xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.




iText is described as 'Intuitive and refined text editor with word processing completely rewritten in Cocoa (so works with Afloat), and is suitable for both Power PC and Intel Macs. iText provides the simplest way to make gorgeous manuscripts on your Mac!' and is a Word Processor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to iText for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best iText alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iText are LibreOffice - Writer, Microsoft Word, Google Docs and LyX.
xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.




Vole Office suite includes Vole Word, Vole Excel, Vole Internet Expedition, Vole Windows Expedition, Vole Scheduler, Vole Diagram and Vole 4M Showroom, and is a single EXE portable software, can be used in a USB flash drive. Supports Windows7 and higher OS.




Free Cisdem PDFSigner for Mac lets you sign PDF securely and legally. Even without printer and scanner, you can directly sign PDF with mouse or trackpad or directly add scanned signature in image.



Verbum is a simple, user friendly word processor that works with a wide selection of file formats. When working with Verbum, do not expect to find fancy ribbon menus or lots of tools, like in Microsoft Office.


PDFsharp is the Open Source .NET library that easily creates and processes PDF documents on the fly from any .NET language. The same drawing routines can be used to create PDF documents, draw on the screen, or send output to any printer.
QJot is a relatively small, completely USB portable, alternative rich text editor with Unicode support that saves text files, inserts images and more.

NoStash is a web app to keep your notes organized and searchable, is indie, ethical and future proof. Indie: developed by a tiny team without funds. Ethical, your privacy and your notes are before everything else. Future Proof: the founder use it.
People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs.




MarkMyWords is the ideal markup-writing tool for authors. By using Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Textile, Wikitext, HTML or BBCode MarkMyWords makes writing articles for the web a breeze and remains platform-independent by using plain text documents.



FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.




Docmosis is a self-hosted or SaaS template-based document generation solution. Integrate with custom-built software applications or popular third-party apps using the API.




jPDFProcess is a Java library to create PDF documents, print PDF, split and merge PDF, digitally sign PDF, convert PDF from and to images, fill PDF form fields, and much more...