EditPad™ Classic—The Original Postcardware Text Editor

The original EditPad was developed by a student named Jan Goyvaerts in 1996 and released as postcardware. Postcardware means that if you want to keep the software after a short trial period, you should send the author a nice postcard from the region where you lived. With the advent of version 3 in 1997, EditPad became one of the most popular text editors on the Windows platform. It was fast and compact and it had all the basic functionality a text editor needs.

In 2000, Jan Goyvaerts redesigned EditPad from the ground up and released version 4 in two editions. EditPad Lite was free for personal use, while business and government users could purchase EditPad Pro. We now refer to the original EditPad as EditPad Classic, to distinguish it from EditPad Lite and EditPad Pro.

Today, almost 30 years later, EditPad is still one of the best Windows text editors that you can buy. Version 8 is still available in Lite and Pro versions. EditPad Lite is still free for personal use, but can also be purchased by business and government users for US$ 29.95. EditPad Pro starts at US$ 59.95 for a single user license. Sales are now managed by Jan Goyvaerts’s company Just Great Software.

EditPad Classic is no longer available for download from Just Great Software.