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AkelPad

 89 likes

A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Windows
  • PortableApps.com
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (5)
89likes
7comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Support for Themes
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Text to Speech
  2.  Support for scripting
  3.  No registration required
  4.  Full-Text Search
  5.  Ad-free
  6. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
  7.  Code Formatting
  8.  Built-in Dictionary
  9.  No Tracking
  10.  Portable
  11.  Works Offline
  12.  Spell Checking
  13.  Syntax Highlighting
  14.  Autocompletion

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  • RemovedUser, u7741339 and RogueScholar liked AkelPad
    about 2 months ago
  • POX updated AkelPad
    9 months ago
  • lian00 updated AkelPad
    9 months ago
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Top Positive Comment
Mahdy Abdelmotaleb
Dec 25, 2020
1

Just the right amount of features, feels really like an improved Notepad. It's very easy to configure it to use the colors you prefer. The fullscreen plugin is excellent for distraction-free writing.

Maxis
Jan 30, 2021
0

Small, fast and powerfull.

Gamliel Fishkin
Jan 16, 2018
1

Many years ago, I was seeking for an alternative to NotePad, without real success during long time. But when I found AkelPad, I stopped to use NotePad. And I was using AkelPad every day, up to the moment when I stopped to use Windows.

10basetom
Sep 19, 2016
-1

I'm a long-time metapad and Notepad2 user, and I thought AkelPad would make a nice "upgrade" from Notepad2, but after trying it out I returned to Notepad2. Although it has more features than Notepad2, I found the interface more confusing and less intuitive. For example, in Notepad2 I was able to easily change to a dark theme without much fuss, but with AkelPad I fumbled for 15 minutes and was still not able to change to a dark theme, so I gave up (I did see an option for "Solarized Dark" in one of the plugin settings, but selecting it didn't do anything). Also, the settings are broken into two separate dialogues for core settings and plugin settings, and it's hard to remember which dialogue to open to change a particular setting (it doesn't help that a lot of the plugins are part of the core feature set in other code editors). All in all, it's got potential, but in its current state it's too unpolished and quirky for my taste. If Notepad2 is too limited for you, then there is a fork called Notepad2-mod that has some important additions that you may find useful.

astral_cyborg
Sep 12, 2016
1

Same GUI with Notepad, but much more options, plugins and tab support. Setup has the ability to replace the Windows Notepad without deleting it of course.

realnabarl
Nov 16, 2012
1

I'm not a coder and I like this the most. It's similar to EmEditor but free.

dgemu12
Jan 16, 2011
0

Small lightweight and portable, can use add-ons to further usefulness.

What is AkelPad?

A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.

Features

  • Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window modes (PMDI);
  • Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);
  • Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Seven);
  • Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE);
  • Support of any codepage installed in the system;
  • Support of DOS/Windows, Unix and Mac newline formats;
  • Preview file open;
  • Correct pseudographics displaying;
  • Column text selection;
  • Multi-level undo;
  • Fast search/replace text strings;
  • Remember file codepage and caret position;
  • Printing of a document and print preview;
  • Support of language modules;
  • Plugins support (syntax highlighting, folding, auto-completion, scripts execution, keyboard macros and much more).

AkelPad information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source (BSD-2-Clause) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4
  • Alternatives

    88 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about AkelPad, and it has gotten 89 likes

AkelPad was added to AlternativeTo by shamilbi on May 5, 2009 and this page was last updated Oct 16, 2024.