







Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.
Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Available on Mac, Windows and Linux

Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools
Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.

You can now use TextExpander for free across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more
TextExpander now offers a free plan, letting users access its core Snippets feature on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Chrome. Here are the details.

Notepad.exe - Native macOS Code Editor for Swift & Python
Lightweight macOS code editor. Skip the setup, write code, run instantly. Built-in iOS simulator, AI assistance, and Linux support.


Monodraw for macOS — Helftone
Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art (like diagrams, layouts, flow charts) and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. Because it's all just text, it can be easily embedded almost anywhere. Of course, exporting as images is also supported (PNG and SVG).

Textoshop: Interactions Inspired by Drawing Software to Facilitate Text Editing
twinkleplop — plop some twinkle in your code
A syntax highlighter and code authoring toolkit. Small, fast, customisable.

Scratch – A minimalist markdown scratchpad
An offline-first, open source markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions.


Tiptap - Dev Toolkit Editor Suite
Tiptap is a suite of content editing & real time collaboration tools. Build editor experiences like Notion in weeks, not years.

I Got So Sick of Editing My Videos That I Built My Own AI Editor. Here's the exact stack.
not a generator. a real editor. transcribe, cut, illustrate, caption, render. one conversation, two open-source tools, and Claude Code as the glue.

I Got So Sick of Editing My Videos That I Built My Own AI Editor. Here's the exact stack.
not a generator. a real editor. transcribe, cut, illustrate, caption, render. one conversation, two open-source tools, and Claude Code as the glue.
