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, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Notepad++ alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. Other great apps like Notepad++ are Visual Studio Code, Geany, Kate and Vim.

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  1. Notepad icon
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    Notepad is a fast and distraction-free online writing space. Capture thoughts, take notes, and share instantly. Perfect for quick ideas, to-do lists, etc.

    54 Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Easy WebContent is an online web based application that makes updating and editing web sites available to anyone who owns or has a web site – easy. The program is available online and it works with nearly all HTML based websites.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Arachnophilia is a Web page development workshop and general programming tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
     
  4. DevTEd Lite is a free source code editor that supports several languages. System requirements: MS WIndows 10 or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Bird is a UNICODE based free text editor that you can create and edit text what you need. Added even more clarity in the characters you typed. It reads ASCII as well as UNICODE text, UNICODE up to LE (Little Endian). Its not portable, needed installation in the computer only.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. JOE icon
     18 likes

    JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. ATPad icon
     3 likes

    ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement written in pure C and Windows API. Keeping simplicity of Notepad it provides many additional features. 90kb UPX repacked.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • The Portable Freeware Collection
     
  8. ConTEXT icon
     11 likes

    ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Oxygen XML Editor is a cross platform XML Editor providing tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XSL, XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, SOAP and WSDL.

    27 Oxygen XML Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Enki icon
     11 likes

    Enki is a text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as quickly as possible. Without mouse. -Lighweight. Some IDEs show splashscreen. enki will never do it. It just sta.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. YuranPad icon
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    Download YuranPad for free. YuranPad is a free text editor, for both platforms : Microsoft Windows 7/8/10/XP/Vista/2003 and Linux (distributions like : Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, Centos, Redhat, Fedora, ...) with minimal system requirements.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Ynote Classic icon
     7 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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