The Best 99 BowPad Alternatives

  • programmers notepad

    Notepad more focused on developing than just scribble down notes. These is not an exhaustive feature list, but gives you some idea of the features present in Programmer’s Notepad.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • TextPad

    TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements.

    Commercial Windows

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • ReText

    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • BBEdit

    BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Intype

    Intype is a powerful and intuitive code editor for Windows with lightning fast response. It is easily extensible and customizable, thanks in part to its support for scripting and native plug-ins.

    Commercial 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...

    Free Mac OS X

  • Notepadqq

    Notepadqq is a linux clone (identical application) of Notepad++

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Editra

    Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • HTML-Kit

    HTML Kit is a full-featured free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and other text files. 400+ plugins are available for it, including HTML Tidy for creating standards-compliant web pages.

    Commercial Windows

  • NoteTab

    NoteTab is packed with time-saving productivity tools that no other text or HTML editor has.

    Freemium Windows

  • medit

    medit is a programming and around-programming text editor. Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Xfce