| 1 |  Notepad++Notepad++ is a free source code editor that supports several languages. | 8.9.8.1 | Open source | September 24, 2026 | — | 22M ↓ |
| 2 |  AtomA hackable text editor for the 21st Century, free and open source. | 1.60.0 | Open source | March 8, 2022 | — | 1.3M ↓ |
| 3 |  NeovimVim-fork focused on extensibility and usability | 0.12.6 | Open source | October 9, 2026 | — | 744.4K ↓ |
| 4 |  GeanyA powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. | 2.1.0 | Open source | July 6, 2025 | — | 36.4K ↓ |
| 5 |  WordPress.comA control panel for all your WordPress sites. | 8.2.4 | Open source | September 29, 2026 | — | 11.2K ↓ |
| 6 |  FontForgeFontForge is a free and open source font editor brought to you by a community of fellow type lovers. | 20251009 | Open source | October 18, 2025 | — | 19.3K ↓ |
| 7 |  BracketsWith focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. It's crafted from the ground up for web designers and front-end developers. | 1.14.17770 | Open source | June 8, 2021 | — | 180.6K ↓ |
| 8 |  AvidemuxAvidemux is a simple platform video editor for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. | 2.8.1 | Open source | February 14, 2025 | — | 78.3K ↓ |
| 9 |  Markdown MonsterThe Markdown Editor for Windows | 4.5.8.0 | Proprietary | October 23, 2026 | — | 202.9K ↓ |
| 10 |  MarkTextA simple and elegant Markdown editor focused on speed and usability. | 0.23.0 | Open source | October 21, 2026 | — | 28.2K ↓ |
| 11 |  HelixHelix Editor | 25.07.1 | Open source | July 18, 2025 | — | 20.6K ↓ |
| 12 |  Notepad3Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code. | 7.26.602.1 | Free | June 2, 2026 | — | 84.4K ↓ |
| 13 |  TiledTiled is a 2D level editor for game developers to create and edit map tiles for game content. | 1.12.2 | Open source | June 15, 2026 | — | 25.5K ↓ |
| 14 |  NeovideNo Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust | 0.16.2 | Open source | April 14, 2026 | — | 20K ↓ |
| 15 |  CudaTextCross-platform text editor, written in Free Pascal. | 1.235.1.0 | Open source | August 6, 2026 | 13.2 MB | 71.5K ↓ |
| 16 |  PulsarA Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor | 1.132.1 | Open source | May 21, 2026 | — | 17K ↓ |
| 17 |  GNU EmacsAn extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor - and more. | 31.1 | Open source | August 31, 2026 | 94.7 MB | 135.1K ↓ |
| 18 |  VimVim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient | 9.2.1186 | Open source | October 14, 2026 | — | ★ 2.3K |
| 19 |  VimVim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient | 9.2.1186 | Open source | October 14, 2026 | — | ★ 2.3K |
| 20 |  JOSMJOSM is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap (OSM) for Java 17+ | 19613 | Open source | September 8, 2026 | 91.6 MB | 108.7K ↓ |
| 21 |  Notepad2-modFast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting | 4.2.25.998 | Proprietary | March 30, 2021 | — | 53.1K ↓ |
| 22 |  LyXLyX.LyX | 2.4.4.1 | Open source | February 5, 2026 | 60.4 MB | 44.2K ↓ |
| 23 |  Tabular EditorAn open-source tool for managing Analysis Services Tabular and Power BI models. | 2.29.0 | Open source | September 12, 2026 | — | 45.8K ↓ |
| 24 |  XmlNotepadXML Notepad provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents. | 2.9.0.22 | Open source | June 8, 2026 | — | 20.7K ↓ |
| 25 |  BowPadA simple and fast text editor with a ribbon UI. | 2.9.6 | Open source | September 25, 2025 | — | 29.7K ↓ |
| 26 |  EditA simple editor for simple needs. | 2.0.0 | Open source | April 29, 2026 | — | 2.9K ↓ |
