Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome


TextPad is described as 'Is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008' and is a popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to TextPad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best TextPad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TextPad are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.


Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.




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.

FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.


NoteTab is a leading text editor, popular Windows Notepad replacement, and powerful code-based HTML editor for Windows.





TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

Caret is a lightweight-but-powerful programmer's editor running as a Chrome Packaged App. Inspired by Sublime and built on top of the Ace editing component, it offers:




Jane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore.


