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CotEditor for Mac

Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS.

By coteditor. Free and open source.

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CotEditor at a glance

Version
7.1.1
Released
3 October 2026
Download size
25 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Category
Writing and Editors
Developer
coteditor
GitHub stars
8.6K

About CotEditor

Lightweight Plain Text Editor for macOS

Screenshots

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How to install CotEditor on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for CotEditor and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 7.1.1 from coteditor's own GitHub release.
  3. 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 CotEditor 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: CotEditor_7.1.1.dmg (25 MB).

What is new in CotEditor 7.1.1

### New Features

- Add the Ukrainian localization (thanks to Yaroslav Savchenko!).
- Add the Hindi localization (thanks to Prajwal Raj!).

### Improvements

- Improve the “Open with External Editor” button in the file preview view.
- Update tree-sitter-php.
- Update tree-sitter-sql.
- [trivial] Tweak the appearance of the “Import Settings” and “Export Settings” windows.
- [trivial] Tweak the layout of the CotEditor section in the print dialog.
- [trivial] Support keyboard shortcuts using keys that produce multiple characters with a single press.
- [non-AppStore ver.] Update Sparkle from 2.9.6 to 2.10.0.

### Fixes

- Fix an issue where narrow windows with the Syntax toolbar item could cause sustained high CPU usage on macOS 27.
- Fix an issue where Redo could change line endings in documents with mixed line endings.
- Fix an issue where Replace All could change line endings outside the matched text in documents with mixed line endings.
- Fix localizations.

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor/compare/7.1.0...7.1.1

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