| 27 |  Lite XLA lightweight text editor written in Lua, adapted from lite. | 2.1.8 | Open source | June 8, 2025 | — | 5.1K ↓ |
| 28 |  fvimNeovim front-end UI | 0.3.543 | Open source | September 25, 2025 | — | 26.5K ↓ |
| 29 |  TexmakerFree cross-platform LaTeX editor since 2003. | 6.0.2.0 | Open source | August 18, 2026 | 111.0 MB | 123K ↓ |
| 30 |  AsciidocFXAsciidoc Book Editor based on JavaFX 20 | 1.8.10 | Open source | July 1, 2024 | — | 5.5K ↓ |
| 31 |  Hosts File EditorEasily edit and manage the hosts file | 1.5.2 | Open source | August 16, 2026 | — | 7.6K ↓ |
| 32 |  UltraEditUltraEdit is the most flexible, powerful, and secure text editor. | 33.0.0.23 | Proprietary | July 9, 2026 | 460.0 MB | 53.8K ↓ |
| 33 |  MarkpadThe Notepad equivalent for Markdown | 2.8.4 | Open source | October 7, 2026 | — | 2K ↓ |
| 34 | EEmEditorA fast, lightweight, yet extensible, easy-to-use text editor, code editor, CSV editor, and large file viewer for Windows. | 26.4.0 | Proprietary | October 22, 2026 | 80.9 MB | 12.6K ↓ |
| 35 |  AtomicParsleyLightweight command line program for reading, parsing and setting metadata into MPEG-4 files | 20240608.083822.1ed9031 | Open source | December 29, 2024 | — | 5.4K ↓ |
| 36 |  Catch22 HexEditA hexadecimal file editor for Microsoft Windows. HexEdit allows the user to view and edit any type of file, no matter what format it is saved in. | 2.0.9 | Open source | July 31, 2025 | — | 7.5K ↓ |
| 37 |  Sublime Text 3Sublime is a sophisticated cross-platform text editor for code, markup and prose. | 3.2.2 | Proprietary | May 22, 2021 | — | 689.5K ↓ |
| 38 |  SLADESLADE3 is a modern editor for Doom-engine based games and source ports. It has the ability to view, modify, and write many different game-specific formats, and even convert between some of them, or from/to other generic formats such as PNG. | 3.2.12 | Open source | February 20, 2026 | — | 1.3K ↓ |
| 39 |  FrescobaldiFrescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor. | 3.3.0 | Open source | May 21, 2023 | — | 2K ↓ |
| 40 | TTeXnicCenterA feature-rich environment for writing LaTeX documents on Windows | 2.02 Stable | Open source | August 2, 2025 | 12.6 MB | 19.7K ↓ |
| 41 |  010 EditorProfessional Text Editor + World's Best Hex Editor | 16.0.4 | Proprietary | March 5, 2026 | 27.2 MB | 22.1K ↓ |
| 42 |  MoebiusModern ANSI & ASCII Art Editor | 1.0.29 | Open source | December 23, 2025 | — | 682 ↓ |
| 43 |  WinEdtWinEdt is a powerful and versatile Unicode (UTF8) text editor for Windows. | 11.2 | Proprietary | June 12, 2025 | 16.6 MB | 8.2K ↓ |
| 44 |  IcoFXIcoFX is an icon and cursor image editor for Windows. | 3.9 | Proprietary | February 5, 2024 | 17.2 MB | 10.9K ↓ |
| 45 | NNotepad2Notepad2, a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. | 4.2.25 | Free | July 8, 2024 | 359 KB | 71.3K ↓ |
| 46 |  InfiniTexA new age editor for academics who seek freedom and people with cryptography needs in rich text environments. | 0.9.16 | Open source | July 24, 2021 | — | 1K ↓ |
| 47 |  Rapid Environment EditorRapid Environment Editor (RapidEE) is an environment variables editor. It includes an easy to use GUI and replaces the small and inconvenient Windows edit box. | 9.2.0.937 | Free | March 30, 2021 | 5 KB | 36.5K ↓ |
| 48 |  ScrivenerTypewriter. Ring-binder. Scrapbook. Scrivener combines all the tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop. | 3.1.6.0 | Proprietary | September 3, 2025 | 184.9 MB | 1.4K ↓ |
| 49 | SsciteSCIntilla based Text Editor | 5.6.7 | Other licence | | — | 17.8K ↓ |
| 50 |  ZedHigh-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. | 1.25.3 | Open source | October 23, 2026 | — | ★ 92K |