Chime for Mac
An editor for macOS.
By ChimeHQ. Free and open source, BSD-3-Clause licence.
Chime at a glance
- Version
- 205 (pre-release)
- Released
- 24 February 2025
- Download size
- 13 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- Category
- Writing and Editors
- Developer
- ChimeHQ
- GitHub stars
- 485
How to install Chime on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Chime and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 205 from ChimeHQ's own GitHub release.
- Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.
Updates to Chime show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.
Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Chime.zip (13 MB).
What is new in Chime 205
- Editor component is now functional (but not good) - Multi-cursor support - Highlighting behavior is significantly improved, especially when editing
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