CLYR Type
Beautiful Text Editor
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
CLYR Type is a Mac text editor built to make the simple act of writing feel beautiful. A calm, minimal canvas puts your words and their whitespace first — horizontally or vertically, nothing else gets in the way.
JAPANESE, WRITTEN VERTICALLY
Press ⌥⌘V and the document you're in turns vertical. Punctuation and brackets switch to their vertical forms and Latin text rotates — the vertical typesetting your font was designed for. Each document remembers whether it is vertical, so a novel can stay vertical while your notes stay horizontal. And it prints vertically, too. (Line numbers and Typewriter Scrolling rest while vertical writing is on.)
100,000 LINES, STILL EFFORTLESS
Even with text files over 100,000 lines, your keystrokes appear without lag, scrolling stays buttery smooth, and files open in under a second. Only what's on screen gets drawn, so logs, data dumps, and book-length manuscripts stay just as light — vertical writing included.
BEAUTIFUL TYPOGRAPHY
Tune the font, size, line height, and letter spacing to your own reading comfort. Thoughtful defaults make long passages a pleasure right out of the box, and ⌘+ / ⌘- resize text instantly.
YOUR LINE, ALWAYS CENTERED
Turn on Typewriter Scrolling and the line you're writing stays fixed at the middle of the window. Your eyes hold one height instead of tracking down the page. Toggle it any time with ⌥⌘T.
PICK YOUR APPEARANCE
Light, Dark, and System, plus a sepia "Paper", a deep-blue "Midnight", and a translucent "Glass" that lets your desktop shine through. Appearance mode, colors, and glass are bundled into one-tap presets.
FIND & REPLACE WITH REGEX
Case sensitivity, regular expressions, and a live match count — with fast, viewport-only highlighting that keeps searching huge files snappy.
WIDE ENCODING & LINE-ENDING SUPPORT
UTF-8, Shift-JIS, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP, UTF-16/32, GB18030, Big5, and more. Switch line endings (LF/CR/CRLF) and toggle the UTF-8 BOM freely.
EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS, NATIVE TO THE MAC
Line numbers, current-line highlight, character counts, and printing with headers and footers. Tabs or spaces, keep-indent on new lines, trim trailing whitespace on save, auto save, and a read-only mode — all with the IME and accessibility quality you expect from macOS.
Simple, without compromise. Make writing more beautiful with CLYR Type.
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New Feature:
- Vertical writing (tategaki). Turn the current document vertical from View > Vertical Writing or with ⌥⌘V. Each document remembers whether it is vertical, and Settings > Display can open new documents vertically by default.
- Vertical printing. Documents set to vertical writing print as vertical pages, with headers, footers, and page numbers at the top and bottom of the page.
Bug fix:
- Fixed the editor not receiving focus right after a document opened, which left the caret hidden and dropped the first keystrokes.
- Fixed documents opening scrolled to the end instead of the beginning, which happened with vertical writing and with Typewriter Scrolling turned on.
- Fixed double-click selecting the wrong word while Typewriter Scrolling was on, because the text moved between the two clicks.
- Fixed jumping to a search match snapping back to the previously clicked line.
- Fixed clicks in the padding above and below the text not placing the caret while Typewriter Scrolling was on.
Change:
- With Typewriter Scrolling on, clicking a line now brings that line to the middle of the window as well. Dragging or double-clicking to select text no longer moves the view.
Note: line numbers and Typewriter Scrolling are unavailable while vertical writing is on.
The developer, CLYR Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- CLYR Inc.
- Size
- 392.6 KB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 CLYR Inc.
