VS Code AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors for Mac - Page 8

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

filter to find the best alternatives

Visual Studio Code alternatives are mainly Code Editors but may also be Text 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 Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio Code

1268

Code Editor
Free • Proprietary

Visual Studio Code is a free and extensible code editor for building web, desktop, and mobile applications, using any programming language and framework.

More about Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code alternatives page was last updated Mar 14, 2024

SlickEdit
SlickEdit is a cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 7 platforms.
94 SlickEdit alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
SlickEdit Features
Autocompletion
Syntax Highlighting
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Show all NaN SlickEdit features ▾
SlickEdit VS Visual Studio Code
Is SlickEdit a good alternative to Visual Studio Code?

Aquamacs Emacs
An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more...
129 Aquamacs Emacs alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Aquamacs Emacs Features
Support for LaTeX
EMACS
Show all NaN Aquamacs Emacs features ▾
Aquamacs Emacs VS Visual Studio Code
Is Aquamacs Emacs a good alternative to Visual Studio Code?

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
Show all NaN SpaceNeovim features ▾
Discontinued
Last GitHub commit on Mar 2020.

SpaceNeovim VS Visual Studio Code
Is SpaceNeovim a good alternative to Visual Studio Code?

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
Show all NaN NEdit features ▾
+2
NEdit VS Visual Studio Code
Is NEdit a good alternative to Visual Studio Code?

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
Show all NaN Vis features ▾
Vis VS Visual Studio Code
Is Vis a good alternative to Visual Studio Code?

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

Kod VS Visual Studio Code
Is Kod a good alternative to Visual Studio Code?

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
Show all NaN TEA features ▾
TEA VS Visual Studio Code
Is TEA a good alternative to Visual Studio Code?