TotalEdit is a powerful notepad replacement and text editor. Packed full of features to help everyone from office workers, journalists through to programmers and web site editors.

Notepad2 is described as 'Fast and light-weight Windows Notepad like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's' and is a very popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Notepad2 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Notepad2 alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Notepad2 are Sublime Text, Kate, Geany and gedit.
TotalEdit is a powerful notepad replacement and text editor. Packed full of features to help everyone from office workers, journalists through to programmers and web site editors.

A lightweight, distraction-free notepad with instant access, no registration or ads, auto-saves notes locally, supports manual export, and works seamlessly on modern browsers and mobile devices while prioritizing privacy with a clean interface and dark mode.


ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.
MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.


FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.




LopeEdit is a powerful programmers editor and a replacement of Windows Notepad. It has tabs to select between open files, supports syntax highlighting of multiple programing languages (C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, XML, HTML, ASP, JSP, SQL, Cobol, C#, CSS...



Virtual scrapbook for Desktop with a plain text editor. With Quicknote, in its resizable window you can jot down your notes and organize them in categories. Beneath the normal text functions, it can let you directly access frequently run programs, manage windows tasks, and even...




JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). JOE has been around since 1988 and comes standard with many Linux distributions.


Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

Judge0 IDE is the most popular SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Notepad2.
medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.
Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.


Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.



