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CryptoPAD Offers A File Encryptor, Text Editor & Cipher In One Package

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A substantial number of people use Notepad or other similar text editors for quickly taking notes in Windows. It all sounds okay to rely on these as far as it’s about saving notes that are not sensitive in nature, but when it comes to storing something a little more confidential and private, plain text editors don’t quite cut it for the job. CryptoPAD is a Windows application that allows you to take and save notes protected with advanced encryption algorithms. Along with a feature-rich text editor, it houses a file encryption tool, a checksum calculator, and a unique Vingenere Cipher, all in a single package. Read More

AkelPad Is A Multi-Panel, Less Cluttered Alternative To Notepad++

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If you prefer to stick around with Windows Notepad for your note-taking needs, you might be missing on a lot of things that third-party text editors provide. Yes, I’m talking about various feature-rich alternatives like Notepad++ and its truckload of plugins that we have covered so far. If you’re looking for an app that looks similar to Notepad while providing some of the flexibility and control of Notepad++, AkelPad is worth giving a shot. It’s an open-source text editor for Windows that surpasses the default Notepad in many ways. Its feature-laden design is quite simple yet provides plentiful options to tinker with your text files and write code in an effective manner. It also boasts  tabbed view that enables you to work with multiple text files in the same window, instead of opening each in its separate window. Read More

ModernNote Is A Multi-Format Modern UI Text Editor For Windows 8 & RT

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Windows 8 comes with tons of useful features and apps, and while Microsoft's latest OS includes Modern UI versions of many of them including Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer and Calculator among others, Notepad has unfortunately been neglected in this regard, and still looks like its antecedents. Even though most of you might not be seeking a metro version of Notepad, those with Windows RT devices must be missing it to jot down their notes without entering the desktop mode. ModernNote is a Windows Store app that - as the name suggests - aims to get rid of this nuisance by providing users with a feature-rich text editor with a touch-friendly Modern UI. Read More

NeechPad Is A Simple Rich Text Editor For Windows With Tab Support

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Microsoft usually rotates the generation wheel of its Windows operating system every 3 years. Not only does the company bring core enhancements to the OS related to its security and performance, but at times, it revamps a few native utilities as well. Take Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer for instance; both these apps are more feature-rich now than they ever used to be. One application that has remained quite static in terms of development is Notepad. Even though it's quite handy considering what it does, the app has barely changed since Windows 95. It’s still a basic notes taking utility with a limited feature-set. While Windows also offers WordPad for editing rich text files, its interface isn't as minimal as that of Notepad. This is where third-party note-taking applications like NeechPad come to the rescue. Read More

Easily Tweak & Edit EPUB Books In Your Favorite Windows Text Editor

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EPUB is one of the most famous formats used by ebook publishers for publishing their books on multiple platforms. The reason for its popularity lies in the fact that it is designed for reflowable content, allowing the text to be optimally rendered by the reader software on any display device. The format is natively supported by all modern ebook readers such as Amazon Kindle series and Barnes & Noble Nook series, and a wide range of ebook reader apps available for PC, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone and many other operating systems also have EPUB support. However, the tool we have today does not focus on reading EPUB files. Tweak EPUB is a portable application for Windows that enables you to edit EPUB files and save the edited versions while retaining all the original formatting. What's even better, it lets you perform the editing in your favorite text editor. Read More

Create & Edit Password-Protected Text Files With NoteBook For Windows

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Notepad is probably the most simple yet useful Windows utility that’s been accompanying the OS since its inception. While it works great for some quick notes-taking or opening various plain text files for basic editing, at times you need to take confidential notes for which you want an additional layer of security in form of a password. NoteBook is a text editor for Windows that delivers the password protection feature, so you may encrypt any confidential notes without worrying about your privacy. The application allows you to save the notes as PPTF (Password Protected Text Files) with a password of your choice. The application also boasts an auto-save feature that automatically saves the current note after every 5 seconds to make sure you don't lose any information in case of a crash. Read More

MetroTextual Is A Minimal, Elegant Text Editor With Syntax Highlighting

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If you’re a programmer, web developer or even a casual user looking for a simple and minimal text editor that keeps the UI out of your way while writing code or plain text documents, Metrotextual is worth giving a shot. This easy-to-use text editor lets you do all your coding in an aesthetically pleasing interface that is bound to make you ditch notepad for good. While it is not exactly a very feature-rich program, that’s exactly what it boasts; lightning fast performance over number of options and no compromise on minimalism. In addition to being a basic text editor, the application can come really handy for software developers due its Scintilla-powered syntax highlighting for several programming, markup, scripting and database query languages. Read More

Textilus: Feature-Rich iPad Text Editor With Dropbox & Evernote Sync

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According to some rumors, Microsoft will release MS Office for Android and iOS early next year. Until that happens though, there are some pretty great word processing apps available in the App Store, specially if you own an iPad. Apparently, the iPad’s large screen is a real magnet for developers who want to publish text editing tools. Textilus has been around for long enough to enjoy a decent user base on the iPad. From comprehensive formatting options to support for various cloud and note-taking services, Textilus has it all, making it worth the $4.99 you'll have to shell out for it. Read More

