First public release of Scribe — a native macOS text editor inheriting the spirit of notepad--, reborn in SwiftUI.

Highlights

• Editor core — Scintilla 5.6.1 + Lexilla 5.4.5, 8 language lexers, 6 macOS-native themes (UI / Editor decoupled, 24-slot per-theme overrides), multi-cursor / column select, Inline Color Swatches.
• Workspace — multi-tab + file tree, Quick Open (⌘P), Command Palette (⌘⇧P), Find / Find-in-Files with regex, Diff View, Markdown Preview (GFM tables / task lists / footnotes).
• Tools — Text Tools workbench, Hash & Encode (MD5/SHA-1/256/512/CRC32 + JWT), Line Ops, Format/Minify (JSON/XML/CSS/SQL), Generator Pack (UUID/Lorem/Password/Timestamp/QR), Regex Playground, HEX Viewer.
• Git — gutter, Source Control sidebar (commit/amend, fetch/pull/push, per-hunk stage, Project Diff multibuffer, Inline Blame).
• i18n — English / 简体中文, 700+ keys.
• Engineering — zero external SwiftPM deps, Swift 6 strict concurrency clean, 601 tests.

Install

Download Scribe-1.0.0.dmg below. Drag Scribe.app to Applications.

First launch: macOS may show "Scribe.app cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified" — the binary is unsigned. Right-click the app, choose Open, then confirm. One-time prompt.

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/yourChainGod/Scribe.git
cd Scribe
swift run Scribe # quick run
bash Scripts/build_app.sh # produce build/Scribe.app
bash Scripts/build_dmg.sh # produce build/Scribe-<version>.dmg

See README for the full feature tour and screenshots.