Top 10 Notepad++ Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Notepad++ Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Visual Studio Code
By Microsoft
4.7/5
(2,456)
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 Notepad++, Visual Studio Code is:
Easier to do business with
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor

Sublime Text
By Sublime HQ
4.5/5
(1,766)
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 Notepad++, Sublime Text is:
More expensive
Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor

UltraEdit
By Idera, Inc.
4.7/5
(1,125)
Product Description
UltraEdit is a powerful text editor and code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux that supports nearly any programming language and easily handles huge (4+ GB) files. Includes (S)FTP, SSH console, powerful find/replace with Perl regex support, scripting / macros, and more.
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Reviewers say compared to Notepad++, UltraEdit is:
More expensive
Better at support
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor
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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 Notepad++, TextPad is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Categories in common with Notepad++:
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 Notepad++, GNU Emacs is:
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor

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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Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor

BBEdit
By Bare Bones
4.5/5
(63)
Product Description
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh that provides features for editing, searching, and minipulation of text for web authors and software developers.
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Reviewers say compared to Notepad++, BBEdit is:
More expensive
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor

EmEditor
By Emurasoft
4.4/5
(27)
Product Description
EmEditor is a text editor for Windows that supplies larger files and Unicode, macros, plug-ins and more.
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Reviewers say compared to Notepad++, EmEditor is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor

NoteTab
By Fookes Software Ltd
4.7/5
(25)
Product Description
NoteTab is a Notepad replacement HTML and text editor with text-processing, search and replace, capture and copy text to clipboard, reusable text snippets and macros, and other utilities to help the editing process.
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Reviewers say compared to Notepad++, NoteTab is:
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
Better at support
Categories in common with Notepad++:
Text Editor

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