Open Source Notepad++ Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Notepad++ is Geany. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Notepad++ and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Notepad++ are Kate, Vim, VSCodium and gedit.

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  1. 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.

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    Guest
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    For those looking to replace Notepad++'s UI and functionality with a similar editor but on Linux, this is by far the most similar to Notepad++. The other alternatives are similar in the sense that they are code/text editors but not that they look abnd work the same.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    david12345
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    It is the program most like Notepad++ For Linux

    Guest
    Positive
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    A lots of common functions with Notepad++, but slower...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Notepadqq is Free and Open SourceNotepad++ is also Free and Open Source
  2. Lite XL icon
     55 likes

    Lite XL is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

    62 Lite XL alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  3. TextMate icon
     270 likes

    TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

    163 TextMate alternatives

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  4. 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.

    212 Notepad3 alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  5. CudaText icon
     56 likes

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

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    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
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    johnhk
    Positive
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    Very serios contender to npp. Developed by the dude that also gave us SynWrite. Very Cool

    Guest
    Positive
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    Cudatext is great, but it NOT working out of the box is the big letdown. You need to faff first and nobody got time for dat....

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • CudaText is Free and Open SourceNotepad++ is also Free and Open Source
    • CudaText is CustomizableNotepad++ is not according to our users
  6. Notepads icon
     47 likes

    Considering that most text editors are eather too heavy or look too old, the author came up with Notepads, designed to be a modern-looking UWP app.

    25 Notepads alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  7. Athas icon
     16 likes

    Lightweight, open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux featuring Vim keybindings, built-in Git support, agentic AI editing with multiple models, syntax highlighting, LSP for intelligent completion, fast performance, and efficient workflows.

    61 Athas alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  8. Bluefish Editor icon
     162 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    213 Bluefish Editor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
  9. SciTE icon
     150 likes

    SciTE 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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
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    xxavx
    Positive
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    A simpler version of Notepad++. Supports all the jazz you'll need: syntax higlighting, it's clever with Tabs, mass renaminc, etc. No macros though.

    Guest
    Positive
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    A simple and hackable notepad.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • SciTE is Free and Open SourceNotepad++ is also Free and Open Source
  10. Zasper icon
     11 likes

    A powerful IDE for data science, Zasper excels with massive concurrency support, enabling numerous simultaneous connections, minimal memory usage, and speedy performance. Suited for REPL-style data apps like Jupyter notebooks, fully supported on Mac with limited Linux support.

    79 Zasper alternatives

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