The Best 171 Notepad3 Alternatives

  • UltraEdit icon

    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

  • SciTE icon

    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

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    Bluefish Editor

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • jEdit icon

    jEdit

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Light Table

    Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games.

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

  • 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

  • Anjuta

    Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

  • 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

  • Neovim

    Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to: Simplify maintenance and encourage contributions. Split the work between multiple developers.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android BSD

  • BBEdit

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

    Commercial Mac OS X