QwikText for Mac

Free native Mac text editor with 26 tools, Markdown preview and optional PayPal tips

QwikText is a free native text editor for Mac. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later and supports both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Edit TXT, Markdown, JSON, LOG and CSV files as plain text in familiar Mac document windows. Use automatic saving, Open Recent, find and replace with regular expressions, line numbers, word wrapping and text statistics. UTF-8, UTF-8 BOM and UTF-16 LE/BE are supported.

26 practical text tools help you clean and transform text. Add prefixes, suffixes and line numbers; split, join, sort or shuffle lines; change case; trim whitespace; remove duplicates; and filter lines or words. Format JSON and XML, encode or decode Base64 and URLs, create Unicode text styles, convert supported Markdown to HTML and generate QR images. Optional password encryption and decryption use Apple’s operating-system cryptography locally.

Search tools, save favorites and resize the sidebar. Work on a selection or the whole document, preview results before applying them and undo changes in one step. Expand results into a movable, resizable viewer with content zoom. Markdown documents offer a local split preview; raw HTML is not executed and remote images are not loaded.

Choose system, light or dark appearance, adjust editor font size and background transparency, and select from 18 interface languages. Text processing runs on your Mac. No account, advertising, analytics or subscription is required for editing.

All app features are free. The red heart offers optional, repeatable one-time support through PayPal in your browser

This download is the Developer ID signed and Apple-notarized direct-distribution edition. Version 1.0.5 fixes the empty-search validation message and tool-sidebar controls being covered by the result background.

CSV is edited as text. Markdown supports a practical subset of syntax. Editing and individual tools have documented size limits. Encryption does not remove earlier plaintext from originals, undo history, recovery copies or backups.