Editpad Lite

About EditPad Lite and EditPad Pro. EditPad Lite is a basic text editor that is free for non-commercial use. EditPad Pro is a powerful and convenient text editor, totally useful for all your text editing tasks such as writing, web authoring and programming. You can buy EditPad Pro for only US$ 59.95. Why You Want EditPad Pro instead of Lite. EditPad Lite a text editor with all the necessary basic features. Free for non-commercial use. An ideal replacement for Notepad. Discover EditPad Lite alternatives, reviews, features and functionalities.

  • EditPad Lite is a freeware text editor software download filed under text editors and made available by Just Great Software for Windows. The review for EditPad Lite has not been completed yet, but it was tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
  • Tabbed NotePad replacement EditPad Lite is a tabbed text editor that can replace the standard Windows Notepad. In addition to tabs, which allows you to edit multiple files at a time, the program offers customizable text layouts, clickable URLs, advanced search with RegEx and many other advanced features.

EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. EditPad Lite is extremely configurable. Many settings can be made per file type. This allows you to automatically enable coding features when you are editing source code, while enabling other writing features when you are editing other text files. EditPad Lite sports one of the most extensive search-and-replace features of any text editor. Quickly find the part of the file you want to edit. Automate much tedious editing with clever use of EditPad Lite's search-and-replace. EditPad Lite handles DOS/Windows, UNIX/Linux and Macintosh line breaks. Open and save text files encoded in Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32), any Windows code page, any ISO-8859 code page, and a variety of DOS, Mac, EUC, EBCDIC, and other legacy code pages. Convert files between any of these encodings.

EditPad Lite is free for personal use only. If you use EditPad Lite at home or at school for purposes that don't generate money, you can download the free version of EditPad Lite without any kind of payment or registration.
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.

EditPad Lite 7.6.4 changelog:

Improvements

  • Character map: Minimum cell size now scales on high DPI systems, keeping large character sets like Unicode legible.

  • File tabs are now better proportioned on high DPI systems.

  • Windows 10: Installer now deals with Controlled Folder Access more efficiently when Windows Defender is operational and ignores it when Windows Defender is not operational, ensuring a smoother installation on Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) and 1803 (April 2018 Update).

Bug fixes

  • File Types|Encoding: Default line break style is now used when opening an existing file that does not have any line breaks.

  • Saving an existing file failed if the file was in use by another application even when that application did not keep a write lock on the file.

  • Search: Highlighting regex matches with the Inverted Line By Line search option turned on did not work correctly (7.6.x only).

Download: EditPad Lite 7.6.4 | 9.1 MB (Free for Personal Use)
Download: EditPad Pro 7.6.4 | 11.9 MB (Shareware)
View: EditPad Lite Website | EditPad Pro Release Notes

File Details

File Size17.1 MB
LicenseFreeware
Operating SystemWindows 7/8/10/Vista/XP
Date AddedJuly 1, 2020
Total Downloads10,090
PublisherJust Great Software Co. Ltd.
HomepageEditPad Lite

Publisher's Description

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

RWW reviewed v7.3.8 on Jun 10, 2015

I can't believe it has been so long since this was rated! I use this a lot and it along with Irfanview it is one of the first things I put on a new build.
Where else can you get such a powerful little program and install it by hitting the trusted button with no fear of any crud riding in with it!

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Raton reviewed v7.0.2 on Jun 21, 2011

Been using v. 6.4.5 without dissatisfaction. Excellent product !

RWW reviewed v6.6.0 on Dec 9, 2009

Very best of its kind!

Morningdove reviewed v6.4.3 on Jan 31, 2009

EditPad Lite is THE notepad replacement. The features that mean the most to me are tabbed multi-document editing and the choice of fonts and colors.

DudeBoyz reviewed v6.4.3 on Aug 12, 2008

I started out using what is now EditPad Classic, and still use the 3.5.3 version of that app, the best 'Postcard-Ware' I've ever had. :)
This Lite version has replaced the Classic and it is still a very, very good little app.

