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. XML Tree is a basic cross-platform tree view XML editor. It displays XML files as tree views and allows basic operations: adding, editting and deleting text nodes and their attributes. The main goal is providing a simple tool to create/edit XML configuration files for users...

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    • Windows
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  2. Araneae icon
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    Lightweight text editor featuring syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, instant browser preview even unsaved, tabbed documents, drag-and-drop for files and images, customizable quick clips, and a streamlined design focused on web coding.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. flowspark icon
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    FlowSpark is a next-generation AI Agent for Enterprise platform, focusing on moving AI beyond the "chatbox" and into real-world production. We provide a robust ecosystem of specialized agents that handle everything from document intelligence to creative design.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  4. IT-Edit icon
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    IT-Edit (Integrated Terminal Editor) provide a text editor with syntax highlight, line numbering and with the basics text editing functionalities, a file managing interface and terminals in the same window as the editor.

    121 IT-Edit alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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    Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) library, called ESA, that provides an Emacs-style user interface, rather than the normal CLIM UI.

    87 Climacs alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  6. 100% FREE .NET WYSIWYG HTML editor, supports design, source, preview modes, and supports many HTML features, such as font, bold, italic, underline, foreground color, background color, numeric items, symbol items, indent, aligning, hyperlink, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    TextMorph is a FREE powerful ASCII text formatter. It is also a text editor, similar to Notepad. There are lots of text editing programs around, but TextMorph has a number of things that set it apart. TextMorph has a number of "tools" that you can apply to the text...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  8. GCodeWorkShop is a multi-functional software for processing programs for CNC machines. The basis of the software is an advanced text editor for editing G-codes. In addition to the usual things like syntax highlighting, this editor can do block renumbering, insertion/deletion of...

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    • Linux
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  9. Textplorer icon
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    Textplorer supports data field coloring in structured files, ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, MAC or user defined character sets, CRLF detection, bookmarks, fast load of large files,...

    60 Textplorer alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. DtPad icon
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    DtPad is a Windows text editor, developed with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and identified by many advanced features, including HTML and XML code management, search in files, search with regular expressions, note mode (light window in foreground), built-in multilanguage support...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  11. JujuEdit icon
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    JujuEdit is a file editor, or alternatively a text editor with knobs-on. It is an application designed for me and people like me. At its simplest, it makes a fine replacement for Notepad. It may appeal more to computer nerds who like syntax hilighting and advanced find/replace...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  12. Janus is a simple, native Linux text editor. Supports UTF-8 and binary data through it's binary editing mode. Spiritual successor to Leafpad.

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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