Freeware Text Editors

34 free and open source downloads for Windows

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Vim for Windows 9.0.0195
Text Editor: Imitation of the UNIX text editor VI developed for Windows PCs with keyboard shortcuts.
Free Freeware
9.23 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.1 / 5.0)
Aug 13, 2022
Kate 22.04.3.1745
Text Editor: Powerful text editing application that supports all of the mainstream programming languages along with a set of tools useful for developers.
Free Open source
56.13 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7
Good (3.2 / 5.0)
Aug 11, 2022
Text Editor Pro 23.4.1
Script Editor: A powerful text editor, great for developers and programmers.
Free Freeware
5.83 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.6 / 5.0)
Jul 29, 2022
Notepad++ 8.4.4
Text Editor: The best, free Windows notepad replacement which supports programming, coding languages, syntax highlighting and more.
Free Freeware
4.08 MB
10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.6 / 5.0)
Jul 17, 2022
Notepad++ Portable 8.4.4
Text Editor: An excellent text editor which supports all types of coding, syntax, spellcheck and more.
Free Open source
3.29 MB
10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.5 / 5.0)
Jul 17, 2022
SciTE 5.2.4
Source Code Editor: A text editor with useful tools for programmers in many languages.
Free Freeware
1.89 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.9 / 5.0)
Jul 11, 2022
EditPad Lite 8.4.0
Text Editor: Basic and general usage text editor application which supports plaintext and web programming languages.
Free Freeware
18.08 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.5 / 5.0)
Jun 29, 2022
RJ TextEd 15.54.1
Text Editor: Featured-packed text and source code editor with support for syntax in several languages including HTML, PHP, C, C#, JavaScript and Perl.
Free Freeware
50.17 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.4 / 5.0)
Jun 24, 2022
BowPad 2.8.3
Source Code Editor: A programmers notepad support several languages with color coding like PHP, C++, Perl and HTML.
Free Open source
2.09 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.2 / 5.0)
Jun 2, 2022
Atom 1.60.0
Text Editor: Text editor and programmer's toolkit for clean and readable code.
Free Open source
0.01 KB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7
Very Good (4.2 / 5.0)
Mar 11, 2022
TED Notepad 6.3.1
Notepad Replacement: An awesome freeware text editor.
Free Freeware
218.42 KB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.0 / 5.0)
Dec 2, 2021
Text Filter Portable 2.1.0.2774
Text Search: Free text software for filtering text and files quickly with regex.
Free Freeware
508.34 KB
10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.0 / 5.0)
Nov 22, 2021
PSPad Editor 5.0.6.589
PSPad editor is a programmers editor supporting multiple syntax highlighting.
Free Freeware
8.06 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.7 / 5.0)
Apr 15, 2021
SynWrite 6.41.2780
Plugin Editor: Text and code editor designed for programmers with many features like code highlighting, customization and hotkey support.
Free Open source
10.97 MB
10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Average (2.8 / 5.0)
Mar 30, 2021
LyX 2.3.6.1
Document Processor: TeX and LaTeX editor with a WYSIWYG with support for multiple document types including PDF, RTF, HTML and Postscript.
Free Open source
53.54 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.5 / 5.0)
Jan 4, 2021
WriteMonkey 3.2.0
Text Editor: Distraction-free text editing for writers and bloggers.
Free Freeware
107.88 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Good (3.3 / 5.0)
Dec 22, 2020
jEdit 5.6.0
Text Editor: A programmers text editor with many great features including syntax highlighting for PHP, Perl, C, HTML and other languages.
Free Open source
4.72 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Fair (2.3 / 5.0)
Sep 4, 2020
Typeit! 4.994
Malayalam Editor: Helps you write and manage text documents in the Malayalam language.
Free Freeware
1.76 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.4 / 5.0)
Jul 2, 2020
NFOPad 1.75
NFO Viewer: A text editor specially designed for editing and viewing NFO information files.
Free Freeware
1.23 MB
10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.5 / 5.0)
Feb 16, 2020
Komodo Edit 12.0.1.18441
Multi-language Editor: A free programmers text editor with syntax recognition supporting web languages like PHP, HTML and CSS.
Free Open source
74.78 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7
Very Good (4.1 / 5.0)
Feb 16, 2020
TextEdit 3.0.0.4830
Text Editor: A simple text editor which can edit code in popular languages.
Free Freeware
798.04 KB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.2 / 5.0)
May 17, 2019
Flashnote 4.81
Notebook Creator: Flashnote is just a rough copy for your quick work with any text information.
Free Freeware
2.8 MB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.2 / 5.0)
Aug 21, 2017
GetDiz 4.91
Notepad Replacement: Notepad replacement with DIZ and NFO support, which can be found in ZIP and RAR.
Free Freeware
1.27 MB
10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Very Good (4.4 / 5.0)
Jul 29, 2016
Compact NFO Viewer 1.5.6
NFO Viewer: Small program which can view NFO files and open URLs inside them.
Free Freeware
670.5 KB
11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / V / XP
Average (3.0 / 5.0)
Mar 16, 2015