A Free Text Editor for Mac

Tincta is an elegant one-window text editor for macOS. It is intuitive to use on personal tasks like writing blog posts, drafting emails or jotting down grocery lists. But it also has all functionality you need for professional webdesign and programming.

Features

Tincta comes with all the features you expect from a professional text editor:

• Syntax coloring for over 65 languages
• Search and replace with RegEx support
• Fast and reliable line numbering
• Full unicode support
• Multiple built in color themes
• Custom color themes
• Fast and snappy native Mac app (Intel and Apple Silicon)

And lots of useful little details that will make you love it:

• Auto close brackets
• Auto indent lines
• Page guide
• Automatically wrap lines
• Full drag & drop support
• Indent selected text with tab
• Search and replace with RegEx support
• Change case
• Show invisible characters
• Convert between text encodings
• Convert line endings
• Convert tabs/spaces
• Spell checker
• Printing
• Block selection
• Octopus icon

Looks

Availability

Until Fall 2022 Tincta was available on the Mac App Store. But as it is no longer compatible with macOS Ventura, we pulled it from the Store.

And as Tincta is open source, you can still check out the repository and build it yourself (on Monterey or older Systems). This should not be too hard. Just take a look at the read-me.

Why Open Source

For a while now we concentrate our efforts on Wokabulary, a flash card based foreign languages vocabulary learning app for Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Tincta still has many fans, though, (including ourselves) and we don't want to just abandon this useful tool. Therefore we decided to open source Tincta.