Programmer's Notepad Alternatives

Programmer's Notepad is described as 'Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes' and is a popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Programmer's Notepad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Programmer's Notepad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Programmer's Notepad are VSCodium, Vim, Eclipse and Geany.

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  1. Ki Editor icon

    Ki Editor

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    Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
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    Thunderpad

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Moped

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    If you come from the Windows world, you may be missing a small utility: Notepad, a simple but essential tool for editing plain text files. While macOS counts on its own built-in text editor: TextEdit, it is actually more like a Rich Text Editor with full images, fonts and layout...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    JOE

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. medit icon

    medit

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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    Mystix

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    Mystix is a text editor with customizable syntax highlighting, customizable code folding and other text editing features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Acme

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    Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  13. Vy icon

    Vy

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    vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  14. Editor icon

    Editor

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    Simple Android text editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    • Editor is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Programmer's Notepad.

    • Editor is Free and Open SourceProgrammer's Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • Editor is LightweightProgrammer's Notepad is not according to our users
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    ConTEXT

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    ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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