Pineapple Notepad

Pineapple Notepad aims to be a simple, lightweight, and easy to use notepad application that can be a cross-platform alternative to Notepad++. It's based on Scintilla, Qt and KDE Framework, available on Windows, Linux¹ and macOS².

Pricing

Pineapple Notepad itself is free of charge, even for commercial purposes. Please review LICENSE file for details.

Note that it's currently closed source. See the "Open Source Goal" section if you want to support Pineapple Notepad and make it open source. Please consider donate!

Feature Comparation Table

Feature	Pineapple Notepad	Notepad++	Notepad Next	Notepad--	Kate
Open Source	❔3	✅	✅	❌	✅
Cross Platform	✅	❌ (Win-only)	✅	✅	✅
Text Encoding	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Show All Characters	✅	✅	⚠️4	⚠️4	❌5
Session Restore	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Hi-DPI Support	✅	⚠️6	✅	⚠️6	✅
Dark Theme Support	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Side-by-Side View	❌7	✅	⚠️8	❌	✅
Customizable Toolbar	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅
Macro Recording	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Change History	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Smart Highlight 9	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Editor Engine	Scintilla	Scintilla	Scintilla	QScintilla	KTextEdit

Open Source Goal

Pineapple Notepad is currently not an open source project, but the goal is to make Pineapple Notepad open source. I've set-up a $150 Ko-fi goal that Pineapple Notepad will be released as an Open-Source project if the goal is reached. Please read this post for details. If you're interested, please use the following links to support this project.

Sponsor Benefits

Before the goal is reached, if you support Pineapple Notepad for equial or more than $10, you can be credited within the application's About dialog as a kickstart supporter.

Please read the following details for sponsor benefits and possible restrictions.

Details

All listed benefits below only apply to sponsors who donate before we reach the Open Source goal.

Tier 1: 10 USD

• Get pre-released builds of Pineapple Notepad.
• You (individual) will be credited within the application's About dialog as a kickstart supporter.
  • The name will be kept for at least 10 releases, after that, the name might be moved a standalone THANKS file in the source repository.
  • Optional email and/or home page could be provided.
  • Restriction applies (Please reach out if you have any questions or not sure if it applies to you):
    • The name, email and/or link to your home page should not contain political content, any emoji or other contents might cause me trouble.

Tier 2: 35 USD

• All benefits of Tier 1
• Get full source code of Pineapple Notepad that allows you build it from source or audit it.
• You (company/organization) will be credited within the application's About dialog as a sponsor.
  • The name will be kept for at least 10 releases, after that, the name might be moved a standalone THANKS file in the source repository.
  • Optional email and/or home page could be provided.
  • Restriction applies (Please reach out if you have any questions or not sure if it applies to you):
    • The name, email and/or link to your home page should not contain political content, any emoji or other contents might cause me trouble.
    • Gambling, blockchain, adult content and/or other similar contents are not allowed.

If you have questions about sponsor benefits, please reach out to me by creating an issue or drop me a message on Ko-fi or any other form that can be reached.

Funding

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License

Pineapple Notepad is released under Pineapple Notepad End User License Agreement.

This section will be updated once the Open Source goal is reached.

Footnotes

1. Before reaching the Open Source sponsor goal, it will only available on debian 13 and deepin 25 amd64 version. Please consider become a sponsor to make me be able to reach the Open Source goal so it will be available on more distros and make porting possible. ↩

2. Available since 0.2.0. Bundle will not be signed. ↩

3. Currently not open-sourced. Planned to be Open Source once Open Source Sponsor Goal is reached (please consider donate!). ↩

4. Some non-printable characters are not able to be shown. ↩ ↩²

5. I created an add-on for this feature, but currently showing line ending is not possible to implement. ↩

6. Some components have known issues with Hi-DPI support. ↩ ↩²

7. Not planned in the initial release, might be added in the future. ↩

8. Available as custom-tailored docking system. ↩

9. Highlight selected word in the editor. ↩