Macchiato Alternatives

Macchiato is described as 'Simple plain text editor with a twist. Modeled after TextEdit's plain text mode, the editor is a chrome-less blank canvas. However, it is built from the ground up for writing Markdown prose—and, as such, it will format Markdown text as you write it' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Macchiato for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Macchiato alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Macchiato are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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  1. Pe, short for Programmer’s Editor, is an open source text editor for BeOS. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages. It also works as a basic source-level HTML editor, with some HTML autocompletion...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Haiku
     
  2. TweakStyle icon
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    An IDE tailor-made for web design and frontend development.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. TextRoom icon
     12 likes

    TextRoom is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen text editor developed especially writers in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Devpad icon
     6 likes

    Notepad-like VB.Net multi-tab source code editor for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that supports ASM, ASP.Net, Boo, C#, C++, CSS, HTML, INI, Java, JavaScript, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, VB.Net, XML and plain text files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Topstyle icon
     10 likes

    TopStyle contains powerful tools for building standards-compliant web sites.

    • Preview CSS while you write it.
    • Easily create pleasant color schemes for your site.
    • Style Checker validates your CSS syntax against multiple browsers.
    • Use Site Reports to see at-.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Aubrey's gVim icon
     9 likes

    Aubrey’s gVim is, well, Aubrey's gVim! The project arose out the his personal desire to use Vim as my HTML, CSS, PHP & Javascript editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  7. MarkRight icon
     6 likes

    MarkRight is a simple but very efficient Markdown editor built using Electron and ClojureScript. It uses a dual pane interface that lets you focus on the task of writing, while providing a live preview so you can instantly see the results.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  8. MultiMarkdown Composer is a text editor for Mac that is designed from the ground up around the MultiMarkdown Syntax. It is designed to make writing in MultiMarkdown even easier than it already is, with automatic syntax highlighting, built in previews, easy export to any format...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. FoldingText icon
     8 likes

    FoldingText makes you productive in easily formatted plain text. Turn your ideas into plans. Your to-dos into results. Your writing into clear, focused documents.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Udesly icon
     3 likes

    Udesly is a place where you can find awesome resources for Webflow and the Udesly Adapter APP to convert Webflow projects to WordPress and Shopify.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Texts.io icon
     9 likes

    Advanced text editor tailored for creating structured documents. Leverages Markdown to differentiate content and formatting, ensuring streamlined editing and publishing to a multitude of formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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