Following coverage last month of an unofficial Mac port of Notepad++ that the original developer had denounced for trademark infringement, the dispute has now been resolved with a name change.
The macOS port was previously released by Andrey Letov under the name Notepad++ without permission. Don Ho created the original Windows Code Editor in 2003 and had publicly objected to the unofficial app’s use of his trademark and inclusion of his name and biography on its author page. After settling the dispute, the app was later renamed Nextpad++.
Nextpad++’s site has been completely updated and clearly states that the app is an “open source, community-agnostic port of Notepad++ to macOS.” Elsewhere, Letov’s About page describes the project as a Mac port of the Notepad++ GPL codebase, built on Objective-C++, Scintilla, and Cocoa, and delivered as a universal binary for Apple silicon and Intel Macs. The app also has a new icon.
Names aside, it seems Bold FireballJohn Gruber of is far from charmed by the result, describing the application as “ungodly” and suggesting that the rapid port could only have been built with AI ambiance coding tools. Site development says development began on March 10.
Have you tried Nextpad++ for Mac? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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