Top 15 Large Text File Viewer Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Have you ever felt frustrated when you just want to look at the content of a large text file but it takes forever for Notepad or Word to open it? This program was designed for viewing large (>1GB) text files. It uses little memory and is able to open a gigabyte file instantly.

1. Batch Text File Editor

Batch Text File Editor Batch-Notepad that can replace, insert, delete, copy, and move text in multiple files in bulk!- RegEx support with colored syntax highlighting and RegEx match substitutions.- Multi-line replace lets you search for and replace text spanning multiple lines.- Wildcards, case sensitivity , and match counting options can refine your search! Insert......

2. Batch RegEx

Batch RegEx Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions.- Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data extraction, and more!- Built-in RegEx editors support color syntax highlighting and contextual tooltips making it easy to design patterns.- Specialized RegEx tools like html/xml tag selector, line selector, or......

3. Batch Files

Batch Files Replace, insert, delete, copy, move, format, extract, convert, encode, encrypt text and bytes in multiple files. Process 1000s files using multiple CPU cores in manual, automatic/continuous, triggered/scheduled, or console modes, or directly from Windows Explorer right-click menu. Save files to output directory specified using either absolute or relative path, with......

4. Jane

Jane Jane is Just Another Nasty Editor, designed to view and edit all kind of ASCII files. There are millions of similar editors already available, but the choice is yours: those who try this might discover nice features they'll soon don't want to miss anymore.Jane features:- Shell integration (double-click ascii files......

5. Simple Code Editor

Simple Code Editor Features of Simple Code Editor include: Theming, Emmet support, a minimalist interface, syntax highlighting, and more.......

6. 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......

7. EmEditor

EmEditor EmEditor is a fast Unicode text editor for Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting large files, scriptable macros, CSV files, keyword highlighting and more.......

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. HxD

HxD HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of......

10. JujuEdit

JujuEdit JujuEdit is a file editor, or alternatively a text editor with knobs-on. It is an application designed for me and people like me. At its simplest, it makes a fine replacement for Notepad. It may appeal more to computer nerds who like syntax hilighting and advanced find/replace algorithms. Features: Very......

11. 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......

12. NFOPad

NFOPad NFOPad is a small, fast and flexible combined text editor and nfo viewer. It is a clone of Microsoft's Notepad but much more customizable and with some additional features. NFOPad fully supports Unicode as well as nfo files with ASCII art.......

13. TEXTS

TEXTS TEXTS is rich editor for plain text. Write structured documents. Store in plain text. Publish to many formats.......

14. ghostwriter

ghostwriter About ghostwriterghostwriter is a Windows and Linux text editor for Markdown, which is a plain text markup format created by John Gruber. For......

15. AkelPad

AkelPad A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages.Features * Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window modes (PMDI); * Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn't theoretically limited);......