Notepad++ Alternatives

Notepad++ is described as 'Free open-source code editor and Notepad replacement supporting multiple languages, featuring high speed, low resource usage, privacy focus, and plugin extensibility' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Notepad++ for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Notepad++ alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Notepad++ are Geany, Vim, VSCodium and Sublime Text.

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  1. Poly Edit Lite icon

    Poly Edit Lite

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    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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  2. TeaCode icon

    TeaCode

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    A powerful app, created to write code super fast.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    medit

     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
    • Global
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  7. Lite icon

    Lite

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    lite is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Notepas icon

    Notepas

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    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

    109 Notepas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Pe (Programmer’s Editor) icon

    Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

     11 likes

    Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML autocompletion...

    105 Pe (Programmer’s Editor) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Haiku
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  12. Rustroid icon

    Rustroid

     2 likes

    A Rust IDE for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  13. Chocolat icon

    Chocolat

     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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Text Editing
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  14. CoffeeCup HTML Editor icon

    CoffeeCup HTML Editor

     13 likes

    The CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor is a drag-and-drop HTML Editor with built-in FTP uploading. It has wizards for tables, frames, forms, and fonts, and comes with all HTML 4.0 and XHTML tags.

    52 CoffeeCup HTML Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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