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, Linux and macOS.

Pineapple Notepad itself is free of charge, even for commercial purposes. Please review LICENSE file or the license content inside the application's "About" dialog 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!

Features

• Cross Platform
• Text Encoding Detection and Conversion
• Show All Characters (Non-Printable Characters Included)
• Session Restore
• Hi-DPI Support
• Dark and Custom Theme Support
• Fully Customizable Toolbar
• Macro Recording
• Change History Indicator on Left Margin
• Smart Highlighting
• Folder Pane
• Interval Backup
• User Defined Language Support

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 ko-fi post for details. If you're interested, please use the following links to support this project, or directly support this project via itch.io (this page).

Sponsor Benefits

Before the goal is reached, if you support Pineapple Notepad for equals to 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. All listed benefits below only apply to sponsors who donate before we reach the Open Source goal.

Tier 0: 2 USD

• Get a key to unlock sponsor features in a free-of-charge public release.
  • You will receive a redeem code so you can getting your Sponsor License key. (redeem your key) (looking for help?)
• Get credited in the next single release’s blog post.

Tier 1: 10 USD

• All benefits of Tier 0
  
• Get credited in at least the next 10 releases, in the application’s About dialog’s “Special Thanks” tab.
  
• Get access to all sponsor editions of Pineapple Notepad from itch.io, including pre-released builds.
  

Tier 2: 35 USD

• All benefits of Tier 1
• Get source-code access for auditing or build-from-source purpose.

Note about crediting (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.

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

itch.io (this page)

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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.