A love letter to Notepad++,
reimagined for macOS.
For decades, developers and power users on Windows have relied on Notepad++ as their ultimate utility tool—a fast, lightweight editor that is absolutely dependable. It is the tool that never fails, never complains, and perfectly preserves your work.
Incise was born from a simple question: Why doesn't macOS have an editor with that same relentless reliability and speed?
Incise brings the best of that classic desktop philosophy to the Mac. It is a native Swift and Cocoa application, built for lightning-fast performance, wrapped in a premium Apple-centric visual aesthetic.
Core Philosophies & Features
Zero-Loss Session Recovery
Drafts are cached in real-time to disk. Quit the app, restart your Mac, or lose power—when Incise re-launches, your unsaved workspace is perfectly restored, exactly as you left it, with zero prompts or warnings.
Native Performance & Scintilla
Powered by a customized native Scintilla engine, Incise handles large files without breaking a sweat, providing responsive syntax highlighting, code folding, and line navigation with zero UI lag.
Unified Editing Toolbar
A sleek, modern macOS-style unified titlebar and toolbar providing swift, physical access to actions like Find/Replace, Prettier formatting, Multi-tab navigation, and Sidebar toggles.
Real-Time Diff Layout
Compare your active edits with the saved version on disk instantly. Side-by-side differences are visualized natively, keeping you in complete control of your disk writes.
Claude Code Integration
Run Claude Code in your project and type /ide to connect to Incise. Claude sees your active file and selection, opens files on request, and proposes edits as a native diff you accept or reject—your editor stays the source of truth.