Extract Specific Words From Text, Remove Duplicates & Punctuation With SWEAT

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If you have to extract a particular word or phrase from a large amount of text or make some changes to its formatting, doing it manually can be quite frustrating and take up a lot of your time. Spending hours going through a large article, looking for those double spaces and wrong letter cases is sure to be a tedious task. Working with large text files to perform editing tasks similar to the ones we just mentioned require special features not found in common text editors. Today, we are bringing you an application called SWEAT (Search Word Extractor Tool) that allows you to extract a keyword or a phrase from large amounts of text, or perform other advanced editing functions such as removing multiple spaces, unnecessary punctuation or a custom list of works, only showing words repeated more than a particular number of times, fixing mIxEd cASe etc. More on SWEAT after the jump. Read More

Wisdom Is A Word Processor For iOS With Indexing & Dropbox Support

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Having a slew of features is something that many iOS apps boast of but when it comes to text editors, too many bells and whistles can make the app excessively complicated, thus decreasing its efficiency and utility. After all, if you wanted to have a comprehensive word processor, you will probably prefer working on your computer; the whole point of editing and creating documents on an iPhone or iPad is to quickly do it on the go in an interface that doesn't get into your way. Wisdom truly adheres to this wise philosophy of keeping things simple. It has a neat-looking interface, and there are some really useful keyboard shortcuts. To keep your documents available to you at all times, Wisdom supports Dropbox syncing. Furthermore, you can quickly navigate to any paragraph in the document with a single tap from a special menu. Read More

Maxjournal For iPad: Maintain Your Journal & Back It Up To The Cloud

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We have covered a lot of journal apps for iOS, but we keep coming across different new ones that bring something refreshing to this seemingly narrow area of app development. The latest contender to make its presence known to us is Maxjournal for iPad. Although the app is a bit limited due to its unavailability for iPhone and iPod touch, it is still good enough to merit a review here. So, what makes Maxjournal different from other iOS apps of its kind? It has a lot of fancy features, like customizable backgrounds and multiple fonts for entries in your journals, but the best thing about Maxjournal is the fact that it lets you create a backup of your journal, and you can import entries from your backup pretty easily, too. Maxjournal lets its users create as many separate journals as they want, and you can add up to 30 photos to each entry of all journals. Read More

Growly Write: Free Text Editor That Retains Formatting Of Imported Files [Mac]

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Text editors, for the most part, have to be feature rich, or at the very least, provide a minimum number of features to make themselves useful. Too many features, and users might have trouble figuring everything out. It can also lead to a huge clutter of controls that you will never use. The default text editor in Mac, TextEdit, supports some very basic features, and many users still opt to find other text editing tools because this default app doesn’t meet their requirements. If, for any reason, you aren’t satisfied with TextEdit, Growly Write is a free Mac app that is a text editing tool with a very reasonable number of features, sans a gorgeous UI. The app’s features cover the basics for editing text, and allow you to open most common formats like RTF, DOC, DOCX etc, without losing the document’s original formatting. Read More

Storybook: Helper App For Writers That Stores Scene & Character Details

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Not everyone might be as creative as Christopher Nolan or J.R.R Tolkien, but with meticulous planning and the right set of tools, we can at least come up with mesmerizing storylines that we all aspire. Great stories are intertwined with deep character building, memorable plots, fantastic locations, and most importantly, proper connection among all the aforementioned elements. If you are a writer, novelist or someone who pens stories just as a hobby, you must have an idea that, in order to tell readers of what’s happening in a particular scene or a chapter of your book, you should understand it yourself first. Any overlooked element in your novel or book can mislead to various plot holes, which itself leads to unexpected criticism. To overcome this very reason, one comprehensive story writing software you can probably try is Storybook. The application is open source, and contains various features that one requires for all kind of story writing. It lets you work on your project, in a scene by scene manner, meanwhile tagging various characters, locations and other factors to an on going scene. You can store information regarding chapters, parts, scenes etc, to get an overview of where the actual plot is headed. Read More

Bubbles: Create, Edit & Share Your Thoughts via Personalized Letters

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Ever felt the need to send handwritten personalized notes to someone on the internet? Usually, you would write a document, scan it and send the documents using your favorite email service, as an attachment. For sharing, you would turn towards an appropriate social media website to create an impact. Bubbles, an online application, lets you achieve all this with just a click. Just choose the privacy level of your document, draft, letter etc., and from the comfort of your browser, you can publish rich documents with pictures, drawings, signatures or collages. In addition, you can associate yourself with like-minded people to share, plan and organize ideas, connected to their respective organizations with easier access details. Read More

