Sublime Text 2 is billed as 'a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose,' making it the only one on this list that recognizes plain old wordsmiths as worth of love from the text editing crowd too. TextMate 2 has a lot of fans that prefer it to TextWrangler's big brother, BBEdit, for aesthetic and occasionally philosophical reasons. Each of them caters to a different audience: Brackets is great for the DIY crowd, while TextWrangler is a great multi-purpose general text editor. To start the list, here's a roundup of three free text editors that I think are worth your time. Here's a roundup of the best ones you can get for your Mac at the moment.Īlso, if you're looking for editing software for the iPad, make sure to check out our Best writing apps for iPad roundup.
Text editors are much more helpful if you're editing code, creating web pages, doing text transformation or other things for which a word processor is just overkill. Text editors are an entirely different story. Word processors like Microsoft Word and Apple's own Pages software are just dandy if you want to write a college paper or fax a cover sheet, but their focus is on page layout and text formatting.
The best free and paid text editor programs for Mac whether you're a web developer, programmer, technical writer, or anything in between!
