Hacker Pad Alternatives

Hacker Pad is described as 'Convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way' and is an app. There are more than 100 alternatives to Hacker Pad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Hacker Pad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hacker Pad are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. GNU nano icon
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    GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.

    167 GNU nano alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Haiku
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  2. Notepad3 icon
     66 likes

    Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more.

    225 Notepad3 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  3. CotEditor icon
     47 likes

    Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

    179 CotEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. Bluefish Editor icon
     164 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    229 Bluefish Editor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  5. Qt Creator icon
     111 likes

    Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) built for the maximum developer experience. Qt Creator runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop operating systems and allows developers to create software across desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms.

    131 Qt Creator alternatives

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    • BSD
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  6. Aptana Studio icon
     332 likes

    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Lapce icon
     27 likes

    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    204 Lapce alternatives

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  8. UltraEdit icon
     162 likes

    UltraEdit is a commercially maintained editor built for critical work where performance, reliability, and security matter most.

    230 UltraEdit alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  9. PSPad icon
     203 likes

    PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.

    185 PSPad alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. SciTE icon
     149 likes

    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    172 SciTE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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