TextEdit Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to TextEdit for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Sublime Text, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to TextEdit and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to TextEdit are gedit, GNU nano, TextMate and CudaText.

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  1. Vy icon
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    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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. FoldingText icon
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    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

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    • Mac
     
  3. TEA icon
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    TEA is free text editor for Linux, *BSD, OS/2, Windows, Haicu. It depends on Qt 4.6+ or Qt 5 or Qt6, zlib and, optionally, on Aspell or Hunspell. The old (but renewed) branch, TEA-GTK depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 4coder icon
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    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.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Acme is a powerful text editor, development environment and textual-user-interface platform developed by Rob Pike originally for Plan 9 from Bell Labs research operating system, and now has ports available for all major platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Eddie icon
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    Eddie is a programmers editor for Mac OSX and Gnome Linux. Inspired by the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, Eddie brings some of it's powerful features into a modern lightweight and capable programmer's editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. iText icon
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    iText is an intuitive and refined text editor with word processing completely rewritten in Cocoa (so works with Afloat), and is suitable for both Power PC and Intel Macs. iText provides the simplest way to make gorgeous manuscripts on your Mac!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • iText is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to TextEdit.

    • iText is Freemium and ProprietaryTextEdit is Free and Proprietary
  8. xPad. icon
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    xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple's OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9.  2 likes
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    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    This HTML editor is a just a simple program, but with powerful features. It's based off of Apache NetBeans and it's UI. With support for CSS, HTML1-5, and XML it is very useful and plans are made to include server-side support and well as a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    • NetBeans
     
  11. skEdit icon
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    Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
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    Light notepad experience as in other Operating Systems. Simple, light, quick, free. Does not try to sync to cloud services or try to replace your favorite text editor. And completely free.

    14 Light Notepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
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