On MacOS, there is a wealth of superbly elegant and highly effective textual content editors to select from. On Home windows, there’s Notepad++. And now, on MacOS, there’s… Notepad++!
Notepad++ is now obtainable as a local macOS software. It’s a free, open-source supply code editor and Notepad substitute that helps many programming languages and is nice for basic textual content enhancing. No Wine, Porting Equipment, or emulation layer is required — it is a full native port ruled by the GNU Basic Public License.
Primarily based on the highly effective enhancing element Scintilla, Notepad++ for Mac is written in Goal C++ and makes use of pure platform-native APIs to make sure larger execution velocity and a smaller program footprint. I hope you get pleasure from Notepad++ on macOS as a lot as I get pleasure from bringing it to the Mac.
This undertaking is an impartial open-source group port of Notepad++ to macOS, began on March 10, 2026.
It has all the things precisely as it’s on Home windows: nice for Home windows customers pondering completely different, however maybe not so appetizing for MacOS veterans on the lookout for one thing new. Syntax highlighting, search and exchange, split-view enhancing, language help and macro recording are in. The plugin system works and “extra plugins are being migrated to MacOS as we converse.”
Notepad++ is by Dan Ho, and the Mac port is maintained by Andrey Letov and others.
It is humorous how in replicating each high quality element of the Home windows unique, you’d assume it’d find yourself simply as cluttered, and but it appears fairly good-looking!
Beforehand:
• Cleartext is a textual content editor that solely helps you to use the 1000 most typical phrases in English
• Behind the scenes, ‘plain’ textual content enhancing is unbelievably complicated and bizarre
• Alignment chart of textual content editors
