2
Score: 99%
FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
More Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for multiple languages. Plugins can be extended. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,GNOME
Alternatives 4
Score: 99%
FreeOpen SourceWindows
More Quickly and easily, such as Notepad, notepad2, a text editor with syntax highlighting. As simple as possible, but powerful. Full unicode support. Out of the box can be run without installation and does not affect the system. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,
Alternatives 6
GNU nano
Score: 99%
FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
More GNU Nano is a small and friendly text editor. Basic text editing, Nano, as well as it has many extra features like an interactive search and changing the number of rows and columns, auto-indentation, has the international support and go to the tab file name completion. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,Haiku
8
Score: 99%
FreeOpen SourceWindowsLinux
More The KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax-highlighting text editor. Plugins can be extended. MDI interface. Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the editing widget of KDE, write your own, a lot of plus offers all of the features. Kate has been moved to the kdesdk package for KDE, and 2.2 since it came out favorite desktop is an integral part of it. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,Linux,BSD,KDE
Alternatives 10
Score: 97%
FreeWindows
More The most simple text editor. Only it saves as a text .txt-format. Together is available for download; works with all versions of Windows. Features:Free,Windows
Alternatives 12
Score: 98%
FreeOpen SourceWindows
More Simple notepad-like text editor with many features. A is designed to be small and fast. User Interface In 20 Languages. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,
Alternatives 14
Score: 93%
CommercialWindows
More In addition, the most demanding text editing is designed to provide power and functionality to meet your needs. The limits of virtual memory files that you can edit. Features:Commercial,Windows
Alternatives 16
Score: 93%
FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
More Discount running ownCloud Notes application support and together QOwnNotes, Linux, Mac OS X and for Windows todolist manager, Editor-open source text. So then QOwnNotes and from your mobile device (cloud, such as the notes) or the ownCloud the Java plug-in, you can edit them, or search your thoughts with you are able to write. Notes are saved as text-only files, and the ownCloud file synchronization is synchronous with the function. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Qt
Alternatives 18
Score: 92%
FreeMac
More If you need to create a text document, TextEdit control is a very versatile word-processing program, layout and format and layout stylized text tools, including Features:Free,Mac
Alternatives 20
Score: 56%
FreeWindows
More The most complex BabelPad Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper processing of the free command, and allows you to assign different fonts Features:Free,Windows,
Alternatives 22
Score: 40%
FreeOpen SourceLinux
More Powerful and easy-to-use console-based text editor Diakonos. Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD
Alternatives 24
Score: 33%
FreeChromeWeb
More When scanning, you can use your browser as Notepad, to-do notes. To go for the notebook now have nowhere to go, will not convert into your browser Features:Free,Web,Chrome,OS,Chrome
Alternatives 26
Score: 33%
FreemiumWindows
More New users can easily create text documents or modify existing ones, plus editing text is a simple tool with which you. The application is designed as an alternative for Features:Freemium,Windows
Alternatives 28
Score: 50%
FreeWindows
More The Editor wants to be promoted, but I still want to keep it simple. Zebra is a software solution for the Pad. Features:Free,Windows
Alternatives Basic Notepad alternatives FAQ
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Are there free Basic Notepad alternatives?
Yes. Free, freemium, or open-source options in this list include gedit, Notepad2, GNU nano, Kate, Notepad.
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