Top 10 Kate Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Kate Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Visual Studio Code
By Microsoft
4.7/5
(2,485)
Product Description
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, Visual Studio Code is:
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
More expensive
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

Notepad++
By Notepad++
4.6/5
(2,416)
Product Description
Notepad++ is a source code editor and notepad replacement that supports several languages in a MS Windows environment with Syntax highlighing and folding, PCRE, customizable GUI, auto-completion and more.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, Notepad++ is:
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
More usable
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

Sublime Text
By Sublime HQ
4.5/5
(1,768)
Product Description
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, Sublime Text is:
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor
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GNU Emacs
By FreeCAD
4.5/5
(83)
Product Description
GNU Emacs is a customizable text editor that is an interpreter and dialect with extension to support text editing with content-sensitive editing modes, built-in documentation, Unicode support, and more.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, GNU Emacs is:
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

UltraEdit
By Idera, Inc.
4.7/5
(1,125)
Product Description
UltraEdit is a powerful text editor and code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux that supports nearly any programming language and easily handles huge (4+ GB) files. Includes (S)FTP, SSH console, powerful find/replace with Perl regex support, scripting / macros, and more.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, UltraEdit is:
More expensive
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

Brackets
By Adobe
4.4/5
(259)
Product Description
Brackets is a text editor tool that makes it easy to design in the browser, it iss crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers.
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Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

TextPad
By Helios Software Solutions
4.4/5
(143)
Product Description
TextPad7.4 is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, TextPad is:
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
More usable
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

Leafpad
By Leafpad
3.7/5
(16)
Product Description
Leafpad is a GTK+ text editor that has implemented features in the editor such as Codeset option, auto codeset detection, undo/redo, auto/multi-line indent, drag and drop, and more.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, Leafpad is:
More usable
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

BBEdit
By Bare Bones
4.5/5
(63)
Product Description
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh that provides features for editing, searching, and minipulation of text for web authors and software developers.
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Reviewers say compared to Kate, BBEdit is:
More expensive
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Kate:
Text Editor

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