Alternative apps to Notepad++:
  • 16 votes
    Visual Studio Code 1.91.1
    A free source code editor for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, and code refactoring.
    • Freeware
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 64 votes
    Sublime Text 4.4169
    Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
    • Free to Try
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 30 votes
    Notepad++ Plugin Manager 1.4.12
    Plugin Manager allows you to install, update and remove plugins from Notepad++.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 31 votes
    UltraEdit 31.0.0.35
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    • Free to Try
    • Windows
  • 21 votes
    PilotEdit Lite 18.9.0
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    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 108 votes
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    • Freeware
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 98 votes
    PSPad 5.0.7.773
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    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 11 votes
    EditPad Lite 8.5.0
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    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 19 votes
    EditPlus Text Editor 5.7.4
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    • Free to Try
    • Windows
  • 12 votes
    Notepad2 4.2.25
    Light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • Not rated yet
    0 votes
    RJ TextEd 16.25
    RJ TextEd - A Unicode source and text editor.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • Not rated yet
    0 votes
    QOwnNotes 24.7.1
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    • Freeware
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 4.6/5
    5 votes
    BabelPad 15.1.0.4
    Unicode text editor for Windows that allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 4.2/5
    5 votes
    WinMerge Portable 2.16.36
    Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 5/5
    2 votes
    AkelPad 4.9.8
    AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 5/5
    2 votes
    FreeText 1.46
    Notepad for recording different information. The program for everyday use.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 3.3/5
    4 votes
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    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 5/5
    2 votes
    SynWrite 6.41.2780
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    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 5/5
    1 votes
    EverEdit 3.3.2
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    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • Not rated yet
    0 votes
    Flashnote 2.2
    Flashnote is just a rough copy for your quick work with any text information.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 3/5
    1 votes
    Notepad.NET 0.2
    Notepad.NET is a visually appealing replacement for Windows Notepad build on the Microsoft .NET 3.5 framework.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • Not rated yet
    0 votes
    Etherpad 1.6.0
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    • Freeware
    • Windows