Top 15 Thunderpad Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them. Additionally, Thunderpad supports syntax highlighting, word count, line count and comes with various color schemes.

Features
Simple and clean interface.
Has various color schemes.
Distraction free features (such as full screen and/or Minimal Mode).
Includes "Minimal Mode", where the toolbar and statusbar are hidden.
Supports more advanced features, such as syntax highlighting and line numbers.
Can export the document as HTML or PDF.
Faster than other text editors.
Simple source code, which makes the programmer's life easier.
Tested on Linux, Mac and Windows.
Close integration with all supported platforms. ...

1. SynWrite

SynWrite SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.SynWrite features: syntax highlighting for lots of languages; fully customizable highlighting; code folding; tree structure view for source code; support for almost all encodings; auto-completion; source code templates; clipboard history panel; search, replace with regular expressions......

2. medit

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3. MetroTextual

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4. Notepas

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5. Pe (Programmer’s Editor)

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6. EditPlus

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7. Lime Text

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8. Mousepad

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9. Devpad

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, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.- Supports syntax highlighting and line numbering.- Import files from FTP, archives, FlowDocuments and......

10. Notepad2-mod

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11. GLeDitor

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12. Jota+ Text Editor

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13. Ra

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14. 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......

15. Speechnotes

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