MacVim Alternatives

Apps similar to MacVim include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Vim and Zed Editor. There's no shortage of Text Editors like MacVim, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Chrome OS.

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  1. SynWrite icon
     31 likes

    SynWrite is a free source code editor and notepad replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.

    170 SynWrite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Total Commander
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  2. ecode icon
     6 likes

    Lightweight multi-platform code editor with hardware-accelerated GUI, customizable minimalist interface, syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, terminal and LSP support, plugin extensibility, unlimited editor splits, persistent project state, and portable, ad-free use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • FreeBSD
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  3. Neovide icon
     3 likes

    Neovide is a simple graphical user interface for Neovim (an aggressively refactored and updated Vim editor). Where possible there are some graphical improvements, but functionally it should act like the terminal UI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Neovim
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. Spacemacs icon
     26 likes

    Spacemacs is an beautiful Emacs distribution designed for both GNU Emacs and Vim users.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. BabelPad icon
     5 likes

    BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

    153 BabelPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  6. Scribe icon
     1 like

    Vim-flavoured modal editor with the parts a writer actually needs and a few features vim never had. Single static binary, sub-10 ms startup, soft-wrap by default, Claude Code in the editor, syntax highlighting, hunspell spellcheck, Goyo-style reading mode, persistent registers...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
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  7. Jollpi icon
     1 like

    Jollpi is a lightweight, simple, and reliable text editor, built with Python 3, GTK4, and GtkSourceView 5. This version is a modern rewrite of the original 2010 Python 2 + PyGTK Jollpi text editor - now refreshed for modern Linux distributions.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  8. Lines is a modern and minimalist text editor - IDE with support for over 150 programming languages, embedded code inspectors and many other cool tools to help you write better code.

    176 Lines code editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Judge0 IDE icon
     7 likes

    Judge0 IDE is a free and open-source online code editor that allows you to write and execute code from a rich set of languages. It's perfect for anybody who just wants to quickly write and run some code without opening a full-featured IDE on their computer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Aubrey's gVim icon
     10 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.

    68 Aubrey's gVim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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