Sakura Editor was started by Take (たけ), the original author, around 1998 and the source code was made public around 2000.

Development was carried out on SourceForge until May 2018, then it was moved to GitHub in June of the same year.

[2] Sakura Editor uses cream color as the default background.

In addition, it has basic functions such as multiple encodings, grep, and macros.

[3][4] It notably supports handling documents with mixed line breaks.