On MacOS, there's a wealth of beautifully elegant and powerful text editors to choose from. On Windows, there's Notepad++ . And now, on MacOS, there's… Notepad++! 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.…