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. CotEditor icon
     42 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.

    161 CotEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Xed icon
     23 likes

    A text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.

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    • Linux
     
  3. Icecoder icon
     25 likes

    A lightweight yet powerful IDE/code editor that comes in both Web and desktop editions, the latter written with PHP and including choices for several platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).

    64 Icecoder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Textadept icon
     39 likes

    Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...

    93 Textadept alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Mousepad icon
     35 likes

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    78 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
     
  6. Kakoune icon
     20 likes

    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    85 Kakoune alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
     
  7. jEdit icon
     115 likes

    jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Pluma icon
     18 likes

    Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

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    • Linux
     
  9. Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes.

    These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

    • Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes
    • Multi-language use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Orwell Dev-C++ icon
     43 likes

    Orwell Dev-C++ is a Portable (IDE) Integrated Development Environment and Compiler for the C++ programming language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Graviton Editor icon
     17 likes

    Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Lime Text icon
     32 likes

    Experimental Sublime Text clone. The Backend is written in Go (Programming Language). If you are fluent in go, go ahead fork the projekt. This project is at an early stage. It is a chance and a challenge.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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