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 accessible as a local macOS utility. It’s a free, open-source supply code editor and Notepad alternative that helps many programming languages and is nice for common textual content modifying. No Wine, Porting Package, or emulation layer is required — this can be a full native port ruled by the GNU Basic Public License.
Primarily based on the highly effective modifying part 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 unbiased open-source group port of Notepad++ to macOS, began on March 10, 2026.
It has every little thing 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 modifying, language help and macro recording are in. The plugin system works and “extra plugins are being migrated to MacOS as we communicate.”
Notepad++ is by Dan Ho, and the Mac port is maintained by Andrey Letov and others.
It is humorous how in replicating each superb element of the Home windows authentic, you’d assume it’d find yourself simply as cluttered, and but it seems fairly good-looking!
Beforehand:
• Cleartext is a textual content editor that solely allows you to use the 1000 most typical phrases in English
• Behind the scenes, ‘plain’ textual content modifying is unbelievably advanced and bizarre
• Alignment chart of textual content editors
