LARGE FILE EDITOR FOR MAC

Open a 50 GB log. Start reading straight away.

Most editors load the whole file into memory before you see the first line. TextEditor++ reads only the part of the file you are looking at, so a huge log opens about as fast as a small note, and memory stays small no matter how big the file is.

Measured, not promised

In our published benchmarks of the editor engine, a 50 GB log opened in about 10 milliseconds while the engine used around 40 MB of memory. In the full app window, the same file opened in about 17 milliseconds. Counting through all of a 10 GB file took about a second. These are engine benchmarks on an Apple Silicon Mac with a warm disk cache; your results depend on your Mac and disk, and there is no fixed maximum file size.

Built for the size you have

Good for

How big a file can TextEditor++ open?

We have tested real files up to 50 GB and synthetic files up to 100 GB. There is no fixed limit; because only the visible part is read, the practical limit is your disk, not your memory.

Can I edit a large file, or only view it?

You can edit it. Edits are kept separately until you save, and saving writes a new copy before replacing the original, so the original is safe if anything goes wrong.

Try it on your own files.

Free, with no ads. For Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later.

Download for macOS
Or install with Homebrew
brew install texteditorplusplus/tap/texteditorplusplus

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