TextEditor++
A FREE, AI-DRIVEN TEXT EDITOR FOR MAC

Small notes.
Big files. No friction.

A free Mac text editor for text, code, and large logs, on your Mac or your servers.
Make changes with built-in AI. It runs locally, and your text never leaves your Mac.
Or bring your own AI.

Download for macOS
Or install with Homebrew
brew install texteditorplusplus/tap/texteditorplusplus
Apple Silicon · macOS · Always free. No ads.
FOLLOW LIVE LOGS AS THEY’RE WRITTEN
Native macOS Always free Built for large files AI-driven editing No ads. Just focus.

THE EVERYDAY, ELEVATED

Everything you reach for.
Nothing in your way.

For the quick note, the careful edit,
and the log that keeps on growing.

01

FIND YOUR SIGNAL

Search with precision.

From a single phrase to an advanced search pattern. Search the current document, open tabs, or a whole folder, and replace across files with a preview first.

error|warning.*
02

PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF

Your work remembers.

Reopen your tabs, unsaved notes, and modified files. Automatic session recovery keeps your working state close at hand.

Your session, right where you left it.
03

MAKE REPETITION DISAPPEAR

Do it once. Replay it.

Record keyboard edits, save a named macro, and repeat it wherever you need. Turn a series of manual steps into one repeatable action.

⌘+⇧Record. Repeat. Refine.

AI-DRIVEN EDITING

Built-in AI.
Just say it.

Describe your change in plain words and the AI makes it.
Free and private on your Mac, with no account needed.

Freeforever
0accounts needed
100%on your Mac
Offlineno internet needed

Runs on Apple Intelligence, right on your Mac.

Your text is processed on the device and never uploaded. Needs macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence turned on.

PROOFREAD WITH BUILT-IN AI

Describe your change.

Type “keep only the error lines” or “rename count to total” and it’s done. You see exactly what will change first, and it’s one undo step.

Free and private.

No subscription and no account. It runs on your Mac, and your text never leaves it.

Proofread and rewrite.

Fix spelling and grammar, rewrite for clarity, or make it friendly, professional or concise, still in your own voice.

Summaries, lists and tables.

Get the key points of a long note, or turn a wall of text into bullets, a table, or sections with headings, with every fact kept.

Clean up in a sentence.

Rename a word everywhere, keep only the lines you need, sort, or remove duplicates, just by saying so.

Nothing changes until you say so.

Every AI change arrives as a preview or a diff you accept or reject, stays within what you asked for, and undoes like any other edit.

See everything you can ask for

BRING YOUR OWN AI

Already paying for AI?
Use it here.

Connect the AI you already use and work with it right beside your files.

ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
GitHub Copilot

Your account, your login.

Sign in inside the provider’s own tool, or add your own API key. TextEditor++ never sees your password, and keys stay in your Mac’s Keychain.

Changes you approve.

Ask about a file, a folder or a huge log. Every edit arrives as a diff you accept or reject, and commands wait for your OK.

No extra cost from us.

You use the plan you already pay for. TextEditor++ stays free, with no TextEditor++ account.

How bring your own AI works

ROOM FOR YOUR BIGGEST IDEAS

From a quick note.
To the bigger picture.

Some days it’s a few lines. Other days it’s a sprawling log. TextEditor++ gives your text, code, and large files a focused place to work.

Move between documents, find the details that matter, and pick up where you left off—all in a familiar Mac interface.

Your files. Your focus. No distractions.

FOR THE CAREFUL CHANGES

Review it. Compare it.
Commit it.

The tools you’d usually open another app for,
right beside your text.

Git, built in.

Review, stage and commit without leaving your text. See who changed each line, and resolve conflicts side by side.

Compare, then fix.

Put two files or folders side by side, edit either side as the differences update, and save a patch.

Replace in every file.

Preview every change across a folder before it happens, and undo the whole run afterwards.

Markdown, previewed.

See your Markdown rendered live beside your text. No scripts, and nothing loaded from the internet unless you allow it.

Payment Tools.

In beta: 61 tools for card, key and payment message work, on your Mac, with keys hidden until you show them.

See every feature

FOR THE LOGS BEHIND YOUR SERVICES

Logs on your servers.
Read them where they live.

Connect over SSH with the keys you already use.
Nothing is uploaded, and no password is ever stored.

FOLLOW A LOG LIVE, AND SEE ONLY WHAT MATTERS

Your servers, one click away.

Save a server once and connect in one click. Browse its folders like Finder and open any file, however large, without downloading it first. Every remote tab shows if it’s online; click to reconnect.

Follow logs live.

New lines appear as they’re written: files on servers, Docker containers, Kubernetes pods, system journals, cloud logs, or the output of any command.

Only the lines you care about.

Show just the lines that match, with the lines around them, and keep several views of one log open at once. The log itself is never changed.

Capture the moment.

Start capturing before you reproduce a problem and stop after. Keep just that part of the log, ready to save or share.

Start line to end line.

Find the lines that open and close a transaction, request, or job, and collect everything between them.

Edit on the server, safely.

Files stay read-only until you unlock them. Saving checks nobody else changed the file first, so no one’s work is overwritten.

Also works with logs you’ve downloaded. Your cloud accounts stay with their own tools; TextEditor++ never sees your credentials.

FOR THE WORDS TRAPPED IN FILES

Images, PDFs, Word, Pages.
All of it becomes text.

Recognition runs on your Mac.
Nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed.

SCREENSHOTS AND PHOTOS, AS TEXT

Text out of any picture.

Screenshots, photos of a whiteboard, scanned pages. Choose images, paste one, or take a screenshot, and the words land in a tab you can search and edit.

PDFs and forms, page by page.

Every page keeps its number, and filled-in form fields and ticked checkboxes come out too, even on scanned forms. A progress bar shows how far it’s got.

Word and Pages, as text.

Open a .doc, .docx or Pages file and get its text, page by page, ready to search, compare or clean up.

A whole folder at once.

Drop a folder on the window and every file inside opens in its own tab: code and text as they are, images and documents as extracted text.

QR codes and barcodes.

Point it at a picture with codes and get their values as text. Links are shown, never opened for you.

Paste and keep typing.

Paste an image straight into a tab. TextEditor++ asks once, then puts the recognised text where your cursor is.

Extracted text opens as a new unsaved tab. Your original images and documents are never modified.

Your files.
Handled with care.

Work with confidence. Your original file stays unchanged until you save, and automatic session recovery helps you return to unfinished work.

Your documents stay on your Mac. Enjoy a completely free editor with no advertisements getting between you and your work.

A MORE FOCUSED WAY TO WORK

Your next favorite editor.
Ready for your Mac.

Always free. No ads. Just you and your ideas.

Download for macOS
Or install with Homebrew
brew install texteditorplusplus/tap/texteditorplusplus
Apple Silicon · macOS 14 or later