Neon Vision Editor for Mac
A lightweight native code and text editor with syntax highlighting, previews, project tools, and shared-file synchronization.
Free
In English
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Follow this appDeveloper: Hilthart Pedersen
Neon Vision Editor overview
Neon Vision Editor is a native Apple editor for code, text, and Markdown on macOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. It combines fast file access, syntax highlighting, tabbed editing, project navigation, previews, and optional AI assistance in a focused workspace.
Documents stored in iCloud Drive, network folders, or edited by another app can refresh while they are open. Clean tabs update automatically, while unsaved local changes remain protected through reviewable Keep Local, Reload, and Compare actions.
Features
- Syntax highlighting for Swift, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, Markdown, TeX/LaTeX, and many other languages and formats.
- Tabbed editing with per-file language selection, session recovery, multiple windows, Vim-style editing, and large-file handling.
- External file synchronization for documents changed on another device or by another application.
- GitHub Flavored Markdown, HTML, and SVG previews with syntax-colored code blocks, multiple reader templates, synchronized editor-preview scrolling, and PDF export.
- Markdown project preview with searchable cards, file paths, excerpts, headings, file sizes, image thumbnails, grid or list layouts, and indexing status.
- Optional AI assistant with contextual questions about the current file, selections, project structure, Markdown, README files, requirements files, and code in multiple programming languages.
- Optional Apple Intelligence or user-configured AI providers with saved chat sessions, cancellation, timeouts, and reviewable Markdown conversion.
- Project sidebar with Files, Search, Git, and PTY-backed Terminal workflows on macOS.
- Regex Find and Replace, Replace All, Find in Files, Quick Open, table of contents, code minimap, and project tree navigation.
- Contextual Markdown formatting for headings, lists, links, quotes, code, images, tables, and document structure.
- Code snapshots, starter templates, native SwiftUI and AppKit/UIKit interfaces, and no telemetry.
What's new in version 2.0.0
Fixed
- Fixed stale document content after external file changes, including rewrites with unchanged file size and modification time.
- Fixed Command-Up/Down navigation and Shift-selection in large documents and oversized single-line files.
- Fixed Option-Delete word deletion for Unicode text.
- Prevented ordinary notes containing commas from incorrectly opening as CSV tables.
- Fixed overlapping font controls and Settings sizing that could leave controls inaccessible above the Dock.
- Added a visible Close button to What’s New while preserving Escape dismissal.
- Improved terminal handling of fragmented Unicode output, progress updates, cursor movement, clearing commands, and text styles.
Added
- Added Danish, French, Spanish, and Japanese localization alongside English, German, and Simplified Chinese.
- Added opt-in nearby text-document transfer with pairing codes, encrypted transport, receiver approval, and independent document copies up to 4 MB.
- Added native text-encoding choices, including Shift-JIS, with saved preferences and non-lossy saving.
- Added configurable Join Lines and Format JSON keyboard shortcuts.
- Added a Settings option to edit CSV/TSV files as plain text instead of tables.
- Added accessible left and right controls for navigating overflowing document tabs.
- Added experimental, opt-in Jev ranking for optional external AI chat context, with explicit consent and secure credential storage.
Improved
- Made switching between open documents faster, including large Markdown and source files.
- Reduced unnecessary Markdown preview reloads while preserving the preview scroll position.
- Preserved manual scrolling through overflowing document tabs.
- Added reordering for custom macOS toolbar actions, including optional preset and AI-provider controls.
- Organized Markdown preview and AI provider settings into dedicated sections.
- Improved cancellation of project indexing by stopping obsolete folder scans.
- Expanded translations across Settings, editor actions, search, Git status, sharing, and accessibility labels.
Neon Vision Editor for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.0.0
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Aug 2, 2026
Version: 1.1.1
Nope. Non-stop pinwheeling after opening the sidebar. The app appeared to be opening a large number of files and all I did was tell it to show the sidebar. 300+ MB+ memory use in Activity monitor. Also, no Ada syntax highlighting. Come on, folks, Ada is a top-20 language.
