



Scribe is described as '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' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Scribe for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Scribe alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Scribe are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.




MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to macOS. MacVim supports multiple windows with tabbed editing and a host of other features such as:

Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor - the next iteration of the Onivim project - combining Vim-style modal editing with the aesthetics and language features of modern editors.
