AeroVim

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

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Features

• ⚡ Fast — Hardware-accelerated SkiaSharp rendering for a smooth, responsive editing experience
• ✨ Elegant — Blur, Acrylic, Mica transparency effects and full font ligature support
• 🐚 Shell Integration — File type associations and system context menu support
• 🖥️ Cross-Platform — Runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux

Supported Platforms

Platform	Runtime ID
Windows x64	win-x64
macOS ARM64 (Apple Silicon)	osx-arm64
macOS x64	osx-x64
Linux x64	linux-x64

Download

Grab the latest release for your platform from GitHub 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.

dotnet restore aerovim.sln
dotnet build aerovim.sln -c Release

Publish

# Windows
dotnet publish AeroVim/AeroVim.csproj -c Release -r win-x64

# macOS (Apple Silicon)
dotnet publish AeroVim/AeroVim.csproj -c Release -r osx-arm64

# macOS (Intel)
dotnet publish AeroVim/AeroVim.csproj -c Release -r osx-x64

# Linux
dotnet publish AeroVim/AeroVim.csproj -c Release -r linux-x64

On macOS, publishing automatically creates an AeroVim.app bundle. Copy it to /Applications/:

cp -R AeroVim/bin/Release/net10.0/osx-arm64/AeroVim.app /Applications/

License

GNU General Public License v2 © aerovim Developers