Free TextMate Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to TextMate for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best free Mac alternative is Visual Studio Code. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to TextMate and loads of them are free and available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Mac alternatives to TextMate are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Eclipse.

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  1. Visual Studio Code icon

    Visual Studio Code

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    Free and extensible code editor with built-in Git support, smart IntelliSense, integrated debugger, 30,000+ extensions, works offline, supports markdown and syntax highlighting for numerous languages.

    201 Visual Studio Code alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Snapcraft
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    Comments about Visual Studio Code as an Alternative to TextMate
    Goldmaster
    Negative
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    vs studio is an ide not a direct text editor such as notepad++ or textmate

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    • Most users think Visual Studio Code is a great TextMate alternative.

    • Visual Studio Code is the most popular Web-based, Mac & Linux alternative to TextMate.

    • Visual Studio Code is Free and ProprietaryTextMate is Free and Open Source
    • Visual Studio Code is CustomizableTextMate is not according to our users
  2. Sublime Text icon

    Sublime Text

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    Powerful editor blending code, markup, and prose editing with enhanced features like multi-tab selection, side-by-side definition viewing, and multiple selection tools for swift code navigation.

    191 Sublime Text alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about Sublime Text as an Alternative to TextMate
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    It support multi language and with a lot of feature with ton of package, it lightweight and fast

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    Sublime is a good alternative because you can still code like wow

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Sublime Text is a great TextMate alternative.

    • Sublime Text is Freemium and ProprietaryTextMate is Free and Open Source
    • Sublime Text is CustomizableTextMate is not according to our users
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    VSCodium

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    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

    196 VSCodium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Electron
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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    Comments about VSCodium as an Alternative to TextMate
    EGiGoka
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    It's a lightweight IDE, not a text editor, although can be used as one.

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    • VSCodium is Free and Open SourceTextMate is also Free and Open Source
    • VSCodium is Customizable and Privacy focusedTextMate is not according to our users
  5. Vim icon

    Vim

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    Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim.

    213 Vim alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    Comments about Vim as an Alternative to TextMate
    EGiGoka
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    It's CLI app, not an GUI one

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    • Vim is Free and Open SourceTextMate is also Free and Open Source
    • Vim is CustomizableTextMate is not according to our users
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    Eclipse

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    Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java IDE, but it is much more than that- Eclipse actually consists of over 60...

    147 Eclipse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    TextMate is a text editor while Eclipse is an IDE for developers.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    4

    One is an IDE, the other is text editor.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Eclipse is Free and Open SourceTextMate is also Free and Open Source
  7. Zed Editor icon

    Zed Editor

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    Blazing fast code editor offering real-time multi-user collaboration, language-aware syntax highlighting, integrated terminal, multi-buffers for tab-free editing, built-in Vim mode, searchable outline, AI coding assistance, advanced keyboard commands, and cross-platform support.

    87 Zed Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  9. Kate icon

    Kate

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    The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application.

    143 Kate alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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  10. Neovim icon

    Neovim

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    Refactored version of Vim, simplifying maintenance, improving developer contributions, and enabling new user interfaces. Features extensible plugin architecture, lightweight resource usage, syntax highlighting, no registration, ad-free, and distraction-free mode.

    105 Neovim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
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    GNU Emacs

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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    180 GNU Emacs alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
     

    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to TextMate.

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceTextMate is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is Customizable and Privacy focusedTextMate is not according to our users
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    gedit

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    Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

    191 gedit alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • GNOME
    • OpenSolaris
    • Flathub
    The Default look under GNOME with Adwaita
     
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    Lite XL

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    Lite XL is a lightweight text editor written mostly in Lua — it aims to provide something practical, pretty, small and fast, implemented as simply as possible; easy to modify and extend, or to use without doing either.

    59 Lite XL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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