Text Editors

EditPlus
Free Trial
A text editor, HTML editor, PHP editor, Java editor and Hex Viewer for Windows.
Text Editor Pro
Free
Powerful text editing tool with syntax highlighting support for programming languages and scripts.
UltraEdit
Free Trial
The most flexible, powerful, and secure text editor.
Notepad++
Free
A simple, lightweight, and extensible programming plain-text editor.
ModernCSV
Free
The Ultimate CSV Editor/Viewer.
Etherpad
Free
A highly customizable open source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.
Atom
Free
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.
EditPad Lite
Free
A compact general-purpose text editor.
SciTE
Free
A SCIntilla based Text Editor.
GNU Emacs
Free
An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
MonsterWriter
Free
The most enjoyable desktop app for writing a thesis or paper.
AkelPad
Free
An open source editor for plain text.
BabelPad
Free
Bluefish
Free
BowPad
Free
A small and fast text editor with a ribbon user interface and syntax highlighting.
CudaText
Free
A powerful plain text editor, designed for programmers.
jEdit
Free
A mature programmer's text editor with hundreds of person-years of development behind it.
Kate
Free
A feature-packed text editor.
Lite XL
Free
Fast, Lightweight and Powerful Text-Editing Experience.
Metapad
Free
A small, fast and completely free text editor for Windows.