Fast, streamlined editor with extensive features, bundled with Windows since 1985. Supports plain text, UTF-8, and over 100 languages with enhanced functionality since 2018, including dark mode, Bing search, and large file handling.
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Hekapad Alternatives
Hekapad is described as 'Free fully featured lightweight text editor for Windows. It can be used to replace the classic Notepad with some cool features' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Hekapad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Hekapad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hekapad are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
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- 143 Windows Notepad alternatives
212 UltraEdit alternativesUltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).
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172 PSPad alternativesPSPad 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.
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157 SciTE alternativesSciTE 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
126 EmEditor alternativesVersatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.
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159 Xed alternativesA 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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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 types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.
124 TextPad alternativesTextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.
106 metapad alternativesMetapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...
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SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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