware Unicode text and source code editor for Windows, that can also be used as a simple web development tool.

Scribes is a minimalist text editor that combines simplicity with power.

SynWrite is a free source code editor, HTML editor, and Notepad replacement for Windows systems.

HTML-Kit is an HTML editor for Microsoft Windows.

Editra is a cross-platform, open-source text editor, released under a wxWindows license.

wxMEdit is a cross-platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ & wxWidgets. wxMEdit is an improved version of MadEdit which has been discontinued.

Aquamacs is an Emacs text editor for macOS.

CotEditor is a text editor for macOS.

Jota is a text editor designed for a long text file.

MadEdit is a cross-platform text/hex editor.

HippoEDIT is a fast and easy to use Windows text editor.