🗂️ Navigation
🔧 Notepad++

Notepad++

A free source code editor and Notepad replacement.

Visit Website →

Overview

Notepad++ is a free and open-source text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. The project's name comes from the C increment operator. Notepad++ is known for its small size, fast launch time, and extensive feature set that makes it a popular replacement for the default Windows Notepad.

✨ Key Features

  • Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
  • User Defined Syntax Highlighting and Folding
  • PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) Search/Replace
  • Extensible via a plugin system
  • Tabbed interface for multi-document editing
  • Column Mode Editing
  • Auto-completion

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Extremely lightweight and fast
  • Simple and intuitive user interface
  • Large number of available plugins
  • Powerful find and replace capabilities

Unique Value: Provides a fast, lightweight, and feature-rich text editing experience on Windows for free.

🎯 Use Cases (4)

Quickly editing text and configuration files Lightweight coding and scripting Log file analysis A replacement for the standard Windows Notepad

✅ Best For

  • Editing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files
  • Writing and running simple scripts
  • Searching and replacing text across multiple files

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Large, complex software projects requiring IDE features
  • Non-Windows users
  • Collaborative editing

🏆 Alternatives

Sublime Text Visual Studio Code UltraEdit

Much more powerful than Windows Notepad, but simpler and faster to launch than full-featured editors like VS Code or Sublime Text.

💻 Platforms

Desktop (Windows)

✅ Offline Mode Available

🔌 Integrations

Various plugins for FTP, hex editing, code comparison, etc.

💰 Pricing

Contact for pricing
Free Tier Available

Free tier: Completely free and open-source.

Visit Notepad++ Website →