Safe Pad

1.2 for Windows

Safe Pad is a free and open source text editor app developed by Stephen Haunts for Windows, it's comprehensive, advanced and attractive.

The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.

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A text editor with awesome security features and encryption

SafePad is a simple free text editor that lets you encrypt your documents using the industry standard FIPS Compliant AES encryption algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard). To protect your document you can provide 2 passwords (the 2nd password is optional). Passwords have always been a problem when it comes to security as users tend to pick a password that is easy for them to remember. This also means that the password is most likely easy to crack.

By using 2 passwords and performing multiple iterations of encryption, it makes it much harder to crack the passwords. If someone manages to crack password 1, all they will get back is encrypted text, so it would be very hard to them to know they have cracked that password.

Picking strong yet easy to remember passwords is essential when protecting your files. If your passwords are easy to guess or can be cracked by a brute force search then you are leaving your data open to being stolen. Here is a good article over at wolfram.org with some good advice on picking strong passwords.

Features of Safe Pad

  • Browse to a link when a URL is highlighted in the document.
  • Drag and drop files from explorer into your document so they get encrypted too.
  • Encrypt your documents using AES encryption based on the strength of 2 passwords.
  • Low contrast themes to make the text harder to read on the screen if people are looking over your shoulder.
  • On Screen Keyboard that allows you to enter the password with a mouse or touch screen. This was requested by people who were worried about key loggers on their computer.
  • Password entry form has a password strength indicator.
  • Quickly minimize the application by pressing the Escape key if someone is looking at your screen.
  • Rich text editor with familiar word processing formatting controls and font selection.
  • White Out Theme that turns all the text white when you press CTRL 2. This is in-case you spot someone looking at your screen and you want to quickly make the text invisible.

Compatibility and License

Safe Pad is available for free and released under the open source GPLv2 license on Windows from text editors. The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. The source code for Safe Pad should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software.

What version of Windows can Safe Pad run on?

Safe Pad can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.


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Safe Pad has been picked by our editors as very good.
Safe Pad has been tested for viruses and malware.
We have tested Safe Pad 1.2 against malware with several different programs. We certify that this program is clean of viruses, malware and trojans.