Top Alternatives to Notepad

Notepad++ is a free open source notepad replacement and code editor with nice features. It supports syntax highlighting for many languages and has an extension system as well.

Sublime Text is a code editor and syntax highlighter with advanced features which can be enhanced with extensions too.

Vim is an open source advanced text editor.

Atom is a free open-source code editor from Github.

gedit is a free and open-source code editor.

GNU Emacs is the most popular and most ported Emacs text editor.

TextMate is a graphical text editor for OS X 10.8+.

PSPad is a freeware programmer's editor for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

GNU nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.

KDE Advanced Text Editor (KATE) is a free and opensource text editor.

UltraEdit is the world's best text editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor.

Leafpad is an open source text editor for Linux, BSD, and Maemo.

Programmers Notepad(PN1) is an open-source text editor targeted at users who work with source code.

TextPad is a text editor for the Windows.

WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment.

Byword is simple and efficient text editor for Markdown.

WordPad is a basic word processor that is included with almost all versions of Windows.

EditPad Lite a text editor with all the necessary basic features. Free for non-commercial use. An ideal replacement for Notepad.

BBEdit is a proprietary text editor.

ReText: Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText.

TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXTs NeXTSTEP and OpenStep.

RJ TextEd is a freeware Unicode text and source code editor for Windows, that can also be used as a simple web development tool.

Scribes is a minimalist text editor that combines simplicity with power.

SynWrite is a free source code editor, HTML editor, and Notepad replacement for Windows systems.

Mousepad is a simple text editor for Xfce.

Editra is a cross-platform, open-source text editor, released under a wxWindows license.

wxMEdit is a cross-platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ & wxWidgets. wxMEdit is an improved version of MadEdit which has been discontinued.

JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor.

Aquamacs is an Emacs text editor for macOS.

CotEditor is a text editor for macOS.

Jota is a text editor designed for a long text file.

TweakStyle is an advanced Code editor for creating and customizing the Web.

MadEdit is a cross-platform text/hex editor.

HippoEDIT is a fast and easy to use Windows text editor.