Notepad Alternatives

Notepad is described as 'Fast and distraction-free online writing space. Capture thoughts, take notes, and share instantly. Perfect for quick ideas, to-do lists, etc' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Notepad, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Notepad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Notepad are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. BBEdit icon
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    BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

    131 BBEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  2. Kakoune icon
     21 likes

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

    95 Kakoune alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
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  3. wxMEdit icon
     27 likes

    wxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...

    88 wxMEdit alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Notepad 4 icon
     5 likes

    A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  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.

    80 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
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  6. Nova icon
     8 likes

    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    135 Nova alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. Textastic icon
     16 likes

    Textastic is an advanced code editor for iOS and macOS with support for syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH.

    74 Textastic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  8. RustRover icon
     5 likes

    Enjoy full support when running your code inside the Rust IDE, be it for testing purposes, debugging, benchmarking, profiling, or targeting different platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  9. Pluma icon
     17 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...

    161 Pluma alternatives

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    • Linux
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  10. jEdit icon
     114 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...

    148 jEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. 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.
    136 Programmer's Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Pragtical icon
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    Pragtical is a code editor which was forked from Lite XL (also a fork of lite) written mostly in Lua with a focus on been practical rather than minimalist. The name of the editor is a mixture of the words pragmatic and practical, two words that properly define our development...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AmigaOS
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