glance VS CotEditor

Compare glance vs CotEditor and see what are their differences.

glance

🔎 All-in-one Quick Look plugin (by samuelmeuli)
quick-look MacOS macos-app file-preview quicklook-plugin Quicklook

DISCONTINUED

Suggest alternative
Edit details

CotEditor

Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS (by coteditor)
MacOS Swift Cocoa mac-app macos-app Editor Texteditor coteditor
Source Code
coteditor.com
Suggest alternative
Edit details
InfluxDB
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
Our great sponsors
glance CotEditor
1 47
778 6,075
- 2.1%
6.8 9.9
almost 4 years ago 8 days ago
Swift Swift
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

glance

Posts with mentions or reviews of glance. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-11.

CotEditor

Posts with mentions or reviews of CotEditor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.
  • Bare Bones Software – BBEdit 15 is here
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
    CotEditor doesn’t get enough due. Completely Mac-native and open source.

    https://coteditor.com/

    https://github.com/coteditor/

  • Equivalent Text Software to Notepad++ on Windows for Mac
    1 project | /r/macbook | 30 Oct 2023
    CotEditor is pretty nice.
  • Ask HN: Local Wysiwyg HTML Editor for Mac
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2023
  • Reflections on a Month with BBEdit and Nova
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2023
    Thanks for writing this up so beautifully. I'm an old Mac user and user Nova daily, mostly for Playdate development. It has been very unstable/crash-prone recently, agreed. The major crasher that lost me much work was fixed in a recent update, so I no longer want to delete the app but I would still appreciate it if they could take the accelerator off and fix all the crashers.

    I also have the following installed BBEdit (for some advanced commands only it can do), Sublime Text (for quick opening and searching of directories of text).

    My favourite editor: CotEditor https://coteditor.com (for it's unbelievable speed of launching, solid language/character-set support in particular Japanese; let down in only one way - it won't open folders of files). Highly recommended!

  • A collection of useful Mac Apps
    32 projects | /r/macapps | 13 Jul 2023
    CotEditor - Price: Free Text editor for macOS that features syntax highlighting and a user-friendly interface.
  • Software Developer Mac Apps
    44 projects | /r/macapps | 17 May 2023
    CotEditor, which is like TextEdit except actually useful for non-text documents (e.g. I write a lot of Markdown in it).
  • What are your favourite apps?
    5 projects | /r/macapps | 7 Apr 2023
    CotEditor - Plain text editor but with many more features and a clean macOS UI. Absolutely a must-have for basic file editing (e.g. Markdown).
  • Getting my first MacBook today (been PC for 25 yrs) and planned on using the native apps - any suggestions on 3rd party downloads?
    5 projects | /r/macbook | 24 Feb 2023
    Some recommendations: - Find a better mail client, the default is archaic. - ProtonVPN truly speaks for itself. - AdGuard For Safari is unbeatable. - The Unarchiver, for all your unzipping needs. - Infuse or INAA for video media. - CotEditor for your coding/text editing. - Rectangle for app window snapping. - LuLu stops unauthorized outgoing connects. - Do Not Disturb, if you leave it unattended often. - Aerials is beautiful. Make it your screensaver.
  • MacOS alternatives to Atom
    2 projects | /r/MacOS | 4 Feb 2023
    As others gave mentioned VSCode is probably the best replacement but for something less overkill I often use CotEditor. It’s downloaded via the App Store but is free, open source, apple silicon ready and also has a command line helper tool. https://coteditor.com
  • Atom has been archived
    16 projects | /r/programming | 16 Dec 2022
    I like CotEditor

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glance and CotEditor you can also consider the following projects:

macos-auto-clicker - A simple auto clicker for macOS Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.

TextMate - TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later

qlmarkdown - QuickLook generator for Markdown files.

neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust

Gifski - 🌈 Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac

script-commands - Script Commands let you tailor Raycast to your needs. Think of them as little productivity boosts throughout your day.

QLMarkdown - macOS Quick Look extension for Markdown files.

sublime_text - Issue tracker for Sublime Text

iOSLocalizationEditor - Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS and macOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side

alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS

Plash - 💦 Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper

CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.

glance vs macos-auto-clicker CotEditor vs TextMate glance vs qlmarkdown CotEditor vs neovide glance vs Gifski CotEditor vs script-commands glance vs QLMarkdown CotEditor vs sublime_text glance vs iOSLocalizationEditor CotEditor vs alt-tab-macos glance vs Plash CotEditor vs CodeEdit