Vim Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Vim for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Vim and loads of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Vim are Sublime Text, Neovim, VSCodium and Zed Editor.

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  1. Ki Editor icon

    Ki Editor

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    Ki Editor is a modal editor that supports multi-cursor structural editing.

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    • BSD
    • Rust
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  2. mle icon

    mle

     1 like

    A small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. A

    Acme

     4 likes

    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
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  5. A

    ad

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    ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.

    49 ad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
    ad screenshot 1
     
  6. LiteIDE icon

    LiteIDE

     7 likes

    LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Main Window
     
  7. C

    Climacs

     2 likes

    Climacs is an open source Emacs-like text editor written in Common Lisp. It has a good integration with other CLIM-based applications and uses Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) library, called ESA, that provides an Emacs-style user interface, rather than the normal CLIM UI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    Images being moved around like any other buffer object
     
  9. Yi icon

    Yi

     4 likes

    Yi is a text editor written, and extensible in, the Haskell programming language. It can be made to behave like emacs or like vi.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    The Vty frontend
     
  10. Bim text editor icon

    Bim text editor

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    Bim is a Vim-inspired, terminal text editor originally built for ToaruOS but also available for Linux, Sortix, FreeBSD, and macOS. Bim aims to be lightweight and featureful with no external dependencies, providing a modern editing experience...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Bim text editor screenshot 1
     
  11. TweakStyle icon

    TweakStyle

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    An IDE tailor-made for web design and frontend development.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    TweakStyle screenshot 1
     
  12. ne icon

    ne

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    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

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    ne screenshot 1
     
  13. 4coder icon

    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.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    4coder screenshot 1
     
  14. Chocolat icon

    Chocolat

     12 likes

    Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Text Editing
     
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