Windows Notepad Alternatives

Windows Notepad is described as 'Fast, lightweight editor bundled with Windows since 1985. Supports plain text, UTF-8, Linux newline, over 100 languages, with improved features' and is a very popular Text Editor in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Windows Notepad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Windows Notepad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Notepad are Sublime Text, Vim, Kate and gedit.

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Windows Notepad alternatives are mainly Text Editors, but if you're looking for Code Editors or IDEs you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Windows + Free, Text Editors, Windows, Linux and Windows + Lightweight. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Windows Notepad.
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  1. TEA icon
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    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. GetDiz icon
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    GetDiz is a fully featured text editor which can replace Notepad while maintaining an incredible speed, ease of use and small size. You can display and edit any text files with GetDiz. Additionally it offers enhanced functionality with DIZ and NFO files, which are often included...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. MetroTextual icon
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    MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant improvements to performance and aesthetics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. WriterClassic icon
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    Free open-source text editor providing multi-language support, customizable themes including user-created options, plugin integration, Python-based core, quick document signing, and compatibility with any plain text file while maintaining a lightweight, intuitive experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. TeraPad icon
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    TeraPad is very light-weight text editor which supports styling for css html js and other major languages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    DevTEd Lite is a free source code editor that supports several languages. System requirements: MS WIndows 10 or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Skylark Edit is written in C, a high performance text/hex editor. Embedded Database-client/Redis-client/Lua-engine. You can run Lua scripts and SQL files directly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. KWrite icon
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    KWrite is a text editor by KDE, based on the Kate's editor component.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  9. Notepas icon
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    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. MarkMyWords icon
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    MarkMyWords is the ideal markup-writing tool for authors. By using Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Textile, Wikitext, HTML or BBCode MarkMyWords makes writing articles for the web a breeze and remains platform-independent by using plain text documents.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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
     
  12. ATPad icon
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    ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement written in pure C and Windows API. Keeping simplicity of Notepad it provides many additional features. 90kb UPX repacked.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • The Portable Freeware Collection
     
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