

One of the most popular alternatives to Notepad++ is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other popular alternatives are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Zed. Text Editors like Notepad++ are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.


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...

Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.








The HTMEditor is an online, free and easy to use HTML editor, with WYSIWYG and bootstrap support.




Hekapad is a free fully featured lightweight text editor for Windows. It can be used to replace the classic Notepad with some cool features.



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



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




Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.




People joke about what IDE they use often, things like Word, MS Notepad, sometimes even Eclipse, and then often times MS Paint. People joke about MS Paint because it's not even a text editor, people joke about it because it doesn't have one feature in common with IDEs.



