XML Notepad Alternatives 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 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 19 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to XML Notepad are Geany, GNU Emacs, CudaText and UltraEdit.

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  1. Vim icon
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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.

    215 Vim alternatives

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    Vim vs XML Notepad Comments
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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.
    • 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
     577 likes

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

    154 Geany alternatives

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    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flatpak
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    Geany vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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    Geany is an entire IDE, not a XML editor with tree view

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • 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
  3. GNU Emacs icon
     387 likes

    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:

    181 GNU Emacs alternatives

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    • Snapcraft
    • F-Droid
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    • Debian
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
     
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    GNU Emacs vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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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.
    • 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
  4. CudaText icon
     54 likes

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

    196 CudaText alternatives

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    • Flathub
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    CudaText vs XML Notepad Comments
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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.
    • 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
  5. UltraEdit icon
     161 likes

    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).

    211 UltraEdit alternatives

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    UltraEdit vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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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.
    • UltraEdit is Paid and ProprietaryXML Notepad is Free and Open Source
  6. CotEditor icon
     43 likes

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

    162 CotEditor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    CotEditor vs XML Notepad Comments
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    Negative
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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.
    • CotEditor is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • CotEditor is Lightweight and Privacy focusedXML Notepad is not according to our users
  7. ReText icon
     49 likes

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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    ReText vs XML Notepad Comments
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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.
    • ReText is Free and Open SourceXML Notepad is also Free and Open Source
    • ReText is LightweightXML Notepad is not according to our users
  8. XML Copy Editor icon
     29 likes

    XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor.

    • DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation
    • XSLT
    • XPath
    • Pretty-printing
    • Syntax highlighting
    • Folding
    • Tag completion
    • Tag locking
    • Tag-free editing
    • Spelling and style check .
    22 XML Copy Editor alternatives

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    • Free
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  9. Oxygen XML Editor is a cross platform XML Editor providing tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XSL, XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, SOAP and WSDL.

    27 Oxygen XML Editor alternatives

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  10. Xmplify icon
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    MOSO Xmplify is a powerful new XML editor built specifically for Mac OS X, with DTD and XML Schema-based auto-completion, automatic document validation, XSLT and XPath support, live HTML preview and much more.

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  11. EditiX icon
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    EditiX is a powerful and easy to use XML editor, Visual Schema Editor, XQuery Editor and XSLT debugger for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X designed to help web authors and application programmers take advantage of the latest XML and XML-related technologies such as XSLT / FO...

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  12. Editing of XML direct and easy, with many helpful features. The XML data is presented in an clearly and easy to handle way.

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