TGB72 reviewed v6.4.1 on Mar 25, 2008

Very powerful text editor, the only complain that I've is that isn't possible to set a limit for tabs width. Really strange that after so many versions the author missed this detail.

MCHAL reviewed v6.4.0 on Mar 3, 2008

It's a nice editor, but I don't like the horizontal scroll bar. Can't hide it, even when Word Wrap is on for all kind of files. Does anyone out there happen to know where to go and deactivate/hide it?
Thanks.

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shamas reviewed v6.3.1 on Aug 17, 2007

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EditPad Lite is awesome. While most of the time I do use Notepad, I find EditPad Lite very useful when I am editing/viewing multiple pages or larger files.

RWW reviewed v6.3.1 on Aug 16, 2007

Excellent! Have used for awhile, has all the features I need.

zridling reviewed v6.3.0 on Jul 2, 2007

webdr, you are joking, right? All the major editors do a far better job encoding than editpad. Start with EmEditor and E Text Editor for two.

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RWW reviewed v7.3.8 on Jun 10, 2015

I can't believe it has been so long since this was rated! I use this a lot and it along with Irfanview it is one of the first things I put on a new build.
Where else can you get such a powerful little program and install it by hitting the trusted button with no fear of any crud riding in with it!

Raton reviewed v7.0.2 on Jun 21, 2011

Been using v. 6.4.5 without dissatisfaction. Excellent product !

RWW reviewed v6.6.0 on Dec 9, 2009

Very best of its kind!

Morningdove reviewed v6.4.3 on Jan 31, 2009

EditPad Lite is THE notepad replacement. The features that mean the most to me are tabbed multi-document editing and the choice of fonts and colors.

DudeBoyz reviewed v6.4.3 on Aug 12, 2008

I started out using what is now EditPad Classic, and still use the 3.5.3 version of that app, the best 'Postcard-Ware' I've ever had. :)
This Lite version has replaced the Classic and it is still a very, very good little app.

TGB72 reviewed v6.4.1 on Mar 25, 2008

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Very powerful text editor, the only complain that I've is that isn't possible to set a limit for tabs width. Really strange that after so many versions the author missed this detail.

MCHAL reviewed v6.4.0 on Mar 3, 2008

It's a nice editor, but I don't like the horizontal scroll bar. Can't hide it, even when Word Wrap is on for all kind of files. Does anyone out there happen to know where to go and deactivate/hide it?
Thanks.

shamas reviewed v6.3.1 on Aug 17, 2007

EditPad Lite is awesome. While most of the time I do use Notepad, I find EditPad Lite very useful when I am editing/viewing multiple pages or larger files.

RWW reviewed v6.3.1 on Aug 16, 2007

Excellent! Have used for awhile, has all the features I need.

zridling reviewed v6.3.0 on Jul 2, 2007

webdr, you are joking, right? All the major editors do a far better job encoding than editpad. Start with EmEditor and E Text Editor for two.

webdr reviewed v6.2.2 on Jun 14, 2007

This is the only text editor which has the most of text encodings, nearly every text encodings. I used a lot of text editors but none of them offer much encoding options like editpad. Yes some of them offer encodings but not as much as editpad. Also you can preview encoding results at different window.
It is so important to me this rich encoding feature, so if it is important for you too, then you shouldnt think much. Also it has easy to use menu options, and it is light on system sources.

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dejhantulip reviewed v6.0.2 on Aug 8, 2006

Very good software! If you really like NotePad, but just wish it had a 'little' more stuff... this is the right editor for you! Simple. Fast. 5/5

call2 reviewed v5.2.0 on Nov 30, 2003

I've used various versions of EditPad over the last 3years and I wouldn't use any other editor from choice. I really like the search/replace facility. A very good editor.

gammapooka reviewed v4.5.0 on Mar 8, 2002

I'm using this program for a while now, and i can say its my favorite editor ! :)