Matcha

A lightweight, native macOS text editor built with a Zig core and a SwiftUI + Metal shell. See Why Matcha for an architecture overview.

Download

Download for Mac — open the DMG and drag to Applications.

Requires macOS (Apple Silicon).

Light and dark themes with matcha green accents — syncs with system appearance
Tab bar with drag-to-reorder for multiple open files per window
Multiple cursors (Cmd+D) with simultaneous editing
Syntax highlighting for Zig, Swift, C/C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Go, Lua, Shell, Markdown, JSON, TOML, and YAML
Color emoji with grapheme cluster segmentation (flags, families, skin tones)
CJK and fullwidth character support with automatic font fallback
Find and replace with case-sensitive and whole-word options
Command palette (Cmd+Shift+P) and fuzzy file finder (Cmd+P)
Buffer word completion (Escape)
Bracket matching, auto-pairing, and auto-indent
Indent guides, word-boundary line wrapping, current line highlight, trailing whitespace visualization
Go to Line (Cmd+L), comment toggling, duplicate/move line
Undo/redo, scroll past end
Metal-rendered text with glyph atlas and Retina support
Multi-window, drag-and-drop file opening, Open With support, CLI launcher
Auto-update notification via GitHub Releases

Requires Zig and Xcode Command Line Tools (xcrun, swiftc, iconutil).

zig build app      # build Matcha.app
zig build run      # build and launch
zig build test     # run unit tests

Matcha reads ~/.config/matcha/config:

appearance = auto
font-family = SF Mono
font-size = 14
tab-size = 4
insert-spaces = true
line-numbers = true
wrap-lines = true
auto-update = true

appearance can be auto (follows system), light, or dark. Set auto-update = false to disable the update checker.