"I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy DocPad. What an absolutely nice all around multi-feature text editor."
- Sidris Henriksen

"The best I've found of many I've tried. It's my replacement for Notepad & WordPad."
- John

"Been using it for about 6 months and don't know what I would do without it now."
- Sidney Hobbs

DocPad

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DocPad is a free alternative to Notepad. Although it fills the same role, plain text editing, it offers an arsenal of time-saving tools: block indent/unindent, bookmarking, case conversion, customizable toolbar, encoding conversion, file backups, file history, jump to line/offset, keyboard macros, print preview, search and replace, skinnable interface, spell checking, statistics, variable pitch font, and much more. It also includes a built-in calculator, calendar, and character map.

Features

The Tabbed Document Interface allows you to open multiple files for editing in one window.
Undo up to 100 changes
Variable-width fonts
Edits files with 8-bit ASCII characters or 16-bit unicode characters.
Search and replace, with case-insensitive, whole-word, and regular expression options.
Calculator, calendar, and character map tools
Backups of every changed file can easily be restored
Spell checking (English and Spanish)
Toolbar, Status Bar
Keyboard macros (unlimited in size and number)
Scalable, skinnable user interface
Word wrap
Statistics on characters, words, lines, and paragraphs
Convert to lower/upper/title/sentence case
Cut, copy, and paste
Text drag & drop
Imports HTML files, converting to plain text
Print and Print Preview (user can adjust margins, font, page numbering).
Block indention and unindention
Bookmark
Jump to line/character
Normalize spaces
File type association tool
Recent file history
Convert various encodings including Base-64, Quoted-Printable, UTF-8, etc.
Alphabetization of paragraphs
Trim trailing spaces from lines
Detailed help file

And it's free!

Download

Click the button below to download DocPad version 24.0, released on September 19th, 2019. Microsoft Windows is required (XP or later).

Download

Notes:

The download is a self-contained executable installer. Simply open the file to begin installation.
The download is approximately 11 MB and installation will use approximately 40 MB of hard disk space.
If you prefer to download the installer inside of a .zip file, click here.
To update an existing installation, simply install the new version over the old one.

Purchase

DocPad is fully functional freeware. However, if you like it, you can make a donation (available in $5 increments).

Donate