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

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The Best 84 metapad Alternatives

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EditPad Lite

EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small & compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.

Free Personal Windows

Minimalistic Portable Multiple languages Support for Large File
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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
33 Like

BBEdit

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

Commercial Mac OS X
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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
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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
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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
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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
21 Like

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
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
19 Like

CotEditor

Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

Free Open Source Mac OS X

File Versioning Colored Text macOS like
19 Like

NoteTab

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

Freemium Windows
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
13 Like

Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

MarkDown support Encrypted Notes End to end encryption Sync with Onedrive
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
3 Like

Angel Writer

Angel Writer is a free text editor allowing you to create impressive documents that contain formatted text, graphics and tables. You can learn how to work with Angel...

Free Windows
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
0 Like

Notejoy

Notejoy is a real-time document collaboration tool that brings a beautiful editor together with intuitive organization and powerful search.

Freemium

Slack integration Team Collaboration
0 Like

QuasiMemo

QuasiMemo is a combination virtual clipboard and notepad / scratchpad for taking quick notes or memos.

Free Web
0 Like

Synology Note Station

Note Station allows your precious ideas to be synced from your own Synology NAS server device to all your computers and mobile devices with maximum privacy and security.

Free Self-Hosted

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Alternatives in metapad for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Total Commander, Node.JS, Android, iPhone, Web, Self-Hosted. This list contains a total of 84 applications similar to metapad.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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The Best 84 metapad Alternatives

EditPad Lite

ReText

BBEdit

Intype

TextEdit

SynWrite

RJ TextEd

Editra

slap

CotEditor

NoteTab

Scratch

Joplin

TwistPad

Angel Writer

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