MyTextArea AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like MyTextArea

MyTextArea is described as 'Quick and simple online text editor for plain text. It features plain text editing, local storage (saving to browser storage), character/word counter. New features added on a regular basis' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MyTextArea, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, PortableApps.com, The Portable Freeware Collection and Linux apps. The best MyTextArea alternative is Notepad3, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to MyTextArea are Windows Notepad, metapad, EditPad Lite and TED Notepad.

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  1. Notepad3 icon
     64 likes

    Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Windows Notepad icon
     181 likes

    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.

    143 Windows Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. metapad icon
     43 likes

    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...

    106 metapad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. EditPad Lite icon
     43 likes

    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:

    122 EditPad Lite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. TED Notepad icon
     17 likes

    Replace notepad with free Unicode notepad replacement, rich in innovative features, text-processing functions, tools and hot-keys.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. ATPad icon
     3 likes

    ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement written in pure C and Windows API. Keeping simplicity of Notepad it provides many additional features. 90kb UPX repacked.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • The Portable Freeware Collection
     
  7. Edit Pad icon
     2 likes

    Fast, web-based plain text editor for quickly taking notes online.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. It is a web-based, simple text editor. It is also word counter, character counter and line counter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. A free online notepad to create, store, edit and delete notes. No login required to the use online notepad. Search/sort notes by date and title. Auto save feature that will save your note as you type.

    16 Zippyjot.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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