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. Notepad! is the free, powerful, feature-rich replacement for your Windows Notepad. This software is completely free to use, for both personal and business purposes. With multi-document editing, split editing (two views of the same document, side by side, with synchronized...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Editing of XML direct and easy, with many helpful features. The XML data is presented in an clearly and easy to handle way.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. ExamXML icon
     1 like

    ExamXML displays XML documents in a tree view, highlighting differences down to the level of elements, words or attributes, so that you can view exactly which attributes and elements have been added, modified or deleted.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. ne icon
     5 likes

    ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.

    42 ne alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. NotepadX icon
     3 likes

    NotepadX is a simple text editor. With NotepadX you're be able to create standard text files, open text files and edit them. The finished file can be sent directly from the app via E-Mail, stored locally or uploaded online to OneDrive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. NoobNote icon
     1 like

    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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Mystix icon
     3 likes

    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
     
  9. ptext icon
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    A nano like text editor built with pure C.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. 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...

    3 GCodeWorkShop alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Blinky icon
     3 likes

    A retro-inspired text editor for Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. The uncompromising Python code formatter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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