Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Caxton
A native macOS editor for 10GB logs and 2M-row CSVs. Memory-mapped, fully indexed, no Electron.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Hexel Editor▲78Native macOS hex editor with a brain for file formats
Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built Fresh to challenge the status quo that terminal editing must require a steep learning curve or endless configuration. My goal was to create a fast, resource-efficient TUI editor with the usability and features of a modern GUI editor (like a command palette, mouse support, and LSP integration). Core Philosophy: - Ease-of-Use: Fundamentally non-modal. Prioritizes standard keybindings and a minimal learning curve. - Efficiency: Uses a lazy-loading piece tree to avoid loading huge files into RAM - reads only what's needed for user interactions. Coded in Rust. - Extensibility: Uses…
Dec 2025 · sinelaw.github.io · its alternatives →
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Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data - mcastorina/graph-cli
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scapefree tier, from $9.99/mo▲59Hey HN, we've been using Claude Code daily for months, and built Scape to fix our biggest pain point: managing multiple worktrees quickly & reducing the mental load of switching between them quickly. What we built: Scape is a macOS menu bar app that sits on top of Claude Code and gives you: - One-click worktrees: click a button, get a new git worktree with a Claude session already working on it. Develop in parallel without leaving your current branch. - Toolkit: per-session actions like "Create PR", "Commit & Push", "Run & Fix Tests." Add your own with bash scripts or prompts. -…
22d ago · scape.work · its alternatives →
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Unfold▲123Extend macOS Quick Look to folders, archives & code files
Mar 2026 · unfold.tools · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. I built Waffle because I kept ending up with 15 terminal windows scattered across three spaces with no idea what was running where. Splitting/merging in iTerm kind of works but it never felt intuitive to me. With that in mind, I built something to suit my workflow: Waffle is a native macOS terminal (Built on Miguel de Icaza's SwiftTerm) that tiles your sessions into an auto-scaling grid automatically. 1 session is fullscreen, 2 is side by side, 4 is 2x2, 9 is 3x3. Open a terminal, it joins the grid. Close one, the grid rebalances. No splitting, no config. I've been using it a lot…
Apr 2026 · waffle.baby · its alternatives →
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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 →
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A free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS with customizable appearance profiles, optional Vim keys, and local writing corrections.
Aug 2026 · writemd.app · its alternatives →
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tterm▲109A terminal, a real browser, and Claude Code under one roof
Jul 2026 · tterm.sh · its alternatives →
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MacSentinel▲90Find what’s slowing your Mac then clean it safely
Sep 2026 · sentinel.digital · its alternatives →
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A native macOS app for the 7-Zip archiving utility. - AkshayKalose/789-Zip
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chimlo▲61Track Codex and Claude Code and respond from your Notch
Jul 2026 · kraten.github.io · its alternatives →
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SmoothCSV▲11Hi HN, I'm kohii, a software engineer from Japan. I've been building CSV editors for 15 years. This is my third rewrite from scratch, built with Tauri, Rust, and web technologies. *Why I built this:* Modern dev tools, that I use daily, are incredibly polished. CSV editors, not so much. I wanted a tool that handles CSVs as they are (messy column counts, various encodings, any delimiter or quoting style), preserves the original format, and gives you a polished spreadsheet UI with thoughtful UX. *What SmoothCSV does:* - *Fast*: Opens 100MB files in 1.6 seconds. (12x faster than Excel) -…
2025 · smoothcsv.com · its alternatives →
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Stratum▲7A native macOS database GUI — no Electron, no subscription
Jul 2026 · stratum.mwn-digital.uk · its alternatives →
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Pick a Mac and a model, get the memory it needs and the tokens/sec to expect. Covers M1 to M6, every unified memory size, Q4 to FP16. Formula fitted and validated on our own measurements on two machines.
4d ago · macyou.co · its alternatives →
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A native macOS Logseq — no Electron, no cloud, just markdown
Mar 2026 · seqlog.com · its alternatives →
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High-throughput C11 telemetry engine for Windows x64. Combines 3-6× lossless on-the-fly compression to slash SIEM costs with cyber resilience: zero-allocation hot paths and bounded memory guarantee zero OOM crashes under log storms or DDoS attacks paired with a corruption-resilient file format. Opti
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I made a Mac app for exploring large language models. It’s fast, small, has a tiny memory footprint. It’s immutable by design with both immediate time travel and automatic versioning as foundational elements. The app is written in Swift and a bit of Rust for the tokenizer. I used SwiftUI for structure and animations and Cocoa for advanced behavior. All storage is SQLite and local-only. You can go through the database as needed and backup it as well. The app has support for variants, which is the `n` parameter in the OpenAI chat completion API—equivalent to the drafts feature in…
2023 · thellm.app · its alternatives →
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3.4 MB Excalidraw for MacOS. Swift native light & fast - zpphxd/whitespace
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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