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 Neovim, VSCodium, Sublime Text and GNU Emacs.

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Vim alternatives are mainly Text Editors but may also be Code Editors or IDEs. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Vim.

Vim

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Code Editor
Free • Open Source

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.

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Vim alternatives page was last updated Sep 5, 2024

SpaceNeovim
SpaceNeovim is Spacemacs for Neovim . It's a fork of Spacevim that focuses on Neovim functions.
27 SpaceNeovim alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
SpaceNeovim Features
Modular extensions
EMACS
Vim
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Discontinued
Last GitHub commit on Mar 2020.

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NEdit
NEdit is a multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System, which combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day.
38 NEdit alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
NEdit Features
Support for LaTeX
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Plain Text Editor
Simple distraction-free text editor without any rich text nonsense. The simplicity is a feature.
53 Plain Text Editor alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Plain Text Editor Features
1. Lightweight
2. Dark Mode
3. Distraction-free
4. Simple text editor
5. Distraction-free Writing
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Vis
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...
155 Vis alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Vis Features
Console-based
Support for regular expressions
Modal editor
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Kod
Kod is a programmers' editor for OS X

Source available at http://github.com/rsms/kod

Goals and features

Fully concurrent — loading files, syntax highlighting, etc is distributed across available CPU cores. Minimal waiting time.

Integrated scripting environment based on N...
52 Kod alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Discontinued
Last update was in 2011. https://github.com/rsms/kod

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TEA
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.
65 TEA alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- IDE
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
TEA Features
1. Syntax Highlighting
2. C++
3. Tabbed interface
4. Built-in File Manager
5. Built-in Image converter
6. Built-in Image viewer
7. Built-in archiver
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Thunderpad
Thunderpad (formerly Textpad) is a simple, general-purpose and cross-platform text editor written in C++ using the Qt libraries. Thunderpad aims to be faster and more lightweight than most text editors, but as useful as them.
117 Thunderpad alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Thunderpad Features
Distraction-free
Syntax Highlighting
Lightweight
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+2
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed since 2015. Latest versions can be still downloaded from SourceForge and GitHub

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ne
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.
16 ne alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Text Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
ne Features
Command line interface
Lightweight
Syntax Highlighting
Support for Large File
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