BowPad Alternatives

BowPad is described as 'Small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to BowPad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best BowPad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BowPad are Sublime Text, Kate, Geany and gedit.

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  1. Pluma icon
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    Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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.
    132 Programmer's Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Notepadqq icon
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    Notepadqq is designed from developers, for developers. With its more than 100 supported languages, it is the ideal text editor for your daily tasks.

    32 Notepadqq alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Text Editor Pro icon
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    Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories and search results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Caret icon
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    Caret is a lightweight-but-powerful programmer's editor running as a Chrome Packaged App. Inspired by Sublime and built on top of the Ace editing component, it offers:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  6. TextEdit icon
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    When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and even add music and movie files.

    100 TextEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. QuickNote icon
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    Virtual scrapbook for Desktop with a plain text editor. With Quicknote, in its resizable window you can jot down your notes and organize them in categories. Beneath the normal text functions, it can let you directly access frequently run programs, manage windows tasks, and even...

    149 QuickNote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. EditPad Lite icon
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    EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:

    124 EditPad Lite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Judge0 IDE icon
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    Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

    168 Judge0 IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Judge0 IDE is the most popular SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to BowPad.

    • Judge0 IDE is Free and Open SourceBowPad is also Free and Open Source
  10. Jottr icon
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    A simple, opinionated plain text editor designed for writers, journalists and researchers. Jottr is not meant to be a full-featured text editor, but rather a simple and easy to use tool for writing. It's not aimed at developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. metapad icon
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    Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much...

    108 metapad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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