Leafpad Alternatives

Leafpad Alternatives

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25 best leafpad alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Leafpad alternative list source: tarot.freeshell.org

25 alternativesFree, Open Source, Commercial, Freemium Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPad +1
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Compare top-ranked Leafpad alternatives by score, license, and supported platforms.

AlternativeScoreLicensePlatforms
Notepad++100% 8449 votesFree, Open SourceWindows
Sublime Text100% 3445 votesFreemiumWindows, Mac, Linux
Vim100% 2137 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Atom100% 1811 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Gedit99% 1261 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Visual Studio Code99% 1029 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Brackets99% 755 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
GNU Emacs99% 595 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Notepad299% 565 votesFree, Open SourceWindows
Coda99% 559 votesCommercialMac, iPhone, iPad
Tomboy99% 455 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
GNU nano99% 407 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
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Notepad++

Score: 100%

FreeOpen SourceWindows
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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 to ensure a higher execution speed and smaller program size. User-friendly by optimizing as many routines as possible without loss of the Editor, and to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,
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Sublime Text

Score: 100%

FreemiumWindowsMacLinux
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Any HTML and prose Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code text file. Youll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. To Sublime Text can be evaluated without a time limit the last can be downloaded for free, however a license must be purchased to continue use. Features:Freemium,Mac,Windows,Linux
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Vim

Score: 100%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Vim "VI improved" - syntax, word completion, carry a large amount of content and advanced text-editor. Energy-efficiency for the processing by a plurality of "modes". This nonuserfriendly vim application, but at the same time. Task-oriented commands for normal mode and alpha numeric keys binds. In the visual mode, text is highlighted. Command-mode provides more tools for the search and replace functions, etc. define. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,Haiku
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Atom

Score: 100%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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21. A hackable text editor for centuries. GitHub, by the way we want, we will build a text editor. You can customize it to do something, but on the first day, without ever a vehicle touching at the same time efficient to use a configuration file. The nucleus of an atom, modern, accessible, and can be broken. We cant wait to see what you build. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,Electron,/,Atom,Shell
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Gedit

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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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
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Visual Studio Code

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Rich IDE help you code a full code, without the need of experience, combined with a modern user interface and optimised navigation, and integrated debugging editor. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,Linux,Electron,/,Atom,Shell,Mac
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Brackets

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Web brackets with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for an open source editor built on web technologies such as the design and development. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under the mit license. Focused visual tools and language support with the brackets in the browser makes it easily possible, the design of a modern text editor. Is intended for web designers and front-end developers from the ground. Brackets are lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Electron,/,Atom,Shell
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595

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GNU Emacs

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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GNU Emacs, and more extensible, customizable text editor. The programming language lisp, extensions, Emacs Lisp, the language, the essence of an interpreter support editing of the text. GNU Emacs-functions-text, source-code and HTML-Code for different file types, including modes, including syntax coloring, editing, content, and sensitive. Fully Integrated documentation, a tutorial for new users. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD
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Notepad2

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindows
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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,
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Coda

Score: 99%

CommercialMaciPhoneiPad
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Coda open, and manage local and remote files pixel-perfect preview and built-in fast, clean, and powerful text editor. And SSH is a line of. Highlighting for a lot of languages, which has everything you expect: syntax. Code-folding. ProjectWise Auto-Complete. Quick search and replace. Indent-guides. Automatic tag closing. Quickly comment and Code-SHIFT. Coda, deeply integrated file management, and battle tested. Features:Commercial,Mac,iPhone,iPad
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455

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Tomboy

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Use Tomboy on Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS to help X. simple and easy, but with the potential of a desktop application, you can organize ideas and notes Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD
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407

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GNU nano

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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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
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Kate

Score: 98%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsLinux
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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
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Notepad

Score: 98%

FreeWindows
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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
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JEdit

Score: 97%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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JEdit is a Mature programmers text editor with a large collection of plug-ins. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux
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EmEditor

Score: 97%

CommercialWindows
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Mid-level 7/Vista/XP/2000 supporting large files, script macros, CSV files, keyword highlighting and more windows for a fast Unicode text editor. Features:Commercial,Windows
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Notepad2-mod

Score: 96%

FreeOpen SourceWindows
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Changes to AutoHotkey, AutoIt3, AviSynth for word auto-completion, syntax highlighting notepad2 supports code folding support for bookmarks option is set, all occurrences of the according to the official, Bash, CMake, reliability, Setup, Latex, Lua, discount, in addition to Ruby, TCL and YAML command clean, uninterrupted registry edits to replace the Windows Notepad with ANSI-based method other various minor changes and improved support for the latest information Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,
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Neovim

Score: 93%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinuxAndroid
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New: to simplify Vim aggressive to the maintenance and promotion of the contributions is a project that needs to be rebuilt. The division of work between several developers. The kernel source code without changes new/modern user interfaces allow for the implementation. You develop to expand the ability to work with new plugin architecture. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,Android,BSD
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ReText

Score: 92%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Discount and reStructuredText retext is a simple text editor with live preview and syntax coloring optional for documents. Written in Python with Qt. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD
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Textadept

Score: 91%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Programmers text adept minimalist and ridiculous cross is a fast, extensible text editor. Written In C and Lua and relentlessly optimized Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD
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CotEditor

Score: 91%

FreeOpen SourceMac
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Syntax: more than 50 coloring (HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby, or tees, as the major languages pre-installed. You can also create your own settings. Command line: Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac
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Mousepad

Score: 90%

Open SourceLinux
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With a simple text editor for Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad text files quickly with a large group of plugins that should not be an editor or a development environment for the editing of easy-to-use and fast editor. UTF-8 for text features: full support/copy/paste, cut, find and mark describe all of the text (UTF-8 and some code-sets) choice of the font, character encoding detection, automatic wrapping/Redo, auto indent, the indent of a drag-and-drop printing of multiline Change Endless Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux,BSD,Xfce
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Code

Score: 92%

FreeOpen SourceLinux
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(Known as old scratch) build the code with an OS and basic advanced text editor. A very intuitive user interface Features:Free,Open,Source,Linux
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Notepad3

Score: 71%

FreeOpen SourceWindows
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Even if the Windows operating system has been updated in recent years. However, the Standard Windows Notepad have not been updated for 20 years. For simple programming tasks, if you have a text editor, using only vanilla Windows Notepad will not cut it. Notepad3! So, the Standard Windows Notepad notepad3 we have created with all of the features that are currently available. Notepad3 is a fast and lightweight text-editor with syntax-highlighting dazzling. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows
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Oni

Score: 75%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Atomic/Vs from the code? In contrast to most electron-based editors, Oni, high-performance renderer for the canvas properties, and offers the experience, without the vim emulation in its essence, together with the new. Vim/novim? A beautiful, modern code editors, you will find it in a package of new perks, such as workflow and fuzzy while enjoying complete out of the box. The processing of new, permanently? Oni begin to learn and Easy. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux

Leafpad alternatives FAQ

What is the best Leafpad alternative?

Notepad++ is currently the top-ranked option on this list based on community votes and item score.

Are there free Leafpad alternatives?

Yes. Free, freemium, or open-source options in this list include Notepad++, Sublime Text, Vim, Atom, gedit.

Which platforms are covered?

The alternatives in this list include options for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPad +1, depending on each product.

How are alternatives ranked?

Alternatives are ordered by community voting signals, item score, and the available product details collected for each option.

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