TextPad Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Caret-T

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   Fork of Caret Editor that has full Tern integration (Intellisense for Javascript)

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Platforms

   • Chrome OS
   • Google Chrome

   

   

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   Howl

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   Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It is built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It has a minimalistic UI driven mainly by the keyboard.

   144 Howl alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Code Editor
   • Text Editor

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   Lines code editor

    4 likes

   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.

   176 Lines code editor alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   VbsEdit

    3 likes

   VbsEdit, the award-winning VBScript editor that dramatically reduces the time you spend writing .VBS scripts

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

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   FoldingText

    8 likes

   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.

   118 FoldingText alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • Text Editor
   • Code Editor

   Platforms

   • Mac

   

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   Diakonos

    3 likes

   Diakonos is a powerful and easy to use console-based text editor.

   144 Diakonos alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Text Editor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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    ptext

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    A nano like text editor built with pure C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    Ynote Classic

     8 likes

    Ynote Classic is an easy to use fast and advanced text editor with a tabbed interface and multiview. It has intelligent Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding , Auto Indent and autocompletion. It can highlight any language you like using Regular Expressions.

    157 Ynote Classic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Code Editor
    • Text Editor

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

    

    

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    Textosaurus

     3 likes

    Simple cross-platform text editor based on Qt and Scintilla.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Text Editor
    • Code Editor

    Origin

    • Czechia
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Czechia
    • EU

    

    

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    NoteTab

     20 likes

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

    142 NoteTab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Origin

    • Switzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Switzerland

    

    

    

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    TEA

     7 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Text Editor
    • IDE

    Origin

    • Russia

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Russia

    

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    Vis

     1 like

    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Text Editor

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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