Just start typing — it autosaves in your browser · no login · tabs, line numbers & syntax highlighting when you need them
Type anything and it saves in your browser — no login, no install, works offline. Add line numbers, tabs and syntax highlighting when you need them, which also makes it a solid Notepad++ alternative.
This online notepad is a fast, distraction-free text and code editor that runs entirely in your browser — no install, no signup, and no upload. Open the page and start typing immediately. Everything you write is auto-saved to your own device using local browser storage, so your notes are still here the next time you visit. Nothing is ever sent to a server, which makes it a genuinely private place to draft code, jot quick notes, or clean up text.
Under the hood it uses the same CodeMirror engine that powers many professional editors, giving you real syntax highlighting, line numbers, bracket matching, code folding, find & replace, multiple tabs, and one-click code formatting. It works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Chromebook, iPad, Android, and any modern browser — your browser is the editor.
People reach for it as an online notepad with autosave, an online scratchpad for throwaway notes, a notepad that works offline on a flight, or an online notepad with no login when they just need a blank page fast. It doubles as a quick online JSON formatter, a place to draft Markdown, clean up messy text, or sketch a snippet before pasting it back into your project.
A blank page in one click that grows into a code editor when you need one.
The editor is ready the moment the page loads. No account, no install — every keystroke is saved in your browser.
Choose one from the dropdown, or open a file and it is detected automatically, to switch on syntax highlighting.
Format code with Shift+Alt+F, find & replace with Ctrl+F, or run any command from the palette with Ctrl+Shift+P.
Ctrl+S saves to disk; copy, download, export HTML/PDF or share a link. Your tabs also stay here for next time.
Close the tab whenever you like. Open the page again in the same browser and every tab reopens where you left off — even offline.
A real CodeMirror editor under a plain notepad surface.
The shortcuts you know from Notepad++, VS Code and Sublime.
Clean up pasted text without leaving the page.
Enough structure for real work, still zero setup.
A language model that runs on your own GPU.
The notepad saves as you type. Every tab is written to your browser's local storage the moment you change it, so a crash, a closed window or a dropped connection costs you nothing — open the page again on the same device and browser and every tab reopens where you left off. Because the text lives on your device and not on a server, it stays private; it only disappears if you clear this site's browser data. Use it as a scratchpad for pasting and cleaning text, a place to hold something between apps, or a notebook you keep open all day. After the page has loaded it keeps working offline, on a flight or a bad connection.
Pick a language, or open a file, and the notepad becomes a browser-based code editor with syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, JSON, SQL, KQL, Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, YAML, Markdown and more. You get line numbers, bracket matching, code folding and one-click formatting — paste messy JSON, choose JSON and press Shift+Alt+F and it is pretty-printed, which makes it a quick online JSON formatter; the same works for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. HTML and Markdown can be previewed live next to the source and exported to a styled HTML file or printed to PDF.
Editing feels like a desktop editor. Ctrl+F opens a Notepad++-style find & replace with match case, whole word, regular expressions and capture groups such as $1; every match is highlighted and counted, and Replace All is a single undo step. Ctrl+Shift+P opens a VS Code-style command palette, Ctrl+D adds the next match to a multi-cursor selection, and Sublime-style shortcuts duplicate (Ctrl+Shift+D), delete (Ctrl+Shift+K), move and join lines.
The Transform menu is a small text toolbox: sort lines alphabetically or numerically, reverse them, remove duplicate or blank lines, change case, trim trailing whitespace, Base64 or URL encode and decode, and format or minify JSON. Each transform works on your selection, or on the whole document when nothing is selected. To see what changed between two versions, open them in two tabs and press ⇆ Diff: added, removed and changed lines are colour-coded, the exact characters that differ are highlighted, and both panes scroll together.
In Chrome and Edge you can open a whole folder from your computer: a file tree appears, and Ctrl+S saves straight back to the original file after the browser asks your permission. Sessions (File → Sessions) save a named set of tabs — “work”, “scratch”, “blog drafts” — to load again later, and Alt+Shift+T reopens any of the last 20 closed tabs.
Press Ctrl+Shift+A or open the AI menu to summarize, fix grammar, rewrite in a formal or casual tone, explain, or continue your text — or type your own instruction. It runs a real language model in your browser through WebLLM and WebGPU. The model you pick downloads once (roughly 350 MB to 2.2 GB) and then works fully offline, with no account, no API key and no usage limit; nothing you write is sent anywhere. It needs a desktop browser with WebGPU, such as Chrome, Edge or Brave.
The notepad is available in English and, through the 🌐 button, in Dutch, French, German and Spanish; your notes are the same in every version, because they are stored in your browser. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Chromebook, iPad and Android in any modern browser. It is free, needs no login, and never uploads your notes. This notepad is independent and not affiliated with the Notepad++ project.
| Feature | This notepad | Notepad++ | VS Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runs in any browser | Yes | No (Windows app) | No (install) |
| Install required | None | Yes | Yes |
| Works on phone / tablet | Yes | No | Limited |
| Auto-save locally | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Account / login | Never | No | Optional |
| Price | Free | Free | Free |
For heavy projects a full desktop IDE still wins, but when you just need to open something now — on any machine, with zero setup — a browser-based editor is hard to beat. It's ideal for quick snippets, interview coding, Markdown drafts, config files, and scratch notes.
Part of a collection of free, no-signup browser tools. A few that pair well with the notepad: