Notepad3 Alternatives

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.

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  1. Textadept icon
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    Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Written in a combination of C and Lua and relentlessly optimized for speed and minimalism over the years, Textadept is an ideal editor for programmers who want endless...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Text Editor Pro icon
     10 likes

    Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories and search results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Kakoune icon
     20 likes

    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    85 Kakoune alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
     
  4. Notepad 4 icon
     4 likes

    A lightweight Scintilla based text editor with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with file browser plugin matepath.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. EditPlus icon
     30 likes

    EditPlus is a text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

    64 EditPlus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Xed Editor icon
     4 likes

    Xed Editor is a versatile text and code editor designed specifically for Android devices, offering users the ability to create, edit, and manage their text and code files with ease on their mobile devices.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  7. jEdit icon
     115 likes

    jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use AND it is released as free software with full source code...

    137 jEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. GNOME Builder icon
     21 likes

    Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any developer will appreciate, like syntax highlighting and snippets.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Flatpak
     
  9. SynWrite icon
     31 likes

    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander
     
  10. Mousepad icon
     35 likes

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    78 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
     
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