MacPad

MacPad is a native macOS plain-text editor focused on fast, simple editing. It follows the spirit of Windows Notepad while fitting naturally on macOS, with tabs, multiple windows, Open Recent, common line-ending and encoding controls, and a lightweight no-project workflow. GitHub is the canonical home for source code, issues, documentation, and releases.

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Tabbed editing and multiple windows

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Apache License V2.0

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anvilfilbert Posted 2026-08-13

Fast editor app for fast text edits. Like I am used to it on windows.

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Mac

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Cocoa (MacOS X)

Programming Language

Swift

Related Categories

Swift Text Editors

Registered

2026-07-22

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