Metapad
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Jan 10, 2026first mention
Aug 24, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There is a more recently maintained fork here https://github.com/sobitcorp/metapad”
“For a long time I used metapad as a notepad replacement”
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“This was already better when the latest from MS was still called "* XP"”
“Use MetaPad - like Notepad.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- Tiny, fast Windows Notepad replacement (source available) 1 mention
- MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID 1 mention
- Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 1 mention
Also written as metapad, MetaPad. Data: metapad.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“There is a more recently maintained fork here https://github.com/sobitcorp/metapad”
“For a long time I used metapad as a notepad replacement”
“I used to overwrite c:\windows\notepad.exe with Metapad.”
“This was already better when the latest from MS was still called "* XP"”
“Use MetaPad - like Notepad.”