GNOME Text Editor is a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- GNOME
- Flatpak



Notepad3 is described as 'Fast and light-weight text editor with syntax highlighting for programming jobs. Auto-completion, Multi-language, Dark mode more' and is a popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Notepad3 for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Notepad3 alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Notepad3 are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Eclipse.
GNOME Text Editor is a simple text editor focused on a pleasing default experience.



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.




The "Text File Editor" is an editor for text-based files, such as text files or scripts. It contains many useful functions for text editing, like word counting, removing blank lines and multiple spaces or sorting list alphabetically.







Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.




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.

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.

VbsEdit, the award-winning VBScript editor that dramatically reduces the time you spend writing .VBS scripts


xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.




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


