VS Code Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Visual Studio Code for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac 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 available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Visual Studio Code are Sublime Text, Vim, Kate and Neovim.

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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

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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.

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

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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Chocolat
Chocolat is a new text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools.
65 Chocolat alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
Chocolat Features
Coding
Multiple Cursors
Split windows
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Vy
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.
171 Vy alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
Last update and release on Nov 2020.

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Yi
Yi is a text editor written, and extensible in, the Haskell programming language. It can be made to behave like emacs or like vi.
33 Yi alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Yi Features
EMACS
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Discontinued
Project possibly abandoned. No activities for two years, and last release in 2017.In this GitHub issue, the developer discussed about the future of the project: https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/issues/1114

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AvalonStudio
An extensible, cross platform IDE written in C# for Embedded C/C++, .NET Core, Avalonia and Typescript.
56 AvalonStudio alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- IDE
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Visual Studio Code
AvalonStudio Features
C-sharp
C++
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Discontinued
Last commit in February 2022

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VOoM
Vim Outliner of Markups Turns Vim into a two-pane outliner.
27 VOoM alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
VOoM Features
1. Support for MarkDown
2. Text editing
3. Vim
4. Vim plugin
5. Outliner
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Discontinued
Last update is from 2017.

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edile
Edile is a basic but useful text editor for Linux, Mac OSX and other unix-like operating systems. Written in Python, Edile is implemented in a single source code file and requires no installation - you simply execute the source code file.
24 edile alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
- Text Editor
- Code Editor
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
edile Features
Portable
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Discontinued
Last release on 2010.

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