Ganksoft · App
nanopad
A modern, fast, portable Win32 text editor in the spirit of classic Notepad.
nanopad is a small, portable, MIT-licensed open-source Win32 text editor in the spirit of the classic Windows Notepad. Simple text editing with no accounts, no telemetry, no clutter. It is a single executable that drops anywhere and keeps all of its settings in an .ini file right beside it.
Features
- Modern editing – Find & Replace (match case, replace all), Go To Line, word wrap, zoom via Ctrl+mouse wheel or Ctrl+Plus/Minus, and printing with headers, footers, and page numbers.
- Dark & light themes – follows the Windows system theme automatically with a manual override; the title bar, menus, scrollbars, and status bar are all fully themed.
- Smart file handling – encoding detection (UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM, UTF-16 LE/BE, ANSI), drag-and-drop to open, automatic reload when a file changes on disk, and memory-mapped I/O for large files.
- Crash & shutdown recovery – autosaves unsaved text and restores it after a crash, power loss, or a Windows Update reboot.
- DPI-aware – fonts, menus, and the status bar scale correctly, even when you drag the window between monitors.
- Notepad replacement – optionally redirect every
notepad.exelaunch to nanopad (reversible), add it to the Windows “Open with” menu, or add an “Edit with nanopad” entry to the Explorer right-click menu. - Truly portable – one exe with settings stored in
nanopad.ini; no registry writes for app settings.
Screenshots
nanopad in dark mode
nanopad in light mode