Top 6 Open-Source Alternatives to Thunderpad

Thunderpad

Textpad is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Textpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.

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Coding Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Software Development Text Editors Tool

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Thunderpad are Sublime Text, Notepad++, and Notepad3. 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
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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
Notepad++ Landing Page
2

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
Notepad3 Landing Page
3

Notepad3

Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
4

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
5

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
6

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions