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About
Kate is a fast multi-document, multi-view text editor for programmers by KDE. It features stuff like LSP (Language Server Protocol) support, projects, multiple cursors and selections, git integration, folder wide search, horizontal and vertical splits, vi mode, syntax highlighting for 300+ languages, built-in terminal, dynamic word wrap and much more. It is available on Linux, BSD, Windows and MacOS. Features: - MDI, window splitting, window tabbing - Spell checking - CR, CRLF, LF newline support - Encoding support (utf-8, utf-16, ascii etc.) - Encoding conversion - Regular expression based find & replace - Syntax highlighting for 300+ languages - Code and text folding - Multiple cursors and multiple selections - Block selection mode - Auto indentation - Auto completion support - Shell integration - Wide protocol support (http, ftp, ssh, webdav etc.) - Extensible via plugins - Integrated terminal - Scriptable using JavaScript - Vi mode - Intellisense support using LSP (Language Server Protocol) - DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) support - Vertical tabs/document list - Lightweight project support. Kate can open folders as projects - Code formatting using native formatters such as clang-format, prettier etc - Built in filesystem browser - CTags support - Project wide and folder wide search - Git integration
Additional information
Project
- Developer
- KDE
- License
- LGPL-2.1+ (free software)What this license lets you do
- Homepage
- kate-editor.org
- From the project
- Report a bugDonateDocumentationContact
- Languages
- 68 languages
Install
- Available via
- Flatpak · Snap (3) · Arch Linux (3) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux (2) · Slackware · Solus · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
All 18 packagings
Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, Snap Store (Beta build), Snap Store (Nightly build), AUR (Git build), AUR (Root build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Void Linux (32bit build), Slackware, Solus, Gentoo (Candidate build)
About this data
- Sources
- Sources disagree on the name: kate / kwriteSources disagree on the license
- Catalog data as of
- October 12, 2026
How each source lists it (27)
| Source | Name | Version | Built by | License | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flathub (Flatpak) | Kate | 26.04.2 | — | LGPL-2.1+ | Advanced text editor |
| Flathub (Flatpak) | KWrite | 26.04.3 | — | LGPL-2.1+ | Text Editor |
| Snap Store | kate | 25.08.0 | — | GPL-2.0+ | KDE Advanced Text Editor |
| Snap Store (Beta build) | kate | 26.04.3 | — | GPL-2.0+ | KDE Advanced Text Editor |
| Snap Store | KWrite | 25.04.3 | — | unset | Text Editor |
| Snap Store (Nightly build) | KWrite | 25.04.3 | — | unset | Text Editor |
| AUR (Git build) | kate-git | 26.07.70_r23764.g5024024285-1 | — | GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later | Advanced text editor |
| AUR (Root build) | kate-root | 26.08.1-1 | Community build, patched | CC0-1.0 AND GFDL-1.3-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT | Advanced Text Editor from the KDE project, patched to be able to run as root. |
| Debian | kate | 4:25.04.3-2 | Distribution build | — | powerful text editor |
| Debian | kwrite | 4:25.04.3-2 | Distribution build | — | simple text editor |
| Ubuntu | kate | 4:25.12.3-0ubuntu1 | Distribution build | — | powerful text editor |
| Ubuntu | kwrite | 4:25.12.3-0ubuntu1 | Distribution build | — | simple text editor |
| Fedora | kate | 26.08.1 | Distribution build | LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later | Advanced Text Editor |
| Fedora | kwrite | 26.08.1 | Distribution build | LGPL-2.0-or-later | Text Editor |
| Arch Linux | kate | 26.08.2-1 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later | Advanced text editor |
| Nixpkgs | kate | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | CC0-1.0 AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND MIT | Advanced text editor |
| openSUSE | kate | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-3.0-or-later | Advanced Text Editor |
| openSUSE | kwrite | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-3.0-or-later | KDE Text Editor |
| Alpine Linux | kate | 26.04.2-r0 | Distribution build | LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later | A multi-document, multi-view text editor |
| Alpine Linux | kwrite | 26.04.2-r0 | Distribution build | LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later | A multi-document, multi-view text editor |
| Void Linux | kate | 26.08.1_1 | Distribution build | GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later | KDE Text editor |
| Void Linux | kwrite | 26.08.1_1 | Distribution build | GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later | KDE Text editor - kwrite |
| Void Linux (32bit build) | kate-32bit | 26.08.1_1 | Distribution build | GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later | KDE Text editor (32bit) |
| Slackware | kate | 26.08.2-1 | Distribution build | — | kate (an advanced text editor for KDE) |
| Solus | kate | 25.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-only AND LGPL-3.0-only AND MIT | KDE advanced text editor |
| Gentoo (Candidate build) | kate | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-only | Multi-document editor with network transparency, Plasma integration and more |
| Gentoo (Candidate build) | kwrite | 26.08.2 | Distribution build | GPL-2.0-only | Simple text editor based on KDE Frameworks |
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Add-ons
Plugins (4)
- kate-addons — Addons used by Kate (Gentoo)
- kate-indexview-plugin — A fork from Kate's SymbolViewer plugin with a couple of modifications (AUR)
- kate-krunner-plugin — KRunner plugin for searching Kate sessions (Fedora)
- kate-plugins — Kate plugins (Fedora, openSUSE)