Free TextPad Alternatives
TextPad is described as 'is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements'. There are more than 100 alternatives to TextPad for various platforms. The best alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like TextPad are Notepad++ (Free, Open Source), Atom (Free, Open Source), Vim (Free, Open Source) and Geany (Free, Open Source).
- VS Code is more than just a code editor, it provides the tools and extensions to compile, debug, compare, refactor, and even manage code repositories all within a... View 170 alternatives to Visual Studio Code
- Free
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. View 197 alternatives to Notepad++
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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- Extensible, cross-platform text editor with a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes. View 185 alternatives to Atom
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim. View 176 alternatives to Vim
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- OpenSolaris
- MorphOS
No macro support, No custom snippet support. - Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. View 120 alternatives to Geany
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Xfce
- Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. View 98 alternatives to Brackets
Discontinued
The last version 1.14.2 has no .deb version for Linux, and seems to crash on Mac when launching. More generally, the development of the project seems to be paused or stopped.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Binary releases of Visual Studio Code without Microsoft branding, telemetry and licensing. View 164 alternatives to VSCodium
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
- Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins. View 156 alternatives to gedit
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
- BSD
- GNOME
- OpenSolaris
- GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. View 119 alternatives to GNU nano
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI... View 118 alternatives to Kate