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CotEditor vs Kate

A side-by-side look at CotEditor and Kate. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

CotEditor

CotEditor

Office & Productivity

CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for macOS. It has a simple and intuitive interface with useful features like syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, and file comparison. It's open-source, customizable, and supports many text encodings.

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Kate

Kate

Development

Kate is a free and open-source advanced text editor for Linux, UNIX, Windows and macOS. It provides syntax highlighting, project management, plugins and other features for programmers and developers.

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