Typ-O: Mac OS X Text Editor With Grammar Check & Next Word Prediction

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Spell check, as we’ve often said before, is a life saver in many situations, and perhaps that's why it exists universally in Mac OS X. Another equally useful feature, though not natively present in OS X, is grammar check. Normally, what you have to work with is a spell check and auto-correct feature that will correct those little typos you make, but can seriously alter the meaning of a sentence if it doesn’t predict a word correctly. Typ-O is a three-in-one Mac app with a text editor that creates and saves files in RTF format, a spelling and grammar checker, and a quick typing tool that allows you to insert a word via the function keys on your keyboard, so that you don’t have to type them out. Typ-O supports both American and UK English, and German. It adjusts its suggestions and the degree of corrections it needs to make, based on your language skills. Read More

SynWrite Is A Portable Syntax Editor With Tree Structure View For Code

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Previously, we have gone over text editors the likes of Editra, a cross platform editor, and InType, an editor with a tabbed interface. Today we shall review and compare another advanced text and programming editor called SynWrite. It supports source code programming in over 70 languages (which include JAVA, C++, C, Cobol, Pascal, Perl, HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, etc.) and writing in over 80 file extensions (TXT and extensions allocated to the languages it supports). Like InType, it is a TDI-based interface and thus can open multiple files in new tabs. It supports a tree panel that keeps track of all code groups and provides links to them as well as a clipboard panel that stores all instances of copied text which can then be selected and used as you wish. It can also expand and collapse (i.e. show and hide) portions of the written code as you wish.

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MobiText Is A Basic, Themeable Document Editor With Ribbon UI

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Windows comes with the WordPad utility that provides sufficient options for most basic word processing needs. However, if you seek an application that goes beyond what WordPad has up its sleves - providing more features and options then a third-party software is the way to go. Just recently, we came across Document.Editor (reviewed here), a feature-rich application that we found to be a great alternative to WordPad. Developed by DyNiForm, MobiText is yet another similar utility that includes a handful of features to help you quickly create different types of documents such as reports, drafts, letters, resumes, memos etc. Similar to Document.Editor, it offers a ribbon-based interface. That's not all; the editor is skinnable as well (in case you rapidly get board of same UI looks). It comes packed with several different themes (Black, Blue, Metro, Windows 7 Style, Red and more) that you can easily switch between. As far as editing features are concerned, it provides you with tools sufficient for basic needs, such as copy, edit, cut, print, save, print preview, text color, spell check, indent and more. Read past the break for details. Read More

PilotEdit Lite: Advanced Text Editor That Can Handle Files Larger Than 50 GB

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There are a host of text editors out there for Windows. Simpler text editing tasks can be performing using the default Windows Notepad, while for the complex ones, you can use Notepad++, an open-source text editor massively reviewed (and favored) on AddictiveTips. Previously, we covered a text editor for Windows, called Intype, which lets you perform advanced tasks using a host of sample code modules of several programming languages, including HTML, CSS, C, C++. Java, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL and a lot more. Today, we have another text editor called PilotEdit Lite, which doesn’t provide options to work with as many programming languages as Intype, but has a more focused approach. It works as a Text Editor, HTML editor, PHP editor, Java editor and Hex editor. The software can handle massive files - even those larger than 50 GB - and offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting. More on the application past the break. Read More

SwipeSelection Allows Easier, Gesture-Based Text Selection In iOS [Cydia]

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There isn’t much wrong with text selection in iOS, but needless to say, it could've been much more convenient. The area where the text to be selected is located, is usually hidden under your finger as you strive to move the cursor to an appropriate point. Also, users have to rely on the little magnifying glass that appears while seeking within text, and that can get a bit disorienting at times. This problem has been countered by a certain developer from the Cydia store, whose new tweak, SwipeSelection, makes use of gestures to make text selection really convenient for jailbroken iOS users. You don’t have to play a tedious game every time you want to edit a single alphabet in a whole paragraph once you have SwipeSelection installed on your iPhone or iPad. Read More

NickWrite: A Smart Text Editor For WP7 That Learns From Your Typing Habits

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Out of the many reasons that have made me a fan of Windows Phone 7, the stock Messaging app has got to be somewhere near the top of the list. I am not talking about just the Facebook integration it offers (although that is quite awesome). Other things such as the great keyboard and non-intrusive spellcheck make it perfect for someone who texts a lot. I never thought any update, or app, can better WP7’s stock text editing, but NickWrite seems to have done just that! The app is a simple text editor on the surface, but its distinction lies in its ability to learn from the way you type! Of course, you can add new words to WP7’s own text editor’s dictionary, but NickWrite does everything automatically. It essentially starts guessing a sentence as soon as you begin typing it in, and at times, you will be able to finish a sentence without having to type anything after the first couple of words! Sound familiar? The app's predictive abilities have a lot in common with popular Android keyboard replacement SwiftKey X. Read on for details. Read More