XML Notepad AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors for Mac

XML Notepad is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac Text Editor alternative is Vim, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to XML Notepad and 12 are Text Editors available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Text Editor alternatives to XML Notepad are Geany, GNU Emacs, CudaText and UltraEdit.

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  1. Vim icon

    Vim

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    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.

    212 Vim alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    VIm is a powerful editor, but isn't able to provide a tree view of a XML file

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Vim is a general purpose tool.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Vim is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to XML Notepad.

    • Vim is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • Vim is Lightweight and CustomizableXML Notepad is not according to our users
  2. Geany icon

    Geany

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    Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flatpak
    • Haiku
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    Geany is an entire IDE, not a XML editor with tree view

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Geany is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • Geany is Lightweight, Minimalistic, Customizable and Privacy focusedXML Notepad is not according to our users
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    GNU Emacs

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    GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

    178 GNU Emacs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
     
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    Same as VIM, Emacs is a powerful editor, but isn't able to provide a tree view of a XML file

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • GNU Emacs is the most popular Android alternative to XML Notepad.

    • GNU Emacs is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • GNU Emacs is Customizable, Privacy focused and LightweightXML Notepad is not according to our users
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    CudaText

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    CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus / Free Pascal.

    194 CudaText alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    Multi-selections, Replace dialog at bottom
     
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    It's a general purpose text editor. While it can display XML text, it isn't a feature rich editor with a tree view.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • CudaText is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • CudaText is Lightweight, Customizable and Privacy focusedXML Notepad is not according to our users
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    UltraEdit

     161 likes
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    UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows platforms (Windows 2000 and later).

    209 UltraEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    UltraEdit features an integrated FTP browser and supports syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages, with more always in the works. And with an integrated SSH/telnet client, scripting, custom tools, macros and Smart Templates, UltraEdit's ready for any coding session.
     
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    It's a general purpose text editor. While it can display XML text, it isn't a feature rich editor with a tree view.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • UltraEdit is the most popular commercial alternative to XML Notepad.

    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryXML Notepad is Free and Open Source
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    CotEditor

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    Syntax Highlighting: Colorize more than 50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown. You can also create your own settings.

    160 CotEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    version 4 released 2020-11-14
     
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    It's a general purpose text editor. While it can display XML text, it isn't a feature rich editor with a tree view.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • CotEditor is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • CotEditor is LightweightXML Notepad is not according to our users
  9. ReText icon

    ReText

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    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    77 ReText alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    It's a general purpose text editor. While it can display XML text, it isn't a feature rich editor with a tree view.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • ReText is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • ReText is LightweightXML Notepad is not according to our users
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    FoldingText

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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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    Platforms

    • Mac
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    Vy

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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

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    4coder

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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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. Acme

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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
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  14. Climacs

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    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Images being moved around like any other buffer object
     
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