BowPad

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

Free
Open Source
Windows

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

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Ribbon Interface Syntax Highlighting

The Best 30 BowPad Alternatives

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Lightweight Auto saving Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting Minimap Optimized for fast boot Autocompletion Plugin API Code completion Automatic packaging Memory footprint Multiple cursors Package Control Plugins Feature Scriptwriting Assistant
834 Like

Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Distraction free UI Interior Design Syntax Highlighting Community based Minimap Modular System Autocompletion GitHub integration Plugin API GIT support Code completion Gitlab integration Multiple cursors Package Control Plugins Feature Fuzzy Finder Hackable Integrated Development Environment Support for Multiple programming languages Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Unit Testing
614 Like

gedit

Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD GNOME OpenSolaris

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion
438 Like

Geany

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Xfce

Customizable Minimalistic Portable Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Support for Large File Code navigation
280 Like

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.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Lightweight Syntax Highlighting Small size
190 Like

PSPad

PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on.

Free Windows

Portable Lightweight Syntax Highlighting
172 Like

Kate

Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE

Tabbed interface Syntax Highlighting Support for regular expressions Code formatting
38 Like

Notepad2-mod

A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Bookmarks Feature
27 Like

SynWrite

SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

Free Open Source Windows Total Commander

Portable Syntax Highlighting
27 Like

RJ TextEd

RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding.

Free Windows

Portable Syntax Highlighting
26 Like

Textadept

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and ridiculously extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Syntax Highlighting Command line interface
25 Like

Caret

professional text editing for chrome and chrome os. caret is a graphical text editor modeled on http://alternativein .

Free Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Syntax Highlighting Code completion
19 Like

slap

slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Node.JS

Portable Syntax Highlighting Command line interface
16 Like

Scratch

Scratch is the text editor that works for you. It auto-saves your files, meaning they're always up-to-date. Plus it remembers your tabs so you never lose your spot, even in between sessions. Make it yours.

Free Open Source Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Tabbed interface Lightweight Scripting Syntax Highlighting
14 Like

Zed Code Editor

Zed is a fully offline-capable text and code editor you can use to edit files locally, on Dropbox, or remotely on any server.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Dropbox integration Syntax Highlighting Code completion
11 Like

Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large...

Free Open Source Haiku

Support for FTP Syntax Highlighting Search and replace
9 Like

Text Editor Pro

Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editing tool that comes with syntax highlighting, support for over 50 languages and scripts, 22 different styles, a handy file comparison feature and support for multiple directories...

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Syntax Highlighting
8 Like

TwistPad

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.

Commercial Windows

Portable Tabbed interface Support for Unicode Syntax Highlighting Search and replace
7 Like

Ynote Classic

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...

Free Open Source Windows

Syntax Highlighting Autocompletion Support for Large File Automatic Indentation
2 Like

FavoText

FavoText is a text editor, which supports editing file with text/hex format, syntax highlighting and auto completion; it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.

Commercial Windows

Syntax Highlighting Support for SFTP Web log analysis

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The Best 30 BowPad Alternatives

Sublime Text

Atom

gedit

Geany

Notepad2

PSPad

Kate

Notepad2-mod

SynWrite

RJ TextEd

Textadept

Caret

slap

Scratch

Zed Code Editor

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Text Editor Pro

TwistPad

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