Johannes GrofDE
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BriskEdit

A native Mac editor with a terminal and Markdown preview.

BriskEdit is a native editor built with SwiftUI and AppKit. It has an integrated terminal, Markdown preview and a Run button that finds the right toolchain for the file you are editing.

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Open source
Latest release
v0.6.2
Platform
macOS
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Updated
Nov 4, 2026
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★ 5 stars
Stack
Swift · SwiftUI · AppKit

Problem

I wanted a Mac editor for small coding tasks, with a terminal and Markdown preview already built in.

What I built

A native editor on TextKit 2 and AppKit with an integrated SwiftTerm terminal, a toolchain-discovering Run button, Markdown preview, gitignore-aware find, and LSP completion from the servers already on your machine. No Electron, no telemetry.

Highlights

  • Native text editing with TextKit 2 and AppKit.
  • One Run button discovers the toolchain per file (clang, swiftc, python3, node, cargo, go).
  • Integrated SwiftTerm terminal, live Markdown preview, and gitignore-aware find-in-folder.
  • LSP completion and diagnostics from your own language servers. No marketplace, no telemetry, no Electron.

Developer setup

clone
git clone https://github.com/jx-grxf/BriskEdit.git && cd BriskEdit