Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Notepad

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Notepad are Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, and Vim. 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.

Sublime Text Landing Page
1

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
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
2

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1010 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
3

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
4

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
5

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
Netbeans Landing Page
6

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
GNU Emacs Landing Page
7

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
8

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
Notepad3 Landing Page
9

Notepad3

Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development
Geany Landing Page
10

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
OnlineNotepad.org Landing Page
11

OnlineNotepad.org

Free browser-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Notes #Note Taking #Personal Notes
Quill Landing Page
12

Quill

Powerful, API-driven rich text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #IDEs And Text Editors 29 social mentions