AkelPad Alternatives

AkelPad is described as 'Open source text editor with notepad-style interface, supports files of any size, multi-window modes, Unicode codepages, plugins, and 20 language modules' and is a popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to AkelPad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best AkelPad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AkelPad are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. UltraEdit icon
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    UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    229 UltraEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Windows Notepad icon
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    Fast, streamlined editor with extensive features, bundled with Windows since 1985. Supports plain text, UTF-8, and over 100 languages with enhanced functionality since 2018, including dark mode, Bing search, and large file handling.

    147 Windows Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. PSPad icon
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    PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.

    184 PSPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. SciTE icon
     149 likes

    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    171 SciTE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  5. EmEditor icon
     78 likes

    Versatile 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.

    133 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. BBEdit icon
     48 likes

    BBEdit 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.

    129 BBEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. ReText icon
     48 likes

    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    88 ReText alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Xed icon
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    A 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.

    165 Xed alternatives

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    • Linux
     
  9. Notepad 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. jEdit icon
     114 likes

    jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. SynWrite icon
     31 likes

    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander
     
  12. SlickEdit icon
     14 likes

    SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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