If you use Windows and use the default "Notepad" a lot for various tasks like writing notes, coding, etc, this topic might be useful for you.
Today in this topic, we are going to cover a few FREE applications which look and work similar to Notepad but provide lots of useful features which are missing in Notepad.
So without wasting any time, lets take a look at the free alternatives to Notepad:
- Notepad++
- Notepad2
- Metapad
- FluentNotepad
- Glass Notepad
- Transparent Notepad
- PSPad
- Programmer's Notepad
- NoteTab Light
- TED Notepad
- SciTE Text Editor
- BDV Notepad
- Charny Notepad
- AkelPad
Above are the best free alternatives to Notepad. Give them a try and choose whichever fits to your requirements. Our favorite is "Notepad2". Its very light-weighted and provides lots of useful features. "Notepad++" is also a good one.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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AHadley
Notepad2 all the way. As a game developer, this is by far and away one of the most useful programs on my computer.
WOW
I use the Windows Built-In Notepad.exe :-)
maxdamage
Thanks.
BTW I use notepad 2008 and editpad because is has the tab feature like firefox,google chrome,etc....