Free, open-source note-taking with rich text, cross-platform support, syntax highlighting, embedded files, and customizable interface.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Flatpak




Free, open-source note-taking with rich text, cross-platform support, syntax highlighting, embedded files, and customizable interface.




Hurmet is a web-based rich text editor endowed with live calculations. With it, you can create documents that do calculations and preserve an easy-to-read record of your work.

A minimalistic notes app. Notally it's extremely light, minimalistic and elegant. There are minimal dependencies and lines of code. (All without compromising on readability).




KeyNote NF is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always accessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application.




MyInfo is a personal information manager for Windows. It will help you capture, organize, edit and share ideas, documents, tasks, and web pages.

RightNote will help you get a grip on information overload. It is designed to be easy to use for the new-comer, but also provide advanced features once your notes start to accumulate. RightNote can store text notes, source code, spreadsheets and webpages.




Comprehensive platform offering a powerful Markdown editor, document organization, task management, and format conversion, with focus-enhancing options.




The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. Build products with real-time synchronization, amazing content experience, whiteboard collaboration, real-time editing, AI-powered content and version control efficiency.




Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is easy on the eyes. Also, Bean is available free of charge.

AnnoPad is an URL Specific Notepad.
With this tool, you can create notes for specific website addresses. Annotate your important notes with the easy to use, URL specific notepad! Aside from notetaking, you can also use this as a "smart" bookmarking tool.
This notepad.

Fast and portable note editor.
Supports: Markdown format, HTML previews, tagging, favorites, searching, Dropbox and Google Drive synchronization, embedded photos.



TreeNoote is a brand new note-taking program, free, secure and available in a portable version.




TextRoom is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen text editor developed especially writers in mind.


Angel Writer is a free text editor allowing you to create impressive documents that contain formatted text, graphics and tables. You can learn how to work with Angel Writer in five minutes since it is very similar to Microsoft Word.

Squire is an HTML5 rich text editor, which provides powerful cross-browser normalisation, whilst being supremely lightweight and flexible. It is built for the present and the future, and as such does not support truly ancient browsers.
THE BEST DOCUMENT EDITING AND OFFICE MANAGEMENT SUITE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD.




Editor.js is a block-styled editor for rich media stories. It outputs clean data in JSON instead of heavy HTML-markup. And more important thing is that Editor.js is designed to be API extendable and pluggable.




When copying text from one application and pasting it into another one, you usually get to keep the formatting of the text as well. With formatting, I here refer to font size, text color, bold, hyperlinks, et cetera.
Good Writer is a must-have app for anyone who reads or annotates PDF documents or want to create or edit notes and formal documents in open standard format which can be opened and edited in any standard word processor like Pages, Microsoft Word or Open Office.








BlueGem is a great RichText Editor and its a great alternative to Notepad (if you are looking for one). It has a same look like Notepad (except the Toolbox). If it didn't have the toolbox you would think you was using Notepad.

HotEditor is a browser-based rich text editor that provides an advantage in simplifying the workload and providing more options. HotEditor can convert HTML to BBCode and BBCode to HTML (great idea for integrating Hoteditor to forum software).
