Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- MacPorts
ptext Alternatives
ptext is described as 'A nano like text editor built with pure C' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to ptext for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best ptext alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ptext are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Kate.
Alternatives list
- 114 Leafpad alternatives
134 EmEditor alternativesVersatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
United States
+7
165 Xed alternativesA text editor forked from Pluma and Gedit. Xed is the default text editor of Linux Mint. It can be customized and is available in multiple languages.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
Ireland
EU
+4
131 BBEdit alternativesBBEdit 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
95 Kakoune alternativesVim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Cygwin
France- EU
99 Textadept alternativesTextadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- United States
88 wxMEdit alternativeswxMEdit 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
China
80 Mousepad alternativesA 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Xfce
Germany- EU
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Global
136 Programmer's Notepad alternativesNotepad 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.
Platforms
- Windows
United Kingdom
+7
185 Graviton Editor alternativesGraviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Spain- EU
106 metapad alternativesMetapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
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