WordPad Alternatives and Similar Software

LibreOffice - Writer

Writer has all the features you need from a modern, full-featured word processing or desktop publishing tool. It's simple enough for a quick memo, but powerful enough to create complete books with contents, diagrams, indexes, etc. You're free to concentrate on your message, while Writer will make it look great.

• Wordpad is too simple compared to Wordpad. I'm looking for a super lightweight word processor like Wordpad for Linux so I can quickly write simple RTF documents when I don't need the features of LibreOffice. LibreOffice has more features but isn't as lightweight and fast. Guest • Sep 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Using it to write my novels. Paying for Wordpad isn't necessary as long as I have this software. Guest • Apr 2019 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... ReactOS

Vim

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. Vim offers several “modes” for editing with efficiency. This makes vim a non-user-friendly application but it is also a strength. The normal mode binds alphanumeric keys to task-oriented commands. The visual mode highlights text. The command-line mode offers more tools (for search&replace, defining functions, etc.

• Vim is a text editor, not a word processor. Guest • Sep 2018 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris

Google Docs

Google Docs is an online word processor, part of Google Drive , that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs: • Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document. • Add flair and formatting to your documents by adjusting margins, spacing, fonts, and colors — all that fun stuff. • Invite other people to collaborate on a document with you, giving them edit, comment or view access.

Free Web Android iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet ... iPad

Microsoft Office Word

Microsoft Word, part of the Microsoft Office Suite but also sold as a standalone application, is Microsoft's word processor. Its proprietary (but open-specification) DOC format is considered a de-facto standard, although from 2007 and above, Word uses DOCX. Other features include SmartArt, PDF support, and feature searching (as of Word 2016). Word Online, part of https://alternativeto .

• Wordpad comes with Windows, but Word is commercial and has more features than Wordpad. Word may have more features, but is slower, while Wordpad is super lightweight and simple. I'm looking for a lightweight and fast word processor for Linux so I can write quick RTF documents when I don't need the advanced features of a full-fledged word processor, like Wordpad for Windows. Guest • Sep 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Not lightweight, costs a decent amount of money. In short, not suitable if you only need something comparable to MS Wordpad. Guest • Oct 2018 Disagree   Agree

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Windows S ... Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad

Notion

With so many tools, it's hard to keep everyone on the same page. Notion is a new tool that unifies them all. It's like Google Docs, but everything is organized and discoverable by your team. Real collaboration in real-time. Tired of your clunky wiki? With Notion, adding all types of content is as easy as drag & drop. Drag. Drop. Work as fluidly as you think. Love using Trello? Notion brings the same visual organization to every page.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad Software as a Service (SaaS)

FocusWriter

FocusWriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as possible in your work. The program autosaves your progress, and reloads the last files you had open to make it easy to jump back in during your next writing session, and has many other features that make it such that only one thing matters: your writing.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com

AbiWord

AbiWord is a free software word processor. The name "AbiWord" (pronounced "Abby Word") is derived from the root of the Spanish word "abierto", meaning "open". It runs on Linux, Mac OS X (PowerPC), ReactOS, BeOS (unsupported), AmigaOS 4.0 (through its Cygnix X11 engine), and other operating systems. Multilingual Portable version (15MB installed) from http://portableapps.com/apps/office/abiword_portable .

• Its more powerful and can be customized for default fonts. Better version of WordPad. I have been using it for everything great program. Guest • Sep 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Smaller footprint, familiar interface, for most general writing, it more than suffices. Guest • Jan 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Linux BSD PortableApps.com Haiku GTK+ ... AmigaOS

Scrivener

Typewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop. Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux iPhone iPad

Apache OpenOffice Writer

Writer, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is an open-source word processor. It supports the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office 97-2003 formats, Microsoft Office 2007 format (ability to "open" documents in version 3), among others.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

Notepad2

Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

Notepad

Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.

Free Windows

Notepad2-mod

Changes compared to the official Notepad2 Code folding Support for bookmarks Option to mark all occurrences of a word Word auto-completion Syntax highlighting support for AutoHotkey, AutoIt3, AviSynth, Bash, CMake, Inno Setup, LaTeX, Lua, Markdown, NSIS, Ruby, Tcl and YAML scripts Improved support for NFO ANSI art Support for replacing Windows Notepad using a clean, unintrusive registry-based method Other various minor changes and tweaks

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com

WPS Writer

WPS Writer, part of WPS Office , is dependable and fast word processing software that is highly compatible with Microsoft Office Word , and can read and edit DOC and DOCX formats. This allows you to freely transfer your office documents between Microsoft Word and WPS Writer. The version 2013 is available for free with the name Kingsoft Writer Free 2013.

