Notepad-X

Description

A clean Mac notepad for people who want to write things down without launching a word processor or installing a code editor. Why NotepadX? TextEdit is fine for a quick scribble but it doesn't know what a .swift or .py file is, has no tabs, and can't preview markdown. VS Code can do everything — and asks you to manage workspaces, install extensions, and accept a sidebar full of things you didn't ask for. There's a quiet gap in the middle. NotepadX fills it. It opens in under a second, restores the tabs you had last time, and treats whatever you type as a first-class document — code, markdown, plain text, all the same. What it does? • Tabs that remember. Every tab is its own document with its own scroll position and cursor. Closing the app doesn't lose your place. • Real syntax highlighting for the languages you actually use — Swift, Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, C/C++, JSON, YAML, HTML, CSS, SQL, and more. Colours match VS Code so anything you copy out still looks right. • Live markdown preview. Open a .md file and a rendered preview appears alongside the source. Tables, task lists, code blocks, links, blockquotes — full GFM. Switch the theme and both panes follow. • Find that highlights everything. ⌘F opens an Apple-style sheet with a match count, Match Case toggle, and yellow highlights painted on every occurrence in the editor. The current match shows in blue. Just like a browser. • Smart paired brackets. Type (, [, {, ", or ` — the closing character is there. Select text first to wrap it. Backspace inside an empty pair clears both halves. • Print and export. Print, Print Preview, or export markdown to PDF, Word (.rtf), or plain text. Plain-text export strips markdown markup cleanly. • The small things. Auto-trim trailing whitespace on save, external file-change detection with "Keep Mine" / "Reload from Disk", Recent Files menu, word wrap toggle, ⌘+/⌘- zoom, light and dark themes, line numbers, the modified-dot on the tab. What it isn't? Not a word processor — there's no bold/italic toolbar; use markdown if you want formatting. Not a code IDE — no autocomplete, no language servers, no debugger. Not a notes app — no tags, no notebooks, no graph view. Files go where you put them. The simplest place that knows how to highlight Python and render a markdown table.

VSCode Syntax Colorization Applied for both dark and light themes.

Information

Seller

Elysian Edge LLC

Category

Developer Tools

Version

3.14.0

Requires

iOS 13.0+

Size

2.3 MB

Age Rating

4+