Top 15 Notepad Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Most simple text editor. Just plain text, saves in .txt format. Not available for download; bundled with all versions of Windows.

1. Microsoft HTML Help

Microsoft HTML Help Microsoft HTML Help is the standard help system for the Windows platform. Authors can use HTML Help to create online help for a software application or to create content for a multimedia title or Web site. Developers can use the HTML Help API to program a host application or hook......

2. MetroTextual

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;......

3. PrepixPad

PrepixPad Lightweight, handy and useful text editor which allows you to create, open, and save files using both the Rich Text Format and the Plain Text Format. Vikon has all the features of an advanced text editor.Vikon also includes a small source code editor, customized for six programming languages. These languages......

4. Quill

Quill Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. With its modular architecture and expressive API, it is completely customizable to fulfill any need.......

5. Atom

Atom A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't......

6. Kinesics Text Editor

Kinesics Text Editor The Kinesics Text Editor is a small, fast, efficient, portable text editor.The design and size of the Kinesics Text Editor makes it ideal for:Quick viewing and editingIt initializes much faster than development environments for quick viewing and editing of files.Console based developmentSome developers still prefer command line tools over integrated......

7. Kile

Kile Kile is a TeX/LaTeX editor providing a user friendly environment to edit TeX/LaTeX source code.To install Kile on Windows, follow this tutorial: http://goo.gl/j1avz......

8. GNU sed

GNU sed sed (stream editor) is a Unix utility that parses text and implements a programming language which can apply transformations to such text. It reads input line by line (sequentially), applying the operation which has been specified via the command line (or a sed script), and then outputs the line.......

9. RJ TextEd

RJ TextEd RJ TextEd is a full featured text and source editor with Unicode support, syntax highlighting and code folding. The functionality extends beyond text files and includes support for HTML editing with integrated preview, spell checking, auto completion, HTML validation, templates and more. The program also include support for Topstyle Lite......

10. TotalEdit

TotalEdit TotalEdit is a powerful notepad replacement and text editor. Packed full of features to help everyone from office workers, journalists through to programmers and web site editors.It is perfect for editing web sites (including PHP, HTML, Javascript, Ruby, JSP), file and hex editing, programming and AutoCad development with support for......

11. Geany

Geany Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires......

12. skEdit

skEdit Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more. This is a lightweight editor for most things web that's very comfortable and easy to use. Perfect for handling both......

13. LopeEdit

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,......

14. Noteany.com

Noteany.com NoteAny.com - Note Anything, Anytime, Anywhere! A simple yet powerful notepad in the cloud.......

15. Hexplorer

Hexplorer Open Source powerful and flexible Hex-Editor, with multiple colour-schemes that allow easy visual indication of byte-magnitude.......