Top 15 Notepad++ Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment. ...

1. Ra

Ra A text editor and file manager for your local file system.FEATURES- Open files and folders from your local file system.- Create, rename or delete files and folders.- Copy and paste of files and folders.- Show or hide tree view of open folders.- Auto-save of editor changes.- Auto-refresh of external file......

2. Programmer's Notepad

Programmer's 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. * Syntax Highlighting for lots of languages, configured with schemes * Multi-language user interface * Unlimited number of schemes supported, powerful......

3. EverEdit

EverEdit EverEdit is a fast, lightweight, extendable text, source and binary editor for Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003+). While it can serve as a good Notepad replacement, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers. Full Unicode support(U16, U16-BE, UTF-8, Chinese,......

4. Syncplify.me Notepad!

Syncplify.me Notepad! Notepad! is the free, powerful, feature-rich replacement for your Windows Notepad. This software is completely free to use, for both personal and business purposes. With multi-document editing, split editing (two views of the same document, side by side, with synchronized editing), document maps, customizable printing and print preview, syntax highlighting......

5. Chocolat

Chocolat Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.......

6. slap

slap slap is a Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that strives to make editing from the terminal easier. It has:* first-class mouse support* GUI editor-like keybindings* copying/pasting with OS clipboard support* undo/redo* syntax highlighting for many languages* a Sublime-like file sidebar* select word to highlight other occurrences; double-click to select word* easy-to-use......

7. ConTEXT

ConTEXT ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers. After years searching for a suitable Windows text editor, we didnt find any of them to satisfy our needs, so we wrote our own.......

8. Notepas

Notepas Notepas is a fast portable native multiplatform text editor written in Lazarus and can be compiled for multiple platforms and widget sets using the advanced native Free Pascal Compiler.Exclusive features:- Alpha blended coloring supporting multiple layers of transparency for both text and background.- Code filter: a tool to filter lines......

9. CodeWright

CodeWright CodeWright® 7.5, the programmer's editing system,™ is designed to boost productivity with peer-to-peer connectivity for remote communication and file editing.Timesaving features include advanced search and replace, an editable Difference Window, syntax coloring, code intelligence, and customizable templates and snippets for code reuse. Tailor CodeWright options and keymaps to enhance usability.......

10. MadEdit-Mod

MadEdit-Mod Madedit-Mod is a cross platform text/hex editor based on MadEdit .Current Feature list:Original features from MadEdit(Hex Edit, Column Edit, many encodings support, etc) with lots of bug fixesMore encodings supported, eg, GB18030, CP874, CP866, KOI8-R and KOI8-U Macintosh encodings(Roman, Japanese, Chinese-trad, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai,......

11. RegEx Edit

RegEx Edit Create, edit, and test RegEx Regular Expressions. Replace, format, and extract text in files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks, use RegEx substitutions, extract data! Supports color syntax highlighting and contextual tooltips making it easy to design patterns. Specialized RegEx tools like html/xml tag selector, line selector, or number selector......

12. TextPad

TextPad TextPad is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements. It can edit files up to the limits of virtual memory, and it will work with the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008.TextPad has been......

13. jEdit

jEdit jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is released as free software with full source code, provided under the terms of the GPL......

14. medit

medit medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.......

15. EditPad Lite

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.It is a step up from Notepad, offering cleaner handling of large files, support for UNIX and Mac end-of-line characters, & provides a tabbed interface for......