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
Tilde Alternatives
Tilde is described as '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' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Tilde for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Tilde alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tilde are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.
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
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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
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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
Introducing Fastedit, designed to make editing and organizing your documents effortless. With the ability to open multiple tabs, you can easily edit or view multiple documents at once. The app also features line numbering and custom designs to personalize your experience.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
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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
A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
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
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