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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Notepad

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Notepad is a simple text editor; it creates and edits plain text documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Text Editor

GNOME Text Editor – simple text editor that focuses on session management

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Text Editor is a simple text editor that focuses on session management.

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Text Editor

CorePad – simple lightweight but powerful text editor

July 14, 2024 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

CorePad is a document editor for C Suite, a minimalistic application suite to cover all the basic day to day tasks.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Pluma – text editor for the MATE desktop environment

July 13, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Pluma is a small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the MATE environment. It started as a fork of Gedit.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Nota – browse, create, and edit text files

July 12, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Nota is a very small text editor that lets you browse, create and edit text files. It’s designed for desktop and mobile computers.

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Text Editing

FeatherPad – lightweight Qt plain-text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment.

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Text Editor

gedit – GNOME text editor

July 11, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

gedit is a small and lightweight text editor for the GNOME environment. gedit supports most standard editing features.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Airpad – basic GUI text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Airpad is a basic, generic graphical text editor. It has all of the functionalities one would expect.

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Text Editor

xed – small and lightweight text editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

xed is a small and lightweight text editor. xed supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your typical text editor.

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Text Editing

Kate – multi document editor

July 10, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

The KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is a source code editor developed by the KDE free software community.

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Text Editing

Mousepad – simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment

July 9, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

Mousepad is a simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment.

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Text Editor

Notes – distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

The Notes app is a distraction free notes taking app for Nextcloud.

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Text Editor

HedgeDoc – create real-time collaborative markdown notes

March 3, 2024 Steve Emms Documents

HedgeDoc is a real-time, multi-platform collaborative markdown note editor.

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Text Editor

Gobby – collaborative editor

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Gobby is a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It integrates well with the GNOME environment.

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Text Editor

CryptPad – realtime collaborative editor

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

CryptPad is a realtime collaborative editor. Make quick collaborative documents for taking notes and writing down ideas together.

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Text Editor

Firepad – collaborative code and text editing

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Firepad is a collaborative text editor. It’s designed to be embedded inside larger web applications with collaborative code editing.

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Text Editor

ProseMirror – rich semantic content editor

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

ProseMirror is a well-behaved rich semantic content editor based on contentEditable.

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Text Editor

Etherpad – online editor providing real-time collaborative editing

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

Etherpad is a web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document leave comments.

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Text Editor

ne – text editor

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

ne is a full screen open source text editor. It is intended to be an easier to learn alternative to vi, yet still portable across POSIX-compliant OS.

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Text Editor

Textadept – text editor software

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Version also available for the terminal.

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