Mousepad Alternatives

Mousepad is described as 'A 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' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Mousepad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Mousepad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mousepad are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. medit icon
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    medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.

    Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  2. Xed Editor icon
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    Xed Editor is a versatile text and code editor designed specifically for Android devices, offering users the ability to create, edit, and manage their text and code files with ease on their mobile devices.

    54 Xed Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  3. Howl icon
     6 likes

    Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Code Writer icon
     2 likes

    Code Writer is a free text and code editor app for the Windows platform, downloadable from the Windows Store. Use it as a replacement for Notepad and other quick edit apps.

    181 Code Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5.  2 likes

    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Tilde icon
     3 likes

    Tilde is a 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.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Devpad icon
     6 likes

    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

    163 Devpad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. GNOME Text Editor is a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile
     
  9. Text icon
     12 likes

    Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  10. Liri Text icon
     1 like

    Material Design text editor.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. Caret-T icon
     Like

    Fork of Caret Editor that has full Tern integration (Intellisense for Javascript)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  12. ptext icon
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    A nano like text editor built with pure C.

    54 ptext alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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