SubEthaEdit
Shares rank 47 of 56 text editors by recommenders
Free, open-source Mac text editor praised for real-time collaborative editing and Markdown side-by-side view; one critic says the novelty wears off.
Free, open-source Mac text editor praised for real-time collaborative editing and Markdown side-by-side view; one critic says the novelty wears off.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Real-time collaborative editing tech
“SubEthaEdit was such an amazing tech when we were using to collaborate internationally”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Zed is our office” Markdown side-by-side view
“It supports Markdown side-by-side view along with numerous other languages.”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS”
Other text editors people recommend
The four most recommended other text editors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zed | 700 | 430 | 62% | 13 | 6 mo57 owners | — |
| GNU Emacs | 648 | 207 | 76% | 13 | 20 yrs158 owners | Approved |
| Vim | 513 | 127 | 80% | 13 | 20 yrs55 owners | Approved |
| Visual Studio Code | 485 | 547 | 47% | 12 | 2 yrs13 owners | — |
| SubEthaEditThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Never found a use for this sort of thing once novelty wore off.”
“Someone else in this thread recommended SubEtha. I'll take a look there, instead.”
“It supports Markdown side-by-side view along with numerous other languages.”
“a small team could, in a few months, produce an amazing app that solved real problems and gained notoriety”
“SubEthaEdit was such an amazing tech when we were using to collaborate internationally”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.