Text Editor for Windows—Free for Personal Use

EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:

• Large file and long line support.
• Full Unicode support, including complex scripts and right-to-left scripts.
• Direct editing of text files using Windows, UNIX, and mac Mac text encodings (code pages) and line breaks.
• Tabbed interface for working with many files.
• Unlimited undo and redo for all open files, even after saving.
• Automatic backup and working copies prevent data loss.
• Powerful search-and-replace with literal search terms and regular expressions that can span multiple lines.

Larry Collins

“I searched many other text editors to replace Notepad on my Windows 10 PC. There were many choices but only 1 selection: EditPad Lite. Thank you for this software. It is what I was looking for all along.”

6 August 2024

B. Smoak

“I just had to let you know that I’ve been using EditPad Lite for a while now and I Love It! I’ve recommended it to my family and friends with high marks for quality, speed and features. I have used many different Notepad clones trying to find the balance between user friendliness and utility. EditPad Lite represents the fusion that finally brings balance to the Force.”

8 March 2018

Elaina Moore-Kelly

“As a long time (licensed) user of EditPad Lite, may I say first that I love this program. It’s so easy and convenient to use especially when I’m double-checking text from a web page or some code I have written using a code editor.”

20 August 2016, Florida, USA

Jane Williams

“I just wanted to tell you that I’d been trying to edit some huge text files (MySQL data export), and my usual code editors crashed or froze on sight of them. EditPad Lite just did the job, simply and smoothly, with beautifully intelligible error messages when it thought it had a problem (encoding issues with special characters).”

9 February 2012, United Kingdom