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. Onivim 2 icon
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    Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor - the next iteration of the Onivim project - combining Vim-style modal editing with the aesthetics and language features of modern editors.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. SlickEdit icon
     14 likes

    SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

    92 SlickEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. medit icon
     17 likes

    Lightweight open-source text editor featuring syntax highlighting for many languages, tabbed interface, customizable keyboard shortcuts, plugin and macro support, configurable color schemes, find and replace with regex, and cross-platform compatibility for programming or general use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  4. Scribes icon
     24 likes

    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

    Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

    The res.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. XML Notepad icon
     17 likes

    XML Notepad provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.

    49 XML Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. PolyEdit Lite is a multipurpose word processor and text editor for Microsoft Windows. It is fast, small, and easy-to-use.

    76 Poly Edit Lite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Chocolat icon
     12 likes

    Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

    56 Chocolat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. ATPad icon
     3 likes

    ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement written in pure C and Windows API. Keeping simplicity of Notepad it provides many additional features. 90kb UPX repacked.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • The Portable Freeware Collection
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  9. Eric icon
     14 likes

    Eric is a full-featured IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Python and Ruby, This is one of the best options for programming in Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. BowPad icon
     10 likes

    BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

    105 BowPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used ed as a code base, access to the original sources has required a commercial Unix Source Code License for more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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