Moped

What is Moped?

Moped is a native plain-text editor for macOS designed for people who want a fast, simple place to work with text files. It focuses on everyday editing without rich-text formatting, embedded fonts, or page layout, which makes it useful for notes, configuration files, code snippets, and other plain-text documents. The app follows standard Mac document behavior, including opening recent files, duplicating documents, reverting changes, and working with window tabs. It also includes syntax highlighting for many languages, theme support, find and replace with regular expressions, and tools such as line numbers, word wrap, auto-indentation, and jump to line. Moped is published by Roberto Machorro and is available for modern versions of macOS.

Key features

• Open and edit plain-text files in a lightweight native Mac app
• Use syntax highlighting for many programming and markup languages
• Find and replace text with regular expression support
• Work with line numbers, word wrap, auto-indentation, and comment toggling
• Preserve text encodings and existing line endings when saving files
• Navigate quickly with jump to line and standard macOS document controls

Safety overview

Status: Safe

Moped is a standard text editor for macOS, so its normal activity is reading and writing the files you choose to open. That level of file access is expected for this type of app. If you use it for notes, code, or configuration files, keep normal backups of important documents and be mindful before saving changes over existing files.

Recommendation: Keep Moped if you use it for plain-text editing or quick file changes on your Mac. Remove it only if you no longer want this editor, knowing that uninstalling the app will simply stop you from opening and editing files with it until you reinstall or choose another editor.

Common paths

• /Applications/Moped.app

Related apps

• TextEdit
• BBEdit
• CotEditor
• Visual Studio Code

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