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BowPad vs Kate

A side-by-side look at BowPad and Kate. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

BowPad

BowPad

Office & Productivity

BowPad is a lightweight plain text editor for Windows. It has a simple interface with basic editing features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, and word wrap. BowPad is free, open source software.

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Kate

Kate

Development

Kate is a free and open-source advanced text editor for Linux, UNIX, Windows and macOS. It provides syntax highlighting, project management, plugins and other features for programmers and developers.

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