Version 2.0.0 · 9 August 2026

Download EEditor

Free, no account, no telemetry. Pick your platform.

macOS

macOS 11 Big Sur or later · Intel & Apple Silicon in one image

Download .dmg

12.5 MB

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit

Download installer

4.0 MB · or the .msi package (5.6 MB)

Linux

x86-64 · glibc 2.35+ (Ubuntu 22.04 and newer)

Download AppImage

79.7 MB · or the .deb package (6.1 MB)

Build it yourself

MIT licensed · Rust + Node

View the source

App and engine are both open source. npm install && npm run tauri build.

Every build, with checksums, is on the releases page. An iPhone and iPad version is in testing and will be announced here.

First launch

macOS

These builds are ad-hoc signed, not signed with an Apple Developer ID, so Gatekeeper will refuse the first double-click. Open it once the long way and macOS remembers:

  1. Open the .dmg and drag EEditor to Applications.
  2. Right-click the app in Applications and choose Open.
  3. Confirm in the dialog. Every launch after this is a normal double-click.

If the dialog doesn't offer Open, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway next to the message about EEditor.

Windows

The installer is unsigned, so SmartScreen shows a blue warning the first time. Click More info, then Run anyway. The .msi is the same application if you'd rather deploy it that way.

Linux

The AppImage needs no installation — mark it executable and run it:

chmod +x eeditor-2.0.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./eeditor-2.0.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Or install the Debian package:

sudo apt install ./eeditor-2.0.0-linux-amd64.deb

Both need a WebKitGTK runtime, which every mainstream desktop already ships. On a minimal install: sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0.

Where your notes go

On first run EEditor creates a workspace folder and opens it. Use open… in the sidebar to point it somewhere else — a Dropbox folder, a git repository, an external drive. The choice is remembered.

Everything is a plain file. There is no database of your notes, no lock file and no proprietary format; the SQLite database holds only the agenda and any tables you create yourself in EELisp.

Verifying a download

GitHub publishes a SHA-256 digest for every asset — open the release, expand the asset list, and compare it with what you have: 

shasum -a 256 eeditor-next_2.0.0_universal.dmg

Release notes

2.0.0 — the cross-platform rewrite.

  • Windows and Linux builds for the first time; macOS ships as one universal binary.
  • New engine: EELisp rebuilt in Rust, with tail calls, working macros and transactions.
  • Keybindings are now a file of EELisp you edit, with (on-start …) to choose the note you land on.
  • Open files from outside the workspace by drag-and-drop or Open With, in place or copied in.
  • Editor tabs, wiki-link autocomplete, backlinks bar, PDF export, and a calendar you can drag items around in.

Older Mac-only releases are no longer distributed here.