---
name: "Notepad++ for Mac"
subtitle: "Native macOS port of the Windows-only text editor people refuse to give up"
date: 2026-05-03
link: https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/
source: "r/macapps"
topics: [macos-apps]
tags: [editor, open-source, native]
---

A community-led, Apple-notarized port of Notepad++ written in Objective-C++ against the official source — not a Wine wrapper, not an Electron shell, an actual Universal Binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon. It exists for the population of switchers who never found a Mac editor with the same combination of zero-config, multi-document, regex-everywhere muscle memory.
