avim
avim is a lightweight, native macOS text editor
Details
- External ID
- 1260216
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- avim
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Productivity, Text Editors
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
avim is a lightweight, native macOS text editor built for writing, editing, and previewing plain text and Markdown files with a clean and distraction-free experience. Designed for users who want a simple, fast, and focused writing environment, avim keeps the interface minimal while providing the essential tools needed for everyday document work.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lightweight text editor for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight native macOS Markdown/text editor with standard file I/O, search, and WebKit/cmark preview is easily built using SwiftUI and existing Markdown parsing libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 44 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 45 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
- Text File Editor · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Markly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Vireo - Simple Markdown Editor for MacOS · ph · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- midcode · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- inkwell - Write without distraction. · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- macOS Native Markdown Reader with Vim Keybinding Using Swift · hn · 2026-06-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- QwikText · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Typeahead · ph · 2026-06-01 · 319 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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