# TextPad Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about TextPad Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Proofreading products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/234317/TextPad --- # TextPad Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 13, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) TextPad ## What is TextPad? Text editing software that helps conduct spelling checks, view multiple files, automatically align datta, and replace text across several open documents. ## What is TextPad used for? [Proofreading](https://www.capterra.com/proofreading-software/) Overall rating Based on 13 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for TextPad?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://www.heliossolutions.co/&name=TextPad) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### TextPad 4.6 (13) VS. [### Grammarly Business](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/) [4.7 (7,210)](https://www.capterra.com/p/170306/Grammarly-Business/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price $12 Per User, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.5 (13) Ease Of Use 4.8 (7,210) Value For Money 4.4 (8) Value For Money 4.5 (5,291) Customer Service 4.1 (8) Customer Service 4.5 (4,682) ## TextPad alternatives [QuillBot](https://www.capterra.com/p/233952/QuillBot/) [4.5 (155)](https://www.capterra.com/p/233952/QuillBot/reviews/) Starting price $2.91 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/233952/QuillBot/) [EmEditor](https://www.capterra.com/p/210331/EmEditor/) [4.5 (34)](https://www.capterra.com/p/210331/EmEditor/reviews/) Starting price $39.99 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 91% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/210331/EmEditor/) [LanguageTool](https://www.capterra.com/p/179761/LanguageTool/) [4.1 (49)](https://www.capterra.com/p/179761/LanguageTool/reviews/) Starting price $5.01 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 80% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/179761/LanguageTool/) [iThenticate](https://www.capterra.com/p/214475/iThenticate/) [4.7 (18)](https://www.capterra.com/p/214475/iThenticate/reviews/) Starting price $100.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/214475/iThenticate/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/234317/TextPad/alternatives/) ## Pricing Value for money 4.4 (8) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Value for money 4.4 (8) 4.4 Based on 8 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.1 (8) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.1 (8) 4.1 Based on 8 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.6 Based on 13 reviews Filter by rating 5(9) 4(3) 3(1) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent SZ Sona Z. Head of Customs Services Import and Export ### "Simple and straightforward text editor" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 July 2, 2023 Pros I like the old-school look, it is something I am used to work with. I use it for simple text edit of files used in our company software. Reliable tool. Cons It is hard to write some real cons as comparing TextPad to some heavier editors doesn't make much sense. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RB Rick B. Senior Consultant Government Administration ### "Great and Simple IDE" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 April 21, 2023 I have used TextPad for years to create Java classes for various projects that involve Actuate's (now OPenText) erdPro. Pros I am able to open multiple files of varying types at one for comparison, also, I can save "Workspaces" that allows me to re-open all the same files at a later time. Excellent, easy to use product that did not cost much to license. Cons I have not found anything to not like about TextPad. Alternatives considered [Notepad++](https://www.capterra.com/p/185965/Notepad/) Reasons for choosing TextPad Easy of use and multiple files in same working area Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Software Engineer Computer Software ### ""Well known Plain text editor specially for windows."" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 February 12, 2023 Very Light weight and very fast. It get launched very quickly. No lag in handling large files.Nice UI so that anyone can learn its functionalities very fast.Portable on almost all platform. Pros Textpad is a text editor which eases our work in coding and saves times. It is easy to use. Far better than Notepad++. Large file can accessed. Supports Multiple file at a same time to work. Helps in good management.Supports almost all file format like java, html, css, json etc.The syntax highlighting is also good so that it eases us to differentiate on every keywords and variables etc. Cons It works very good. Need work on user interface. Some times error detection leads problem. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. DP Denison P. Senior Research Executive Management Consulting ### "TextPad - old school intuitive text editing application" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 16, 2022 TextPad is an excellent application, which I recommend to my colleagues to install who ever works with huge dataset. Pros TextPad is a free application; TextPad can handles the huge data set effortlessly. TextPad comes handy when handling the regular expression and hex code in the huge data set. Cons TextPad is old school application, user interface is very old and outdated. TextPad is lacking in Plugins support for the code development. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AM Arun M. Project manager Information Services ### "Greattext editor" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 November 12, 2022 Great tool, it will be good if more functionalities are added like ability to open very large files Pros Very light weight,easy to navigate. Can handle multiple file types and syntax file configuration is quite easy Cons I don't have an option to open very large files in parts Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SR Sakshi R. Infrastructure engineer Information Technology and Services ### "Best Editor For large size files - TextPad" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 October 7, 2022 I use this software daily to open and edit large sized log files, it helps me alot to accomplish my daily tasks. Sometimes I use TextPad for comparing two files, also I am able to find and replace a particular word in a file without much efforts. Thankyou TextPad!! Best Editor tool.... Pros The best thing that I personally liked about TextPad is it's feasible to open very large sized files (gb) using TextPad. It provides more features than notepad and notepad++ We can easily do coding in any language (HTML, XML, JSON,YML) and it highlights the code which I like the most. Cons Only the thing which I don't like about TextPad is it's appearance, I like to work in dark mode on daily basis, so if TextPad can provide me dark mode feature than it would be great. Otherwise I don't have any reason for not using TextPad. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. KA Khush A. Researcher Research ### "Best text editor" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 June 28, 2022 Excellent. Pros I have been using TextPad on Windows and it has been the best text editor. Cons The interface of TextPad seems outdated, which is disgraceful. Switched from [Textmagic](https://www.capterra.com/p/147342/TextMagic/) Better overall package. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. MY Maizy Y. Music Director Religious Institutions ### "Pretty Good Text Editor" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 June 24, 2022 Overall, TextPad is a great tool, and one I've used for years. It's worthy mid-range competition for NotePad++, when you're looking for something on the lighter side. Pros TextPad is another text editor that falls somewhere in the mid-weight range. It'd a definite step up for NotePad, and works well for basic script writing. I really like the simple things that it does, like keeps your indentations when coding, and allowing multiple tabs. Cons Though simplicity is its strength, TextPad does leave much to be desired. There are few bells and whistles and anything more than basic script writing is hard to do. This tool is nothing like and IDE, which is more appropriate for development, but gets the job done for quick script drafting, without headache. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AC Anil C. Marketing Executive Marketing and Advertising ### "Text Editor from TextPad" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 2.0 2.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 6/10 June 18, 2022 I used Textpad many years ago to edit my code and lines, but I changed it because it does not offer any good features. Pros You can easily use this software, however it offers less feature than its competitors. Cons TextPad is old fashion, old dashboard editor that you can use in the past. There are other kind of editor that you can use. Switched from [IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/) IntelliJ has more feature than Textpad Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AG Abhishek G. Consultant Computer Software ### "Developers go to tool" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 10, 2022 Its an wonderful tool and is feature rich. Pros Its easy to use and helpful user interface. Features of color coding helps developers alot Cons Nothing that is not good in the textpad. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. 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