The Best 172 Notepad++ Alternatives

  • Enki

    Enki is a text editor for programmers. It is: –User friendly. Intuitive interface. Works out of the box. You don’t have to read a lot of docs -Hacker friendly. Code as...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Vico

    Vico is a programmers text editor for Mac OS X. Some of the features are: strong focus on keyboard control (vi key bindings), integrated SFTP, compatible with textmate...

    Freemium Mac OS X

  • aubreys gvim

    Aubrey’s gVim is, well, Aubrey's gVim! The project arose out the his personal desire to use Vim as my HTML, CSS, PHP & Javascript editor. It’s an installable...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • SlickEdit

    SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Keypress Editor

    This is the editor you were looking for. Keypress is an offline, desktop based code editor. Use Keypress to edit your local files, on any platform. Keypress features...

    Free Chrome OS Chrome

  • Kaxaml

    Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a "split view" so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • gEcrit

    gEcrit is a Python IDE. Its focus is on simplicity and ease of use. It is fast and lightweight. It features Python indentation, line numbers, code folding, syntax...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Macchiato

    Macchiato is a simple plain text editor with a twist. Modeled after TextEdit's plain text mode, the editor is a chrome-less blank canvas. However, it is built from...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Devpad

    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • CudaText

    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus. Features include: Syntax highlight for many languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, JavaScript, HTML, CSS...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Zeus IDE

    A powerful, feature packed, fully configurable IDE specifically designed for Windows developers. Zeus is a fast and lean, fully scriptable, keyboard centric editor...

    Commercial Windows

  • UEStudio

    UEStudio offers all the functionality of UltraEdit plus other exciting and powerful features! Whether you are simply editing text, building applications, maintaining...

    Commercial Windows

  • SourceKit

    A Textmate like lightweight programmer's text editor right inside of Chrome. It saves files directly to Dropbox, so if you have the Dropbox sync software installed...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome

  • MetroTextual

    MetroTextual is a Windows text editor inspired by Microsoft’s Metro Design Language. It’s designed to be a visually appealing replacement for Notepad; with significant...

    Free Windows

  • PHP Studio

    PHP Studio is an easy-to-use and comprehensive development solution for PHP based websites and applications. This advanced PHP editor has many features that will...

    Commercial Windows