• Modern Microsoft Word Look-Alike that opens MUCH faster than Word! Has EVERYTHING you need. Not as bloated as Libre. Stable, Familiar UI, and most importantly....FREE! Guest • Apr 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium Windows Linux

Airborn

Create and edit documents online without sacrificing your privacy.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Web

metapad

Metapad is a small, fast (and completely free) text editor for Windows 9x/NT/XP/Vista with similar features to Microsoft Notepad but with many extra (and rather useful) features. It was designed to completely replace Notepad since it includes all of Notepads features and much, much more. metapad's enhanced feature set includes: * Persistent window placement * Dirty file notification * Intelligent Find and Replace * External viewer support (e.g.

Free Open Source Windows

Atlantis Word Processor

Atlantis is an innovative, no-nonsense word processor carefully designed with the end-user in mind. Compact, fast-loading, but still powerful and efficient, Atlantis will be the perfect companion for a wide range of your word processing tasks, – from simple to most complex. A basic version of Atlantis Word Processor, called Atlantis Nova, is available for free download.

Freemium Windows

Word Online

Word Online, part of Office Online, is the online version of Microsoft Office Word. Create, edit and share. Work with other at the same time.

Free Personal Web Chrome OS

Q10

Q10 is a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind. Q10 is freeware. That's right, you can download and use it at no cost. Q10 is small, fast and keeps out of your way. Press F1 inside Q10 to read the help card. Q10 will clean your kitchen, walk your dog and make excellent coffee. Well, not really. But its really good as a full-screen text editor.

• Discontinued Last version dates from 2011.

Free Windows

Fidus Writer

Fidus Writer is an online collaborative LaTeX editor especially made for academics who need to use citations and/or formulas. The editor focuses on the content rather than the layout, so that with the same text, you can later on publish it in multiple ways: On a website, as a printed book, or as an ebook. In each case, you can choose from a number of layouts that are adequate for the medium of choice.

Free Open Source Web

Indigrid

A new medium for your ideas—augment your thinking with a text editor designed for structuring lists. Side-by-side views allow 3 modes of thinking. Indigrid lets you list and group pieces of text in a hierarchical tree structure: so that you can organize big networks of ideas and navigate them—because the emphasis is on manipulating the ideas, instead of designing a document. It is like a text editor for mind mapping, with more emphasis on text editing and no graphics.

Free Windows

TextEdit

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. Here are some of the things you can do in TextEdit.

Free Mac

iText

iText is an intuitive and refined text editor with word processing completely rewritten in Cocoa (so works with Afloat), and is suitable for both Power PC and Intel Macs. iText provides the simplest way to make gorgeous manuscripts on your Mac! iText has the TextEdit basics and just a few more important features - page numbers, columns, header/footer, footnotes - for manuscript writing. And a bookmark feature for effortless, lightning-quick navigation of your manuscript.

Freemium Mac Windows iPhone iPad

Jarte

The Jarte word processor uses Microsofts reliable, fast starting WordPad word processing engine while adding many features missing in WordPad. Jarte can save files as .doc, .rtf, or .txt. It has all the features that most students or writers need with none of the bloat. It can do headers, footers, and has spell check as well as a word count function. It also uses tabs for quick access to multiple files. It is also portable.

• It is small, fast, efficient text editor. Many of the other results here are not. It is built on WordPad's "engline". Guest • Dec 2018 Disagree   Agree

Freemium Windows PortableApps.com

AbleWord

AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write most popular document formats including PDF's. It is fully featured, supporting image formatting, tables, headers & footers and includes spell checking and print preview functions. Best of all it is totally free even for commercial use. AbleWord can read and write the following file types: Microsoft Word (doc, docx) Adobe PDF (pdf) Rich Text (rtf) Plain Text (txt) HTML (html, htm)

Free Windows

Dictanote

Switch effortlessly between using the keyboard and your voice to type out notes. Work smarter and more productively with fast, accurate dictation and transcription using Dictanote. Dictanote supports over 40 different languages and 52 different dialects spoken which covers over 80% of the world's population! You can also purchase in-app Pro upgrade which lets you create multiple notes and save them on Dictanote cloud.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS ... Chrome