KeyClicker v2.4 is out! Experience the typing feel of a mechanical keyboard and typewriter with customizable key sounds.
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A Native Port of Notepad++ is Now Available for the Mac
I haven't seen this posted yet. A port of Notepad++ is now available at https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/ that "is built from the official Notepad++ source code" written in Objective C++ and uses macOS APIs.
Per the website:
>This project is an independent open-source community port of Notepad++ to macOS, started on March 10, 2026. It is distributed as an Apple Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized Universal Binary, runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1–M5) and Intel Macs, and contains no telemetry, no advertising, and no data collection of any kind. The full source is available at github.com/notepad-plus-plus-mac/notepad-plus-plus-macos
There is support for Notepad++ plugins, but plugins have to be ported.
You can check out the dev's homepage at https://aletik.me
I am not the dev. I learned of this app from a comment on another post and with the number of posts that ask for Notepad++ / Notepad alternatives for the Mac, I thought people might find this useful.
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I haven't seen this posted yet. A port of Notepad++ is now available at https://notepad-plus-plus-mac.org/ that "is built from the official Notepad++ source code" written in Objective C++ and uses macOS APIs.
Per the website:
>This project is an independent open-source community port of Notepad++ to macOS, started on March 10, 2026. It is distributed as an Apple Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized Universal Binary, runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1–M5) and Intel Macs, and contains no telemetry, no advertising, and no data collection of any kind. The full source is available at github.com/notepad-plus-plus-mac/notepad-plus-plus-macos
There is support for Notepad++ plugins, but plugins have to be ported.
You can check out the dev's homepage at https://aletik.me
I am not the dev. I learned of this app from a comment on another post and with the number of posts that ask for Notepad++ / Notepad alternatives for the Mac, I thought people might find this useful.
https://redd.it/1swjf8r
@macappsbackup
Nextpad++ for Mac
Nextpad++ for Mac: Free Native macOS Code Editor and full Notepad++ port
Nextpad++ for Mac is a free, open-source, native macOS code editor and full Notepad++ port for Mac. Universal Binary for Apple Silicon (M1–M5) and Intel Macs. No Wine, no Rosetta, no emulation.
[Lifetime] cyberWriter - markdown, latex, embeds, live html, local AI and note taking- no plugins
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cyberWriter - Native Markdown Power for macOS
A native macOS Markdown editor with live PDF preview, AI workspace, vault support, LaTeX, Mermaid diagrams, and zero external dependencies.
Update on QUICOPY (menu-bar text shortcuts): finally got it working inside Zed and VS Code terminals after a Carbon vs NSEvent rabbit hole
Hey r/macapps. Solo dev here. I built QUICOPY last year because I kept retyping the same AI prompts into ChatGPT every day, and existing text expanders all felt like overkill (TextExpander's abbreviation system, Raycast's launcher trip, etc). I just wanted: press one key, get my text. So I built that.
Posting because I just shipped 1.1 and want to share something I tripped over hard.
The bug that took weeks to figure out
In 1.0, the shortcut would fire perfectly in Notes, Mail, Slack, Chrome, but quietly do nothing inside Zed's built-in terminal. Same in VS Code's integrated terminal. No error, just silence.
It turns out macOS's
The fix was moving shortcut capture upstream to
Full technical write-up if anyone's into this kind of thing:
https://www.quicopy.com/blog/macos-shortcut-dispatch-zed
Other 1.1 changes
- Paste delivery rewritten to be robust when the foreground app draws its own text UI (Edit menu missing? still works)
- Small fix: pressing a bound shortcut while my own popover was visible no longer shows a harmless-but-ugly error toast
Comparison
- vs TextExpander: no abbreviation codes to memorize, one keypress vs
typing a trigger. $9.99 lifetime instead of $40/year subscription.
- vs Raycast snippets: no launcher step, one keypress vs three (open, type, Enter).
- vs macOS System Settings shortcuts: works in any app including sandboxed Electron and editor-embedded terminals.
Pricing
- $1.99/month with a 7-day free trial, or
- $9.99 one-time lifetime purchase
- Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/quicopy/id6761418490
Happy to talk about the Carbon to NSEvent migration, why I went with AppleScript System Events for paste delivery instead of CGEvent (sandbox blocks the latter, wrote about that too if anyone's curious), or just take whatever questions you have.
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Hey r/macapps. Solo dev here. I built QUICOPY last year because I kept retyping the same AI prompts into ChatGPT every day, and existing text expanders all felt like overkill (TextExpander's abbreviation system, Raycast's launcher trip, etc). I just wanted: press one key, get my text. So I built that.
Posting because I just shipped 1.1 and want to share something I tripped over hard.
The bug that took weeks to figure out
In 1.0, the shortcut would fire perfectly in Notes, Mail, Slack, Chrome, but quietly do nothing inside Zed's built-in terminal. Same in VS Code's integrated terminal. No error, just silence.
It turns out macOS's
RegisterEventHotKey (Carbon, from 2001) doesn't fire when the frontmost app consumes the key event itself, which is exactly what self-drawn terminal UIs do. Zed, VS Code's integrated terminal, Ghostty's embedded modes, all fall in this bucket. iTerm2 and Warp don't, which is why nobody complained about them.The fix was moving shortcut capture upstream to
NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents. Works regardless of whether the frontmost app consumes the event. Sounds obvious in hindsight; took me a long time to find.Full technical write-up if anyone's into this kind of thing:
https://www.quicopy.com/blog/macos-shortcut-dispatch-zed
Other 1.1 changes
- Paste delivery rewritten to be robust when the foreground app draws its own text UI (Edit menu missing? still works)
- Small fix: pressing a bound shortcut while my own popover was visible no longer shows a harmless-but-ugly error toast
Comparison
- vs TextExpander: no abbreviation codes to memorize, one keypress vs
typing a trigger. $9.99 lifetime instead of $40/year subscription.
- vs Raycast snippets: no launcher step, one keypress vs three (open, type, Enter).
- vs macOS System Settings shortcuts: works in any app including sandboxed Electron and editor-embedded terminals.
Pricing
- $1.99/month with a 7-day free trial, or
- $9.99 one-time lifetime purchase
- Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/quicopy/id6761418490
Happy to talk about the Carbon to NSEvent migration, why I went with AppleScript System Events for paste delivery instead of CGEvent (sandbox blocks the latter, wrote about that too if anyone's curious), or just take whatever questions you have.
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The macOS Global Shortcut That Won't Fire in Zed
Carbon's RegisterEventHotKey quietly fails in self-drawn terminals. Here's the fix.