The Best 127 Notepad Alternatives

  • Smultron icon

    Smultron

    Smultron is a text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Leafpad icon

    Leafpad

    Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD MacPorts Cygwin

    Lightweight Drag n drop
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    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 icon

    TextPad

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

    Commercial Windows

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    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 icon

    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 icon

    BBEdit

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

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Intype icon

    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 icon

    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

  • Editra icon

    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

  • wxMEdit icon

    wxMEdit

    wxmedit is a cross-platform text and hex editor, derived from madedit .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Mousepad icon

    Mousepad

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce

    Tabbed interface Lightweight Drag n drop
  • NoteTab icon

    NoteTab

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

    Freemium Windows