Mousepad Alternatives

Mousepad Alternatives

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15 best mousepad alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android and more. Mousepad alternative list source: git.xfce.org

15 alternativesFree, Open Source, Commercial, Freemium Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Web
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Compare top-ranked Mousepad alternatives by score, license, and supported platforms.

AlternativeScoreLicensePlatforms
Notepad++100% 8449 votesFree, Open SourceWindows
Sublime Text100% 3445 votesFreemiumWindows, Mac, Linux
Vim100% 2139 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Gedit100% 1261 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Visual Studio Code100% 1033 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Geany99% 935 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Notepad299% 567 votesFree, Open SourceWindows
TextMate99% 497 votesOpen Source, CommercialMac
GNU nano99% 409 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Mac, Linux
Notepad97% 313 votesFreeWindows
SciTE97% 271 votesFree, Open SourceWindows, Linux
JEdit99% 213 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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3445

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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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Gedit

Score: 100%

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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1033

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Visual Studio Code

Score: 100%

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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935

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Geany

Score: 99%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsMacLinux
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Geany small and lightweight integrated development environment. Only a few more packages with dependencies that was developed in a small and fast IDE, is available. Other purpose requires only the GTK2 runtime libraries Geany special desktop environment like KDE or Gnome was as independent as possible. Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Windows,Linux,BSD,
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567

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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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497

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TextMate

Score: 99%

Open SourceCommercialMac
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TextMate brings Apples approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. Unix basics by completing and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds, for the benefit of users, expert and novice script writers. Whether you are a programmer or a designer, the production of code and markup is a challenging task. Without a custom editor for this task is often cumbersome, overwhelming, and repetitive. Features:Commercial,Open,Source,Mac
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409

5

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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Notepad

Score: 97%

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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271

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SciTE

Score: 97%

FreeOpen SourceWindowsLinux
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Jota is a text editor based Website. To be for the show in the slightest, in fact, grown generally useful editor with facilities for building and running the programs. Even at the best test and demonstration programs as well as scite, And I used to work with simple configurations for the construction of the slightest use. The WEBSITE Intel Win32 and GTK+ for Linux compatible operating systems is available. Fedora and Ubuntu run on Windows 7 8 XP. Features:Free,Open,Source,Windows,Linux,BSD,Xfce
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213

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JEdit

Score: 99%

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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121

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Leafpad

Score: 96%

FreeOpen SourceMacLinux
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Leafpad is a simple text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight to reduce to a minimum, only the basic functions Features:Free,Open,Source,Mac,Linux,BSD,Cygwin,MacPorts
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Caret

Score: 87%

FreeChromeWeb
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Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS. Hat http://alternativeto graphical text editor modeled . Features:Free,Web,Chrome,OS,Chrome
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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

Mousepad alternatives FAQ

What is the best Mousepad alternative?

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

Are there free Mousepad alternatives?

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

Which platforms are covered?

The alternatives in this list include options for Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Web, 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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