Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Leafpad

Product categories

Coding Content Collaboration Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Note Taking Personal Notes Software Development Task Management Team Collaboration Text Editors Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Leafpad are Turtl, Vim, and MindForger. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Turtl Landing Page
1

Turtl

The secure, collaborative notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $3.0 / Monthly
#Task Management #Note Taking #Team Collaboration 27 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
2

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
MindForger Landing Page
3

MindForger

Thinking notebook and Markdown IDE web site home page
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Task Management #Todos
Notepad++ Landing Page
4

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
5

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Joplin Landing Page
6

Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
7

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1017 social mentions
TiddlyWiki Landing Page
8

TiddlyWiki

a non-linear personal web notebook
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions
GNU Emacs Landing Page
9

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
10

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
11

Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
12

Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 social mentions