WordPad Alternatives for Linux

Alternatives to WordPad for Linux with any license

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 • 11 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Very much like Microsoft Office and Wordpad combined! Extremely easy to use interface and has no limited features! Best of all FREE! Unlike Micro's BS greed, they want you to pay for a better notepad alternative and there it was just sitting around the corners of the net while many of no-brainers like me had no clue such an amazing thing like Libre exist! Thank you very much Libre! You saved not only our time searching further but also saved our wallets! Guest • Jul 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Using it to write my novels. Paying for Wordpad isn't necessary as long as I have this software. Guest • Apr 2019 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... ReactOS
Export to PDF LibreOffice Integration Writing tool Built-in PDF converter ... Export to Word Export to ePub Export to HTML Hybrid PDF Hyperlinks Live Meeting Portable Presentations as Video Support for Themes Writing tool Add a feature

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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.
- it lacks most of the features a rich text editors has it is not a replacement at all not even for the most basic rich edit features ee multiple styles and fonts. Guest • Feb 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Vim is a text editor, not a word processor. Guest • Sep 2018 • 13 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris
Lightweight Customizable Syntax Highlighting Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Keyboard focused Plugins Well documented Built-in terminal emulation Code syntax highlighting Command line interface Configurable Cross-platform For geek Hackable MarkDown support Terminal-based Vim Batch Editing Command line Configurable Dedication to home row Support for Large File Lightweight Mnemonic key bindings Modal editor Native application Plugin manager Regex substitution Spell checking Vim Buffers Vim folding Visual Mode Word completion Add a feature

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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 Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Customizable Distraction free writing Daily progress tracker Distraction-free UI ... Auto-saving Fullscreen support Multiple languages Distraction-free UI Portable Skin customization Tabbed interface Writing statistics Add a feature

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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
Fractions Functions Export to PDF Spell checking ... Writing tool Add a feature

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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 .
- Smaller footprint, familiar interface, for most general writing, it more than suffices. Guest • Jan 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- 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 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Linux BSD PortableApps.com Haiku GTK+ ... AmigaOS
Lightweight Multiple languages Portable Spell checking Add a feature

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WPS Writer

WPS Writer, part of WPS Office , is dependable and fast word processing software that is highly compatible with Microsoft 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.
- 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
Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad
Cross-platform Compatible with Microsoft Office Spellcheck Built-in PDF converter ... Office-like Tabbed interface Convert Word documents to PDF Add a feature

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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
Dictation Speech to text Notetaking Works Offline ... Portable Speech Recognition Voice Commands Voice Notes Voice recognition WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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Twake

Twake is a real-time teamwork platform. It is a suite of collaborative tools that includes the specificities of some best-sellers (slack, trello, google drive,...). We provide professional messaging, storage space, online collaborative editors (word, excel, powerpoint), task manager, team calendar. All these modules are avaible via a single platform and are therefore easy to set up and use. Twake is available in saas or self hosted

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted
Messaging Real time collaboration Spreadsheets Task Management ... Team Collaboration Add a feature

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Notepas

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. Exclusive features: - Alpha blended coloring supporting multiple layers of transparency for both text and background. - Code filter: a tool to filter lines that match a given search string or regular expression. - Code shaper: a set of tools to apply advanced formatting rules to a text selection.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
GPLv3 IDE Portable Search and replace ... Syntax Highlighting Support for Unicode Add a feature

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ConstEdit

ConstEdit is a word processor that writes documents in the html format. It is a Google Chrome web browser extension. It is not a cloud app and is not an online html editor. It runs within Google Chrome locally on your device for better performance, convenience and security, while providing more functionality. Interoperability. ConstEdit writes documents in the standard internet webpage format (html/htm file extension).

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Speech Recognition Voice input Speech to text Automatic content formatting ... Document structure management Html as document format Export to PDF Writing tool Add a feature

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