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Developer Calls Mac Notepad++ Clone Trademark Violation

5/5/2026

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U.S. developer Don Ho denounced Andrey Letov’s unauthorized macOS version of Notepad++ as a trademark violation.
Letov’s site used the name “Notepad++ for Mac” and the chameleon logo, misleading users.
Ho said the trademark use caused confusion, legal risk, and that he reported the site to Cloudflare.
Letov renamed the app Nextpad++ for Mac, swapped the logo for a frog, and moved the domain to nextpad.org.

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U.S. developer Don Ho denounced Andrey Letov’s unauthorized macOS version of Notepad++ as a trademark violation.
Letov’s site used the name “Notepad++ for Mac” and the chameleon logo, misleading users.
Ho said the trademark use caused confusion, legal risk, and that he reported the site to Cloudflare.
Letov renamed the app Nextpad++ for Mac, swapped the logo for a frog, and moved the domain to nextpad.org.