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24 alternatives to Vintage

Vim text editor for MacOS

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Vintage launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Sublime Text 3.0▲1,273

   The long awaited version 3 of the popular code editor

   2017 · sublimetext.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Hemingway Editor 2.0▲494

   An editor that makes your writing bold and clear

   2015 · hemingwayapp.com · its alternatives →

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   Primitive for macOS▲798

   2016 · primitive.lol · its alternatives →

4. 4
   FontLab VI▲113

   Next-generation professional font editor

   2015 · fontlab.com · its alternatives →

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   TextMate 2.0▲155

   Powerful and customizable text editor for Mac

   2019 · macromates.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   An MS-DOS inspired web text editor▲13

   Minimalist plain text editor for the web. Contribute to jbreckmckye/dead-simple-text development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)▲168

   I set about coding my own version of the classic MS-DOS EDIT.COM for GNU/Linux systems four years ago and it this is where the project is at... still rough around the edges but works well with Termux! :) Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bneUX_kVA

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8VO
   Vim online editor using WebAssembly, storing files using IndexedDB▲316

   2023 · vimonlineeditor.com · its alternatives →

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   Sublime Todo▲262

   Minimalist, text editor-based task management for macOS

   2024 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Messages for Macintosh – a classic Mac iMessage client▲211

    An Apple iMessage client for classic Macintosh (System 2.0 - MacOS 9.2.2) - CamHenlin/MessagesForMacintosh

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tincta▲87

    Free, fast and simple open source text editor for Mac

    2021 · codingfriends.github.io · its alternatives →

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    McWig – A modal, Vim-like text editor written in Go▲152

    Hey! Check out my "toy" text editor which I use as my daily driver. Features LSP autocomplete, goto definition, hover info Tree-sitter support Color themes (borrowed from the Helix text editor) Lots of bugs Macro support Something like Emacs org-mode: Open test.txt, place the cursor at line 15, and press "Ctrl-C Ctrl-C". This project was written as a "speed run" — not for speed in terms of time, but rather as an exercise to explore the text editor problem space without overthinking or planning ahead. It’s a quick and "dirty" implementation, so to speak.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RightFont 2▲186

    Next-gen font manager

    2015 · rightfontapp.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor▲120

    A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    kindaVim▲84

    Vim for the whole macOS

    2022 · kindavim.app · its alternatives →

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    Vim▲7

    Editor that makes text maniuplation easy and quitting hard.

    2018 · vim.org · its alternatives →

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    Tome, aka Tom's Editor – a new command-line text editor▲131

    A command line text editor written in Node.js, focused on JavaScript. - tome/README.md at main · boutell/tome

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Medium Editor▲266

    The dead simple inline editor toolbar

    2016 · yabwe.github.io · its alternatives →

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    CotEditor▲102

    The free plain-text editor for OS X

    2014 · coteditor.com · its alternatives →

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    txt.edit▲109

    The missing text editor for iPhone & iPad

    2020 · txtedit.dev · its alternatives →

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    Squire▲123

    The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.

    2014 · neilj.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Atom▲145

    A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

    2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

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    NoteTabs▲129

    Native macOS text editor with horizontal tabs & auto-restore

    Jan 2026 · notetabs.azurewebsites.net · its alternatives →

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    Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE▲143

    A vim-like in Python. Contribute to vyapp/vy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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