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CotEditor

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Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

version 4 released 2020-11-14

License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • JP flagJapan

Platforms

  • Mac
version 4 released 2020-11-14 ,
version 4 released 2020-11-14
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version 4 released 2020-11-14
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5 / 5 Avg rating (3)
40likes
3comments
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Properties

  1.  Support for Themes
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  macOS-like
  2.  Colored Text
  3.  File Versioning
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  7.  Dark Mode
  8.  No Coding Required
  9.  Syntax Highlighting
  10.  Works Offline

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CotEditor information

  • Developed by

    JP flagMineko IMANASHI

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5

  • Alternatives

    155 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Development, Office & Productivity

GitHub repository

  •  6,901 Stars
  •  445 Forks
  •  50 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 16, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about CotEditor, and it has gotten 40 likes

CotEditor was added to AlternativeTo by zonovo on May 28, 2010 and this page was last updated Aug 24, 2024.

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Top Positive Comment
Refalm
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Mar 13, 2021
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This is great if you're looking for an amazing simple text/code editor! Beautifully designed too.

arunshah
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Feb 23, 2021
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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!

Spout
Dec 1, 2020
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The application requires macOS 10.15 or later.

Norton
Aug 15, 2021

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).

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)

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