Top 15 Notepad Replacer Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Advantages to using Notepad Replacer

Won't replace ANY system files, or change ANY file permissions
Won't trigger Windows File Protection warnings (WFP)
Won't run all the time, won't take up any system resources in the background
Doesn't require special support by the alternative application
Just un-install Notepad Replacer to revert back to the default Windows Notepad

1. UltraEdit

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).......

2. Notepad2-mod

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,......

3. 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......

4. 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,......

5. NEdit

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......

6. 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.......

7. 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;......

8. 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,......

9. TinyEdit

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......

10. Chocolat

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

11. 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......

12. Notepad++

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......

13. Cream (for Vim)

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.......

14. Jota+ Text Editor

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......

15. 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.......