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.

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Windows

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The Best 84 metapad Alternatives

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Free Open Source Windows

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Multiple languages Tabbed interface Lightweight Support for FTP Autocompletion Macros Feature Side by Side comparison Color coding Support for regular expressions Live Preview Configurable Block edit Code formatting Plugin manager
2244 Like

Evernote

Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet Web Blackberry Windows RT

IFTTT integration Works Offline Automatic attachment management Cloud sync Export to iCalendar Google Drive integration MarkDown support Nested Notebooks Owncloud integration Sync with Owncloud PDF annotation Sync between devices Tag based Text formatting Web clipper
1021 Like

Vim

Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku OpenSolaris

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Lightweight Spell checking Syntax Highlighting Plugin manager Configurability Keyboard focused Modal editor Small size Terminal based Visual Mode Word completion Works on all OSs
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
368 Like

Visual Studio Code

Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE.

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

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Javascript MarkDown support Lightweight Syntax Highlighting Mercurial support Version and Source control Dark theme Plugin support Autocompletion Bugs GIT support Code completion Intellisense Multiple cursors C# Scripting Embedded debugger Built in Terminal Git integration
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
204 Like

Komodo Edit

komodo edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give komodo edit (or its big brother komodo ide) a try: it'll be worth your while.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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
188 Like

GNU nano

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Mac Haiku

Command line interface Search and replace Terminal based Automatic Indentation
151 Like

Notepad

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

Free Windows

Support for Unicode Bundled with Windows
143 Like

UltraEdit

UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux
132 Like

SciTE

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce
106 Like

jEdit

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with a large collection of plugins.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
77 Like

AkelPad

A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.

Free Open Source Windows
61 Like

EmEditor

EmEditor is a fast Unicode text editor for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting large files, scriptable macros, CSV files, keyword highlighting and more.

Commercial Windows

Support for Unicode Import CSV data Windows Explorer integration Support for Large File
54 Like

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
53 Like

TextPad

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

Commercial Windows
43 Like

WordPad

WordPad is a simple word processor that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. It is the successor of Windows 3.1s Write. From Windows 7 Wordpad includes the ribbon user interface.

Commercial Windows
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

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The Best 84 metapad Alternatives

Notepad++

Evernote

Vim

gedit

Geany

Visual Studio Code

Notepad2

Komodo Edit

PSPad

GNU nano

Notepad

UltraEdit

SciTE

jEdit

AkelPad

EmEditor

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TextPad

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