The program is a free and open-source graphical text editor included as part of the GNOME Core Applications.

[5] The adherence to their HIG is done by using the libadwaita library, and making gedit compliant with that would have required an extensive rewrite of gedit's code, so a new program was written from scratch instead.

[7] The program was officially announced in March 2021 via a blog post by Hergert.

[8] The text editor is built using the Adwaita design language[9] and GTK 4.

[10] The text editor has features including themes, dark mode, session restoration,[11] autosave,[5] the ability to zoom into text without changing the text's size,[12] custom font support, and opening files can be done via a popover box.