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. XMLFox icon
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    XMLFox XML/XSD editor is the Windows based graphical tool for authoring, updating, exploring, well-formedness checking or validating XML documents. XMLFox is a graphical XML editing and validation tool for creating valid, well-formed XML documents and/or XSD Schema.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. Notemac++ icon
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    Notemac++ brings the familiar Notepad++ experience to Mac users with syntax highlighting for 70+ languages, tabbed editing, split views, built-in Git integration, an AI coding assistant, an integrated terminal, macro recording, bookmarks, and powerful regex find/replace.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Online
     
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    ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.

    49 ad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Mesh Editor is a lightweight code editor. It is user-friendly and can be used on the go since it is really lightweight. It supports multiple programming languages with syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. EdytorNC icon
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    EdytorNC is text editor for CNC programmers. Some features : bolt holes calculation; solutions of triangles calculation; speed, feed calculation; conversion inch/mm, mm/inch; code colouring; RS232 data transmission with automatic file saving and possibility to download new CNC...

    171 EdytorNC alternatives

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. This HTML editor is a just a simple program, but with powerful features. It's based off of Apache NetBeans and it's UI. With support for CSS, HTML1-5, and XML it is very useful and plans are made to include server-side support and well as a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    • NetBeans
     
  7. A lightweight, minimal and powerful code editor. This editor has many features. Some of them are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Simple CSS icon
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    Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.

    42 Simple CSS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. Greg Solutions is a trusted provider of DevOps and Blockchain development services. We excel at cost-efficient infrastructure design and custom blockchain development. We are a close-knit team of fearless DevOps and Blockchain practitioners, handling projects of any complexity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  10. Leafier icon
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    A simple, lightweight and easy to use HTML editor worth having when you need to view and edit what document you want, as well as insert new HTML and CSS tags.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. HAPedit icon
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    HAPedit is an acronym for Html Asp Php editor; a win32 text-mode editor useful for all developers of dynamic web pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Batch-Notepad that can replace, insert, delete, copy, and move text in multiple files in bulk! Perform advanced search and replace operations using RegEx substitutions. Supports multi-line replace, wildcards, match selection, case matching, Unicode!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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