Thunderpad Alternatives

Thunderpad is described as '(formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Thunderpad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Thunderpad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Thunderpad are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Vim and Eclipse.

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  1. Moped icon
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    If you come from the Windows world, you may be missing a small utility: Notepad, a simple but essential tool for editing plain text files. While macOS counts on its own built-in text editor: TextEdit, it is actually more like a Rich Text Editor with full images, fonts and layout...

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    • Mac
     
  2. medit icon
     17 likes

    medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.

    Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  3. 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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • The Portable Freeware Collection
     
  4. Celebrating transience, Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don't need keeping. Designed for keyboard workflows on desktop.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. Kod icon
     22 likes

    Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

    Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

    Goals and features

    Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

    Integrated scripting environment based on No.

    48 Kod alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Jane icon
     8 likes

    Jane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. DataSpell icon
     2 likes

    JetBrains DataSpell is an IDE for data science with intelligent Jupyter notebooks, interactive Python scripts, and lots of other built-in tools.

    50 DataSpell alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Tilde icon
     3 likes

    Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. NoteTab icon
     22 likes

    NoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Windows Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. HTML-Kit icon
     21 likes

    HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages. HTML-Kit has received 95% thumbs up on Download.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. BowPad icon
     10 likes

    BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Notepas icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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