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.
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Nextpad Alternatives
Nextpad is described as 'Is Fast, Beautiful and lightweight Notepad app designed for Windows 10. It lets you create, edit, view or print your file very easily and efficiently' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Nextpad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Nextpad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nextpad are Sublime Text, Vim, Kate and gedit.
Alternatives list
- 143 Windows Notepad alternatives
170 PSPad alternativesPSPad 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.
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209 UltraEdit alternativesUltraEdit 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).
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- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to Nextpad.
- UltraEdit is Paid and Proprietary
155 SciTE alternativesSciTE 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...
160 CotEditor alternativesSyntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.
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103 Leafpad alternativesLeafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- MacPorts
157 Xed alternativesA 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.
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118 BBEdit alternativesBBEdit 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.
78 Mousepad alternativesA 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.
85 wxMEdit alternativeswxMEdit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from MadEdit . It adds automatic updates, bookmarks, selecting lines with a tripple click, a FreeBASIC syntax file, more supported encodings (L1, CP850, CP437 etc, KOI8, UTF-x), better...
132 Programmer's Notepad alternativesNotepad 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
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