Alternatives

Products that do what CotEditor does

The free plain-text editor for OS X

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MarkRight▲84
A minimalistic github flavored markdown editor
2015
2FA
Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor▲168
2013 · firepad.io
3
Macaw▲90
A simple code editor for Swift
2017
4
Brackets 1.0▲190
An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014
5
Squire▲123
The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.
2014
6
Atom▲145
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
2014
7AR
A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js▲278
2019 · github.com
8RA
Rustpad, a self-hosted online collaborative text editor▲143
2021 · github.com
9WO
Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps▲215
2014 · github.com
10
Markoff▲94
A free Markdown previewer for OS X
2016
11PE
Phi-editor, a text editor implemented in Go and SDL▲102
2018 · github.com
12SM
Slate-md-editor – A markdown editor that allows live editing▲123
2018 · github.com
13NI
Neonpad.io – A neon plain text editor▲50
2021 · neonpad.io
14MW
My WWDC-inspired project. A Markdown editor for Lion▲75
2011 · kswizz.com
15AD
a distraction-free Markdown editor▲74
2012 · pencil.asleepysamurai.com
16AI
An in-browser text editor to easily create static HTML▲140
2022 · triplelog.com
17MA
Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141
2015 · monodraw.com
18HA
HextEdit – A fast and native hex editor for macOS▲88
2021 · hextedit.app
19WA
Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)▲133
2017 · github.com
20UA
UnityShell, a “shell” for the Unity Editor▲55
2018 · github.com
21CB
Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop▲59
2015 · caret.io
22PL
Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel▲120
2014 · paperman.patricklorio.com
23DM
Devpen – Markdown Editor with GitHub Style▲70
2018 · devpen.io
24ME
MarkRight – Electron-powered GitHub-flavored Markdown editor▲57
2015 · github.com

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