Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce


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.


Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

NoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Windows Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows.



Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.




Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.



Nota is a convergent text editor. Nota is easy to use, with a simple interface by default. Nota supports syntax highlighting for various languages, focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, colors, a integrated side panel and more.


vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent and autocompletion. It can highlight any language you like using Regular Expressions.



EdytorNC is text editor for CNC programmers. Some features : bolt holes calculation; solutions of triangles calculation; speed, feed calculation; conversion inch/mm, mm/inch; code colouring; RS232 data transmission with automatic file saving and possibility to download new CNC...




4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).



