Best MacVim Alternatives (31)

Looking for a MacVim alternative? We've compiled the best options based on user reviews, features, and pricing to help you find the right fit.

What is MacVim? MacVim is a free, open source GUI version of the popular Vim text editor for macOS. It has a native macOS look and feel and includes additional features like clipboard support not found in terminal-based Vim.

MacVim has 4 reviews with an average rating of 4.5/5.

Top Alternatives to MacVim

Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source, lightweight code editor developed by Microsoft. It supports debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code …

Score: 20
VSCodium

VSCodium

Open Source

VSCodium is an open source alternative to Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor. It is based on the same codebase as …

Score: 19
Neovim

Neovim

Open Source

Neovim is a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor. It aims to improve Vim by refactoring the source code to allow greater …

Score: 17

DinVim is a Neovim client for iOS devices including iPhones and iPads. It allows users to edit text files and …

GNvim is a Neovim GUI written in Go. It aims to be a simple, customizable, and lightweight GUI for Neovim …

Neovim Qt is a graphical user interface for the Neovim text editor. It allows using Neovim's advanced text editing capabilities …

CudaText is a fast, lightweight, cross-platform text editor written in Lazarus. It supports syntax highlighting for over 100 languages and …

Jove is an open-source platform for publishing interactive data science tutorials and lessons online. It allows users to create step-by-step …

Pulsar Editor is a lightweight, cross-platform text editor with a minimal interface. It has syntax highlighting support for many programming …

Notepad++ is a free and open-source text editor for Windows. It supports syntax highlighting for over 100 programming languages and …

Spacevim is a distribution of the Vim editor that comes with many additional features and plugins preconfigured to provide a …

Emacs Prelude is an Emacs distribution that aims to enhance the default Emacs experience. It provides sensible defaults, out-of-the-box experience, …

Neovide is a GUI client for the Neovim text editor designed to provide a fast and lightweight graphical interface using …

SpaceNeovim is a lightweight, customizable Neovim GUI focused on speed and usability. It is built with Rust and provides key …

Kate is a free and open-source advanced text editor for Linux, UNIX, Windows and macOS. It provides syntax highlighting, project …

BBEdit is a text and code editor for macOS. It is popular for its extensive text processing capabilities, built-in FTP/SFTP …

Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight text editor for Windows. It is based on the Scintilla editor component and built …

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides …

GNU nano is a simple, easy-to-use command line text editor for Unix-like operating systems. It aims to emulate the look …

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MacVim Overview

MacVim is a free, open source GUI (graphical user interface) version of the popular Vim text editor for macOS. Developed by Bram Moolenaar based on Vim, MacVim has many of the same powerful text editing features of Vim but with some additional enhancements suited for macOS.Like Vim, MacVim is highly customizable and supports advanced text editing features like multi-level undo/redo, extensive keyboard shortcuts, macros, split windows, syntax highlighting for over 200 file formats, and power user tools like regular expressions. …

Pricing: Open Source

Quick Comparison

SoftwarePricingScore
MacVimOpen Source17
Visual Studio Codefree20
VSCodiumOpen Source19
NeovimOpen Source17
DinVimN/A
GNvimN/A
Neovim QtN/A
CudaTextN/A
JoveN/A
Pulsar EditorN/A
Notepad++N/A

Users rate MacVim 4.5/5 based on 4 reviews.

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