Top 10 SlickEdit Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to SlickEdit Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Visual Studio Code
By Microsoft
4.7/5
(2,477)
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 SlickEdit, Visual Studio Code is:
More usable
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
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 SlickEdit, UltraEdit is:
Better at support
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
Text Editor

Notepad++
By Notepad++
4.6/5
(2,412)
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 SlickEdit, Notepad++ is:
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
Text Editor
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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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Reviewers say compared to SlickEdit, Brackets is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
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 SlickEdit, TextPad is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
Text Editor

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 SlickEdit, GNU Emacs is:
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
Text Editor

CodePen
By CodePen
4.6/5
(95)
Product Description
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.
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Reviewers say compared to SlickEdit, CodePen is:
More usable
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
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 SlickEdit, BBEdit is:
More usable
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
Text Editor

EmEditor
By Emurasoft
4.4/5
(27)
Product Description
EmEditor is a text editor for Windows that supplies larger files and Unicode, macros, plug-ins and more.
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Reviewers say compared to SlickEdit, EmEditor is:
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
More expensive
Categories in common with SlickEdit:
Text Editor

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