I Built a Notepad++ Alternative for Mac — Here's What I Learned

As a developer who spent years on Windows, switching to Mac meant leaving behind one tool I relied on daily: Notepad++ . Sure, there's VS Code, Sublime Text, and others — but none of them felt quite like Notepad++. So I built my own. Meet Notemac++ Notemac++ is a free, open-source text and source code editor for macOS and the web, inspired by Notepad++. It runs as a native desktop app (via Tauri) and as a web app you can try right now in your browser. Try it instantly: Launch the web app Why Another Editor? I didn't set out to compete with VS Code. I wanted something that felt like Notepad++ on Mac — fast startup, lightweight, tabbed editing, and all those small features that make text editing pleasant: bookmarks, macro recording, column editing, line operations, encoding conversion. But since I was building from scratch, I also added things I wished Notepad++ had: Built-in Git integration — A full GUI for staging, committing, diffing, and managing branches. Not just a terminal shortcu