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CotEditor

Developer Tools — The free plain-text editor for OS X [Text Editors, Tech]
Developer Toolsopen-sourceest. 2014
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 43.8 · 2/4
43.8
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
10
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 838 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
coteditor.com
edge
direct origin
server
GitHub.com
Tranco rank
#873,688
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

CotEditor's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 43.8 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 10 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Tinctadev-toolssimilar80%40.00.0● live
ImHexdev-toolssimilar80%43.20.0● live
Notepad++dev-toolssimilar80%49.4-0.3● live
Firefox Developer Editiondev-toolssimilar80%40.0+9.6● live
Vimtutordev-toolssimilar75%7.40.0■ inactive
TextWranglerdev-toolssimilar73%48.30.0● live
iTerm2dev-toolssimilar70%48.40.0● live
TLDR pagesdev-toolssimilar70%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelopen-source
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives1
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:40Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com1415alive
2026-08-19 14:36Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com899alive
2026-08-11 01:09Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com540alive
2026-08-08 23:27Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com267alive
2026-08-05 19:21Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com1855alive
2026-07-30 18:37Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com599alive
2026-07-26 15:19Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com380alive
2026-07-18 09:14Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com1496alive
2026-07-12 09:13Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com864alive
2026-07-04 13:21Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com758alive
2026-06-23 14:30Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com356alive
2026-06-21 17:35Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com51alive
2026-06-21 17:35Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com402alive
2026-06-20 06:57Z200coteditor.comGitHub.com1847alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · CotEditor · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/coteditor · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.