Top 15 Notepad Replacer Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

1. UltraEdit

UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later)....... TpSort Score | 270,000

2. Notepad2-mod

A modified version (fork) of Notepad2 based on Kai Liu's and other people's patches. Changes compared to the official Notepad2: Code folding; Support for bookmarks; Option to mark all occurrences of a word; Word auto-completion; Syntax highlighting support for AutoHotkey, AutoIt3, AviSynth, Bash, CMake,...... TpSort Score | 28,500,000

3. 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...... TpSort Score | 1,190,000

4. 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,...... TpSort Score | 3,090

5. NEdit

NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It provides intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text...... TpSort Score | 28,500,000

6. 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....... TpSort Score | 16,400,000

7. 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 improvements to performance and aesthetics. Hotshot programmers will also enjoy MetroTextual’s syntax highlighting; which is powered by Scintilla.Features:MetroTextual is minimalist and lightning fast. It’s not feature-packed;...... TpSort Score | 28,400,000

8. LopeEdit

[Be careful during the installation: Forum ]LopeEdit is a powerful programmers editor and a replacement of Windows Notepad. It has tabs to select between open files, supports syntax highlighting of multiple programing languages (C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, XML, HTML, ASP, JSP, SQL, Cobol, C#, CSS, Pascal,...... TpSort Score | 6,900

9. TinyEdit

TinyEdit Text Editor is a free text editor, a ideal tool as a good Notepad replacement, have many powerful features for Web page developers and programmers, supports syntax highlighting more than 26 languages source code, include Java, C/C++, HTML, CSS, PHP, XML, SQL, Perl, Python, Java Script and VB Script...... TpSort Score | 12,000

10. Chocolat

Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools....... TpSort Score | 8,390,000

11. 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...... TpSort Score | 11,700,000

12. Notepad++

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...... TpSort Score | 3,150,000

13. Cream (for Vim)

Cream is a free text editor.A modern configuration of the powerful and famous Vim , Cream is for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and FreeBSD....... TpSort Score | 15,400,000

14. Jota+ Text Editor

Powerful text editor for Android.Jota+ (i-o-ta plus) renwaled as a MAJOR UPDATE of Jota Text Editor.New features of Jota+- Support multi-file feature!- Support external file systems! ( Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive etc )- Support root access!- Modern UI based on ICS!- Highlight searching words!(External FS and root access needs plugins. If...... TpSort Score | 52,600,000

15. 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....... TpSort Score | 2,080,000