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ecode

Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

ecode is a code editor, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: hardware acceleration and Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “It provides a hardware-accelerated retained-mode UI toolkit with CSS styling, XML layouts, a comprehensive widget set, DPI-aware interfaces, data binding, rich text and HTML/Markdown rendering, animations,…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “It provides a hardware-accelerated retained-mode UI toolkit with CSS styling, XML layouts, a comprehensive widget set, DPI-aware interfaces, data binding, rich text and HTML/Markdown rendering, animations,…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of ecode is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

ecode is a lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance. It has been developed with the hardware-accelerated eepp GUI, which provides the core technology for the editor. The project comes as the first serious project using the eepp GUI, and it's currently being developed to improve the eepp GUI library as part of one of its main objectives.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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