Top 10 mousepad Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to mousepad Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Notepad++
By Notepad++
4.6/5
(2,412)
Product Description
Notepad++ is a source code editor and notepad replacement that supports several languages in a MS Windows environment with Syntax highlighing and folding, PCRE, customizable GUI, auto-completion and more.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, Notepad++ is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

Sublime Text
By Sublime HQ
4.5/5
(1,767)
Product Description
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, Sublime Text is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

Visual Studio Code
By Microsoft
4.7/5
(2,476)
Product Description
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, Visual Studio Code is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor
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gedit
By GNOME Foundation
4/5
(76)
Product Description
gEdit is a general purpose text editor that includes internationalized text, syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file reverting, print and print preview support and more.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, gedit is:
Better at support
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

Brackets
By Adobe
4.4/5
(259)
Product Description
Brackets is a text editor tool that makes it easy to design in the browser, it iss crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, Brackets is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

Leafpad
By Leafpad
3.7/5
(16)
Product Description
Leafpad is a GTK+ text editor that has implemented features in the editor such as Codeset option, auto codeset detection, undo/redo, auto/multi-line indent, drag and drop, and more.
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Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

TextPad
By Helios Software Solutions
4.4/5
(143)
Product Description
TextPad7.4 is a powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Easy to use, with all the features a power user requires.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, TextPad is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

Kate
By KDE
4.2/5
(15)
Product Description
Kate is an editor and programmer software.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, Kate is:
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

GNU Emacs
By FreeCAD
4.5/5
(83)
Product Description
GNU Emacs is a customizable text editor that is an interpreter and dialect with extension to support text editing with content-sensitive editing modes, built-in documentation, Unicode support, and more.
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Reviewers say compared to mousepad, GNU Emacs is:
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
Categories in common with mousepad:
Text Editor

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