Programmer's Notepad Alternatives

Programmer's Notepad has been discontinued. Similar apps include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are VSCodium, Vim, Eclipse and Geany. There's no shortage of Text Editors like Programmer's Notepad, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPad.

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  1. Qt Creator icon
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    Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) built for the maximum developer experience. Qt Creator runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop operating systems and allows developers to create software across desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms.

    132 Qt Creator alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. CotEditor icon
     48 likes

    Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

    182 CotEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. UltraEdit icon
     163 likes

    UltraEdit is a commercially maintained editor built for critical work where performance, reliability, and security matter most.

    234 UltraEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Bluefish Editor icon
     164 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    232 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  5. Nextpad++ icon
     17 likes

    Fully native code editor for macOS with syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, plugin system, advanced search, split view, macro recording, and a Scintilla-powered engine. Free, open source, universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, with native integration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. Spyder icon
     73 likes

    Combines advanced editing, analysis, debugging, and profiling functionalities with data exploration, execution, and visualization capabilities. Expandable using its powerful plugin system and API, providing flexibility for custom integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • Flatpak
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  7. Aptana Studio icon
     332 likes

    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. PSPad icon
     203 likes

    PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development, internal web browser with APACHE support.

    189 PSPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. SciTE icon
     149 likes

    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    179 SciTE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  10. EmEditor icon
     78 likes

    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.

    135 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Notepad Next icon
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    A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Releases are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  12. Nova icon
     8 likes

    The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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