

CotEditor
Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
Features
- macOS-like
- Colored Text
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- File Versioning
- Support for scripting
- Support for MarkDown
- No Coding Required
- Code Formatting
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Syntax Highlighting
- WYSIWYG HTML Editor
- Portable
- Batch Editing
- Works Offline
CotEditor News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- kdsfoiukvmko liked CotEditor
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POX added CotEditor as alternative to Janus Text Editor
vampiriostudio added CotEditor as alternative to Vampirio Code
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What is CotEditor?
Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.
Scriptable: Make your own macro in your favorite language, whether it is Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, UNIX shell, AppleScript or JavaScript.
Outline Menu: Extract specified lines with the predefined syntax, and you can jump to the corresponding line.
Powerful Find & Replace: Super powerful find and replace using the ICU regular expression engine.
Split Editor: Split a window into multiple panes to see different parts of your document at the same time.
Incompatible Characters: Check and list-up the characters in your document that cannot convert into the desired encoding.
CJK Language Friendly: Estimate various file encodings accurately, toggle to vertical text mode and keep its line height correctly.
Open Source: CotEditor is developed as an open-source project that allows anyone to contribute. (GitHub https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor)












Comments and Reviews
This is great if you're looking for an amazing simple text/code editor! Beautifully designed too.
Its really good and fast alternative to texedit when you don’t want to fully load a big editor like Vscode. Its fast and does a lot. Like it!
The application requires macOS 10.15 or later.
There are many releases at github. Simply choose the one for your version of mac. I'm using macOSX version 10.14.6 (18G9216) with CotEditor Version 3.9.7 (437).