A simple, portable Win32 text editor in the spirit of classic Windows Notepad.
Nanopad is a lightweight Notepad replacement written in pure Win32 C++.
Features include dark/light mode with system theme following, font selection,
Find & Replace, printing, encoding detection (UTF-8, UTF-16, ANSI),
per-monitor DPI scaling, and portable settings via INI file.
Single EXE, no installer, no runtime dependencies.
Nanopad 1.3.2
Changed
- Edit and View menus are reorganized to better match Notepad. Select All moved to the bottom of the Edit menu, and the zoom commands moved into a View > Zoom submenu.
Fixed
- Printing now wraps lines that are wider than the page at word boundaries instead of cutting them off at the right edge.
- Print margins are now a true 1 inch from the edge of the paper on all sides. Previously they were measured from the printer's printable area, and the right margin was ignored.
Download
Extract the zip and run nanopad.exe. Settings are stored in nanopad.ini next to the executable.
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Platform│Download
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x64 │Nanopad-1.3.2-x64.zip
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ARM64 │Nanopad-1.3.2-arm64.zip
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Install via winget
winget install Ganksoft.Nanopad
SHA256
460571767B9BED0AEDF9D52B41774D2348A6FE3829816F6C409E36DE8A78B948 nanopad.exe (x64)
20D73A279B3D287A8867097BB8C73157C8EFE1EAA38C147784AE7668E29CF657 Nanopad-1.3.2-x64.zip
9BA10DB575105B89DB1527B04D2A6AC791C335AF59B2E8CB7176C0F7344EE2A4 nanopad.exe (arm64)
A394274BB8CEDDFAB1569351E7B8048473574569A4FBA9520CB1425DA6A513B7 Nanopad-1.3.2-arm64.zip
Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.3.2
| Publisher | Ganksoft LLC |
|---|---|
| Author | Brian Peek |
| Version | 1.3.2 |
| Release date | 2026-10-16 |
| License | MIT |
| Installer type | zip |
| Architecture | x64, arm64 |
| Package ID | Ganksoft.Nanopad |
Install Nanopad from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):
winget install --id=Ganksoft.Nanopad -e
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