Hekapad is a free fully featured lightweight text editor for Windows. It can be used to replace the classic Notepad with some cool features.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Italy
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Text Edit Plus Alternatives
Text Edit Plus is described as 'Lightweight tool that enables users to easily create new text documents or to modify existing ones. The application is designed as an alternative to Notepad, by offering a wider set of features. Some of the features: Adding date and time' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Text Edit Plus for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Text Edit Plus alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Text Edit Plus are Sublime Text, Vim, Kate and gedit.
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181 Code Writer alternativesCode Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
United States
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92 BDV Notepad alternativesIt is a comfortable text editor and a Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge!
Platforms
- Windows
72 Mystix alternativesMystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.
Platforms
- Windows
RoughDraft is a freeware word processor for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, plays and screenplays.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
77 skEdit alternativesSimple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
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111 MetroTextual alternativesMetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
Australia
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164 4coder alternatives4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- United States
- 149 Vis alternatives
Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
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Cross platform text/hex editor based on MadEdit with a lot of fixes and new features added, such as Drag-Drop Edit(cross platform), Highlight word, etc.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
60 Textplorer alternativesTextplorer supports data field coloring in structured files, ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, MAC or user defined character sets, CRLF detection, bookmarks, fast load of large files,...
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
121 IT-Edit alternativesIT-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.
Platforms
- Linux
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