Top 3 Notepad++ alternative text editor and source code editor for Windows.

Alternative text and source code editor to Notepad++ in windows.

Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows that supports several programming languages. Notepad++ was developed by Don Ho in September 2003.



Best Notepad++ alternatives and competitors

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Sublime Text

Sublime Text


Sublime Text is a proprietary cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages, and functions can be added by users with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses.

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Atom editor

Atom editor

Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub.

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Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open-source source code editor from Microsoft available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Visual Studio Code was announced on April 29, 2015. It is one of the fastest adopting code editors, in Stack Overflow 2018 Developer Survey, Visual Studio Code was ranked the most popular developer environment tool.