Notepads
Considering that most text editors are eather too heavy or look too old, the author came up with Notepads, designed to be a modern-looking UWP app.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Distraction-free
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
- Tabbed interface
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Automatic Backup
- Multiple languages
- Works Offline
- Support for MarkDown
- Spell Checking
- Full-Text Search
- No registration required
- Themes
Tags
- notepad
- Markdown Editor
- html-editor
Notepads News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- sebastian_skinnari liked Notepads
onlinenotepad added Notepads as alternative to Online Notepad- ElTipoG0 reviewed Notepads
the best AlternativeTo (jeje joke) Windows notepad! 🌟🌟🌟 with some limitation i have to say, but it still in delopement! ^^ i hope this get updated soon. (12/7/2025)
- ElTipoG0 liked Notepads
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What is Notepads?
Considering that most text editors are eather too heavy or look too old, the author came up with Notepads, designed to be a modern-looking UWP app.
Notepads features :
- Fluent design with built-in Tab system.
- Blazingly fast, feels like win32 notepad.exe but looks better.
- Launch from command line or PowerShell by typing: "notepads" or "notepads %path-to-your-file%".
- Multi-line handwriting support.
- Built-in Markdown file live preview.
- Built-in diff viewer (Preview your changes).
Notepads is still under developpment and is currently accessible through a beta version.
Notepads information
Developed by
Jackie LiuLicensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
24 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Development, Backup & Sync, Office & ProductivityGitHub repository
- 9,730 Stars
- 521 Forks
- 431 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
auto save feature and multiple tabs
the best AlternativeTo (jeje joke) Windows notepad! 🌟🌟🌟 with some limitation i have to say, but it still in delopement! ^^ i hope this get updated soon. (12/7/2025)
This is what I wanted as an alternative to Notepad. It's NOT suitable as a programming environment; you'd be better off with Geany or something. But that's not always what I need, sometimes I just want something FOR MAKING NOTES, and Notepads is exactly the iteration on Notepad that I was looking for for that use case.
good and easy app, but no win32 exe version, also no portable version and it's limited in customization area
Best notepad, it does everything that does the default Notepad but better and the interface looks similar but better. And last but not least i love the backup feature.
It's free, open-source, fast, small (9 MB), and good-looking. It has all the basic features. I wouldn't use it for Markdown, though.
From its github page: