Syntax Highlighting and Localization
Support for 80+ programming languages with customizable color themes and user-defined languages. Switch Nextpad++ to the language you speak. It supports 137 languages out of the box.
Nextpad++ has powerful features and built to feel right at home on macOS and Linux.
NextZip (Nzip) brings fast, native archiving to macOS and Linux and supports more than a dozen of compressed files formats
Beads Viewer makes multi-agent task tracking feel right at home on macOS and Linux.
Support for 80+ programming languages with customizable color themes and user-defined languages. Switch Nextpad++ to the language you speak. It supports 137 languages out of the box.
Extend functionality with a rich plugin ecosystem. Customize your editor to match your workflow. More plugins are being migrated to Mac as we speak.
Built for M-series chips. Launches instantly, runs efficiently, and respects your battery life.
Now native on any current release of every major Linux distro with full GTK4 support: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE, Mint, Arch etc.
Powerful search with regular expressions, find in files, bookmark lines, and incremental search.
View and edit two documents side by side, or two parts of the same document simultaneously.
Record, save, and replay macros to automate repetitive editing tasks with ease.
Compress and extract archives in seconds with native, multi-core performance tuned for Apple Silicon.
Open and create ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR and dozens more formats without hunting for extra tools.
Drag files and folders in or out of archives for instant compression and extraction. Use NextZip plugin for direct editing of compressed files in Nextpad++.
Right-click to compress or extract straight from Finder, the way macOS should work.
See your entire issue graph at a glance, with live status, blockers and priority heatmaps.
Read, edit and sync Beads JSONL files and Dolt databases — no editor required.
Track tasks created and updated by multiple AI agents in real time.
Real-time visibility through Kanban, Activity, and Insights dashboards. Adjust and track tasks while monitoring Agent swarm.
Customize your Editor in seconds to match your workflow.
Nextpad++ is a free, open-source text and code editor that supports many programming languages and is very simple and intuitive to use by non-technical users. No Wine, Porting Kit, emulation, or Flatpak layer is needed. Nextpad++ is a first full native Notepad++ port governed by the GNU General Public License.
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Nextpad++ for Mac is written in Objective C++ and uses pure platform-native APIs to ensure higher execution speed and a smaller program footprint. Nextpad++ for Linux is a new release with full macOS Nextpad++ version parity and is written in C++ with full GTK4 support. I hope you enjoy Nextpad++ on macOS and Linux as much as I enjoy bringing it to both platforms.
This project is a full open-source community port of Notepad++ to macOS and Linux. 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, ARM64 and x86 Linux and contains no telemetry, no advertising, and no data collection of any kind. The full source is available at github.com/nextpad-plus-plus/nextpad-plus-plus-macos and Linux github.com/nextpad-plus-plus/nextpad-plus-plus-linux. For the official Windows version of Notepad++, visit notepad-plus-plus.org.
Nextpad++ is a full independent macOS and Linux port of Notepad++ and is free to download. It runs on both Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5) and Intel Macs without any emulation or compatibility layers. It also runs on many versions of Linux with full GTK4 support and is available for download as .DEB and .RPM install for ARM64 and x86 platforms or via Ubuntu AppCenter.
No. Nextpad++ for macOS and Linux does not require Wine, Porting Kit, CrossOver, Flatpak or any other compatibility layer. It runs as a native macOS and Linux application.
Yes. Nextpad++ for macOS is built as a Universal Binary with native ARM64 support. Linux version has full ARM64 support as well. It runs at full speed on all Apple Silicon Macs (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5) without Rosetta translation.
Yes. Nextpad++ for macOS and Linux are completely free and open source, released under the GNU General Public License. There are no ads, subscriptions, or hidden costs.
Yes. Nextpad++ for macOS and Linux includes Plugin Admin and supports a growing library of plugins being ported directly from Notepad++ for Windows, with new releases added weekly. The plan is to port all existing Windows plugins to Mac and Linux. Visit the Plugins page to see the latest list of macOS and Linux ported plugins.
Nextpad++ for Mac and Linux are full independent builds from the official Notepad++ source code, which is open-source under the GNU GPL v3. Notepad++ was originally created in 2003 for Windows. The Mac and Linux versions are full independent community ports. They share the same codebase and feature set and have full parity but are maintained separately from the upstream Windows project.
The editing experience is identical — same Scintilla engine, same syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, same search and replace, same macro recording, same plugin support. The binary is a Universal Binary for Mac and .DEB and .RPM installs for Linux, running natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel and many Linux versions.
Yes. Every Mac release is code-signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, which scans each build for malware and issues a stapled ticket that macOS Gatekeeper verifies offline. The full source is open on GitHub, so anyone can audit or rebuild the software independently. macOS will not warn about an unidentified developer when you open the DMG for the first time. Linux version is code signed with full source open on GitHub and snap signed via Ubuntu AppCenter.
Nextpad++ for Mac and Linux is maintained by Andrew Letov and the open-source community contributing to the nextpad-plus-plus GitHub organisation. The project is independent of the upstream Notepad++ project, and contributors are welcome to submit pull requests for bug fixes, plugin ports, and new features.
No. Nextpad++ for Mac and Linux contains no telemetry, no analytics inside the application, no advertising, and no data collection of any kind. The editor does not phone home, track usage, or send crash reports. The only network traffic the app makes is when you explicitly use the Plugin Admin to browse or install plugins, which fetches the public plugin registry from GitHub.
