Notepad++ Alternatives

Notepad++ is described as 'Free open-source code editor and Notepad replacement supporting multiple languages, featuring high speed, low resource usage, privacy focus, and plugin extensibility' and is a leading Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Notepad++ for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Notepad++ alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. Other great apps like Notepad++ are Visual Studio Code, Geany, Kate and Vim.

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  1. NoobNote icon
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    There are many alternatives to Microsoft Notepad and the best one out there in my opinion is Notepad++, but there are no alternatives to Notepad which actually look and feel like it. NoobNote aims to replace that.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  2. Caret-T icon
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    Fork of Caret Editor that has full Tern integration (Intellisense for Javascript)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
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    GCodeWorkShop is a multi-functional software for processing programs for CNC machines. The basis of the software is an advanced text editor for editing G-codes. In addition to the usual things like syntax highlighting, this editor can do block renumbering, insertion/deletion of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Mystix icon
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    Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ptext icon
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    A nano like text editor built with pure C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    The "Text File Editor" is an editor for text-based files, such as text files or scripts. It contains many useful functions for text editing, like word counting, removing blank lines and multiple spaces or sorting list alphabetically.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Blinky icon
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    A retro-inspired text editor for Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    The uncompromising Python code formatter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Alternate TextBrowser allows a fast navigation through text-files. The program offers the possibility to open multiple text-files at once.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Adventure is a lightweight and flexible, general-purpose IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and advanced text editor. Formerly known as AutoGUI, a GUI designer for AutoHotkey scripts, the project evolved towards the goal of achieving the status of a complete IDE...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Features of Simple Code Editor include: Theming, Emmet support, a minimalist interface, syntax highlighting, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. TextMorph icon
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    TextMorph is a FREE powerful ASCII text formatter. It is also a text editor, similar to Notepad. There are lots of text editing programs around, but TextMorph has a number of things that set it apart. TextMorph has a number of "tools" that you can apply to the text...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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