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24 alternatives to BBEdit

Professional text editor that doesn’t suck.®

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. BBEdit launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Hemingway Editor 2.0▲494
An editor that makes your writing bold and clear
2015 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →
2
Chocolat▲117
Native text editor for Mac.
2014 · its alternatives →
3
TextMate 2.0▲155
Powerful and customizable text editor for Mac
2019 · macromates.com · its alternatives →
4
CodeEdit▲157
Elevate your code editing experience
2024 · codeedit.app · its alternatives →
5
HextEdit – A fast and native hex editor for macOS▲88
HextEdit is a fast, native hex editor for macOS. View and edit the raw bytes of any file, inspect binary data with the byte inspector, and search large files without waiting.
2021 · hextedit.app · its alternatives →
6
ApowerEdit for Mac▲91
A good video editor for Mac with amazing features
2018 · apowersoft.com · its alternatives →
7
Medium Editor▲266
The dead simple inline editor toolbar
2016 · yabwe.github.io · its alternatives →
8
FocusedEdit – a classic Macintosh to web browser shared text editor▲83
I built a classic Macintosh text editor that allows users to do shared bidirection live editing with a web browser on a modern computer. Essentially it allows allows you to really quickly and easily share and edit text snippets on a classic Macintosh. I've tested the software on System 2.0 through System 7.6.1, but it should work on all PPC and 68k Macintoshes running up to MacOS 9.2.2 assuming they have a modem serial port available. In addition to the github repository, I wrote up a blog post here:…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
9
AiEditor▲589
An open source AI-powered rich text editor
2024 · aieditor.dev · its alternatives →
10
Facet▲395
Content-aware image editing in your browser.
2021 · its alternatives →
11
Hemingway Editor 3.0▲410
Make your writing bold and clear, send to Medium/Wordpress
2017 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →
12
Caret▲265
Beautiful and clever Markdown editor for Mac and PC
2017 · caret.io · its alternatives →
13
TextFlex▲179
Text editor & HTML viewer for iOS
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
14
Sublime Text 3▲383
Sophisticated Text Editor For Code
2014 · sublimetext.com · its alternatives →
15
MarsEdit 4▲145
Archive, write, preview, and publish your blog from a Mac
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
16
CKEditor 5▲74
Real-time collaborative WYSIWYG rich text editor.
2018 · ckeditor.com · its alternatives →
17
Typed▲256
The stunning markdown and writing app for Mac
2014 · realmacsoftware.com · its alternatives →
18
txt.edit▲109
The missing text editor for iPhone & iPad
2020 · txtedit.dev · its alternatives →
19
FlexEdit.app▲88
Powerful Editor for creating and managing Instructions.
2024 · flexedit.app · its alternatives →
20
NXT Editor▲71
The best app for working with raw text (.txt) files
2020 · alexhawking.itch.io · its alternatives →
21
UltraEdit▲9
The most flexible, powerful and secure text editor out there
2021 · ultraedit.com · its alternatives →
22
Typed▲104
New Markdown Editor for Mac by Realmac Software (pre-launch)
2014 · realmacsoftware.com · its alternatives →
23
Smart Text Editor▲94
The text editor that requires only a browser and a keyboard
2021 · stedit.app · its alternatives →
24
Markably▲78
Cross-platform Markdown editor
2020 · markably.io · its alternatives →

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