AeroVim

A fast, elegant, and cross-platform vim/neovim frontend

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AeroVim screenshot showing a Neovim editor with a beautiful acrylic transparency effect over a space-themed desktop background

Features

A modern Neovim experience with native performance and stunning visuals.

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Fast

Hardware-accelerated rendering on modern .NET for a smooth, responsive editing experience.

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Elegant

Blur, Acrylic, Mica transparency effects and full font ligature support — your editor, beautiful.

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Shell Integration

File type associations and system context menu support — open files in AeroVim right from your OS.

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Cross-Platform

Runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. One editor, every desktop.

Get Started

Download a pre-built release or build from source.

📦 Download

Grab the latest release for your platform from GitHub Releases.

Go to Releases
macOS note: Unsigned builds may be blocked by Gatekeeper. Run xattr -cr /Applications/AeroVim.app before first launch.

🔨 Build from Source

Requires the .NET 10 SDK. 

# Restore & build
dotnet restore aerovim.sln
dotnet build aerovim.sln -c Release

# Publish for your platform
dotnet publish AeroVim/AeroVim.csproj \
  -c Release -r win-x64
Tip: Replace win-x64 with osx-arm64, osx-x64, or linux-x64 for other platforms.