TwistPad Alternatives

TwistPad is described as 'Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers' and is a Text Editor in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to TwistPad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best TwistPad alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TwistPad are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Vim and Geany.

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Twistpad is a fully featured text and code editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or a featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.

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TwistPad alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
  1. SlickEdit icon
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    SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

    95 SlickEdit alternatives
    SlickEdit screenshot 1

    License model

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    SlickEdit iconTwistPad Icon

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  2. TextEdit icon
     30 likes

    When you need to create text documents, TextEdit is a highly versatile word processor, including tools to format and layout your page, edit and stylize text, check spelling, create tables and lists, import graphics, work with HTML, and even add music and movie files.

    101 TextEdit alternatives
    TextEdit main interface (Updated) (Noticed I used the same text thing as the other one?)

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    TextEdit Features

    1.  Rich text editing
    2.  Graphical User Interface
    3.  Plain text file
    TextEdit iconTwistPad Icon

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  3. XML Notepad icon
     18 likes

    XML Notepad provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.

    50 XML Notepad alternatives
    XML Notepad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    XML Notepad Features

    1.  Hierarchical Structure
    XML Notepad iconTwistPad Icon

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  4. Devpad icon
     7 likes

    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

    171 Devpad alternatives
    Devpad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Devpad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    Devpad iconTwistPad Icon

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  5. Jane icon
     8 likes

    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.

    110 Jane alternatives
    Main Window
    Jane screenshot 2

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Jane Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Drag and Drop
    3.  Shell integration
    Jane iconTwistPad Icon

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  6. Diakonos icon
     4 likes

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

    151 Diakonos alternatives
    Diakonos screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Diakonos Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Console-based
    Diakonos iconTwistPad Icon

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  7.  2 likes

    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...

    155 Vis alternatives
    Vis screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Vis Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for regular expressions
    3.  Modal editor
    TwistPad Icon

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  8. BowPad icon
     10 likes

    BowPad is a small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.

    105 BowPad alternatives
    BowPad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    BowPad Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Ribbon Interface
    BowPad iconTwistPad Icon

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  9. Thunderpad icon
     10 likes

    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.

    117 Thunderpad alternatives
    Thunderpad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Distraction-free
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

    Thunderpad iconTwistPad Icon

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  10. Notepas icon
     9 likes

    Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.

    115 Notepas alternatives
    Notepas screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Notepas Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for Unicode
    5.  GPLv3
    Discontinued

    Cannot run on macOS Monterey and the last update is from 2016.

    Notepas iconTwistPad Icon

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  11. Vy icon
     2 likes

    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.

    171 Vy alternatives
    Vy screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Last update and release on Nov 2020.

    Vy iconTwistPad Icon

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  12. Hekapad icon
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    Hekapad is a free fully featured lightweight text editor for Windows. It can be used to replace the classic Notepad with some cool features.

    67 Hekapad alternatives
    Hekapad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Multiple languages
    2.  Tabbed interface
    Hekapad iconTwistPad Icon

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