CotEditor vs Monaco Editor

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

CotEditor

13
24
+ 1
3
Monaco Editor

56
170
+ 1
17
Add tool

CotEditor vs Monaco Editor: What are the differences?

CotEditor: Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X. CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X; Monaco Editor: A browser based code editor. The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

CotEditor and Monaco Editor can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.

"Excellent support for Japanese encoding" is the top reason why over 2 developers like CotEditor, while over 3 developers mention "Out of the Box Intellisense" as the leading cause for choosing Monaco Editor.

CotEditor and Monaco Editor are both open source tools. Monaco Editor with 15.9K GitHub stars and 1.39K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CotEditor with 2.77K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks.

Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.
Learn More
Pros of CotEditor
Pros of Monaco Editor
  • 3
    Excellent support for Japanese encoding
  • 6
    Out of the Box Intellisense
  • 4
    More features than Ace
  • 3
    Power vscode, with all it's features
  • 2
    Microsoft Product
  • 1
    Accessibility
  • 1
    Good support for none-monospace fonts

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of CotEditor
Cons of Monaco Editor
    Be the first to leave a con
    • 6
      Microsoft

    Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

    What is CotEditor?

    CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X.

    What is Monaco Editor?

    The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code. It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

    Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

    What companies use CotEditor?
    What companies use Monaco Editor?
    See which teams inside your own company are using CotEditor or Monaco Editor.
    Sign up for StackShare EnterpriseLearn More

    Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

    What tools integrate with CotEditor?
    What tools integrate with Monaco Editor?
      No integrations found

      Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

      What are some alternatives to CotEditor and Monaco Editor?
      BBEdit
      It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.
      TextMate
      TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
      Visual Studio Code
      Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
      Sublime Text
      Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
      Vim
      Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
      See all alternatives