McWig AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like McWig

McWig is described as 'Modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to McWig for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best McWig alternative is Vim, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like McWig are Neovim, GNU Emacs, GNU nano and Edit.

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McWig alternatives page was last updated Aug 4, 2025

Vim
1341 likes
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
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
Netherlands
EU
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Haiku
AmigaOS
OpenSolaris
MorphOS
Flathub
Flatpak
Snapcraft
Is Vim a good alternative to McWig?
Vim is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to McWig.
Vim is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to McWig.
Vim is Free and Open SourceMcWig is also Free and Open Source
Vim is Lightweight and CustomizableMcWig is not according to our users
Neovim
186 likes
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
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Chocolatey
Flathub
Snapcraft
Is Neovim a good alternative to McWig?
GNU Emacs
387 likes
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
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Android
BSD
Snapcraft
F-Droid
Haiku
Debian
MacPorts
Homebrew
+6
Is GNU Emacs a good alternative to McWig?
GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to McWig.
GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceMcWig is also Free and Open Source
GNU Emacs is Customizable, Privacy focused and LightweightMcWig is not according to our users
GNU nano
289 likes
GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization support, and filename tab completion.
152 GNU nano alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Haiku
+1
Is GNU nano a good alternative to McWig?
Edit
19 likes
Open-source command-line text editor for Windows with a modern interface inspired by MS-DOS Editor, featuring key bindings, lightweight build under 250KB, multi-file handling with ctrl + P, keyboard-optimized navigation, and direct file editing for developers.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Windows
Is Edit a good alternative to McWig?
Micro
85 likes
Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
44 Micro alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
+2
Is Micro a good alternative to McWig?
Helix
34 likes
Helix is a fast text editor for the terminal inspired by modal editors like Kakoune and Neovim. Built as a native app using .
93 Helix alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MPL-2.0)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is Helix a good alternative to McWig?
Ox editor
3 likes
Ox is a code editor. It was written in Rust using ANSI escape sequences. It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Is Ox editor a good alternative to McWig?
Tilde
3 likes
Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. Example: copy current selection is Control-C; paste previously copied text is Control-V.
127 Tilde alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application types
Text Editor
Code Editor
Origin
Netherlands
EU
Platforms
Linux
Is Tilde a good alternative to McWig?
ne
5 likes
ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.
42 ne alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
Italy
EU
Platforms
Mac
Linux
Is ne a good alternative to McWig?
Vy
2 likes
vy is a modal editor with a very modular architecture. vy is built on top of Tkinter which is one of the most productive graphical toolkits; It permits vy to have such a great programming interface for plugins.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is Vy a good alternative to McWig?
4coder
1 like
4coder is a minimalist, cross platform, programmable, code editing environment, catering to the needs of low level programmers. It allows you to use one work flow across Windows, Linux, and Mac (with the exception of your debugger... for now.).
164 4coder alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Code Editor
Text Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is 4coder a good alternative to McWig?