DEV-TOOLSApril 27, 20261 min read8 views

Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

Notepad++ is now available as a native macOS application through an independent community port, offering full support for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs without emulation.

All the powerful features of Notepad++, built to feel right at home on macOS.

Support for 80+ programming languages with customizable color themes and user-defined languages.

Extend functionality with a rich plugin ecosystem. Customize your editor to match your workflow. More plugins are being migrated to macOS as we speak.

Built for M-series chips. Launches instantly, runs efficiently, and respects your battery life.

Powerful search with regular expressions, find in files, bookmark lines, and incremental search.

View and edit two documents side by side, or two parts of the same document simultaneously.

Record, save, and replay macros to automate repetitive editing tasks with ease.

Switch Notepad++ to the language you speak. It supports 137 languages out of the box.

Notepad++ is now available as a native macOS application. It is a free, open-source source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports many programming languages and is great for general text editing. No Wine, Porting Kit, or emulation layer is needed – this is a full native port governed by the GNU General Public License.

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ for Mac is written in Objective C++ and uses pure platform-native APIs to ensure higher execution speed and a smaller program footprint. I hope you enjoy Notepad++ on macOS as much as I enjoy bringing it to the Mac.

This project is an independent open-source community port of Notepad++ to macOS, started on March 10, 2026. It is distributed as an Apple Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized Universal Binary, runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1–M5) and Intel Macs, and contains no telemetry, no advertising, and no data collection of any kind. The full source is available at github.com/notepad-plus-plus-mac/notepad-plus-plus-macos. For the official Windows version of Notepad++, visit notepad-plus-plus.org.

Source: Hacker News

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