BBEdit
Legendary text and code editor
Only for Mac
Free · In-App Purchases
BBEdit is the leading professional text, code, and markup editor for the Macintosh.
As the "go to" tool for web site designers, web application developers, writers, and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text, code, and HTML/XML markup.
As a replacement for TextWrangler, BBEdit is built by the same developers, using the same award-winning technology, and is identical to TextWrangler in every way you're used to. Unlike TextWrangler, BBEdit is Apple Silicon native, and compatible with contemporary macOS versions.
An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit’s best-of-class features, including: grep pattern matching; search and replace across multiple files; project definition tools; function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages; code folding; FTP and SFTP open and save; AppleScript, Automator, and Shortcuts support; Unix scripting support; text and code completion; a complete set of robust HTML tools; and more.
BBEdit offers a 30-day evaluation period (beginning the first time you use it on your computer), during which its full feature set is available.
During the evaluation period, BBEdit is fully functional. After the evaluation period has expired, you can continue to use BBEdit for free, forever, with no nag screens or unsolicited interruptions.
In “free mode”, BBEdit provides a modified set of features, which incorporates a powerful set of core features. Using BBEdit in free mode costs you nothing, while providing an upgrade path to advanced features and capabilities.
To enable BBEdit’s advanced features after the evaluation period is over, you will need to have an active BBEdit subscription. Subscriptions are available on either a monthly or annual basis.
An active subscription gives you access to all of BBEdit’s advanced features, including any new features that we introduce during updates or major upgrades, for as long as the subscription is in good standing.
Please see our comparison chart for a detailed listing of which advanced features are available with a subscription.
Subscription terms and conditions:
We do not collect any data from your use of BBEdit, whether or not a subscription is in effect.
Your interactions with BBEdit and with Bare Bones Software, Inc. are protected by our privacy policy.
Your use of BBEdit is governed by the terms of its end-user license.
When you purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase.
Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you cancel your subscription at least 24 hours prior to the end of the currently active subscription period. Your iTunes Account will be charged for the renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the currently active subscription period, and your account history will reflect the cost of the renewal.
You can manage your subscription and cancel automatic renewal by going to your "Manage my Subscriptions" page after purchase.
Purchasing a subscription will permanently end your evaluation period, and forfeits any unused portion of the evaluation period, if applicable.
For the full text of the BBEdit end user license for Mac App Store customers, please visit this page on our web site: https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/appstore/terms.html
more I was lookinhg for an editor that did not hang my mac and could handle multiple opened files. It does everything seamlessly and the SFTP feature has made my life very very easy.10/10 would recommend.
I was lookinhg for an editor that did not hang my mac and could handle multiple opened files. It does everything seamlessly and the SFTP feature has made my life very very easy.10/10 would recommend.
Is close and compact and has a good view, but doesn't show all open tabs and text files.
Is close and compact and has a good view, but doesn't show all open tabs and text files.
Found it to be super easy to use, the experience is good!
Found it to be super easy to use, the experience is good!
Best Text editor I have used so far.
Best Text editor I have used so far.
BBEdit 15.5.5 is a free and recommended update for all customers, and includes changes to work around a bug in macOS 26 which caused the application to appear to be stalling intermittently, as well as fixes for reported symptoms. Complete details are available in the application change notes via the Help menu.
BBEdit 15.5 introduced support for the "Writing Tools" feature in macOS Sequoia; a new "Workspaces" feature for easily switching between working environments; changes to improve the experience when executing long-running Unix scripts; support for FTP transport-layer security (FTPS); and numerous internal performance improvements. There are many other additions and refinements.
15.5.5 17 Feb
BBEdit 15.5.4 is a free and recommended update for all customers, and includes fixes for reported symptoms, as well as changes for improved appearance when running on macOS 26 "Tahoe". Complete details are available in the application change notes via the Help menu.
BBEdit 15.5 introduced support for the "Writing Tools" feature in macOS Sequoia; a new "Workspaces" feature for easily switching between working environments; changes to improve the experience when executing long-running Unix scripts; support for FTP transport-layer security (FTPS); and numerous internal performance improvements. There are many other additions and refinements.
15.5.4 18/11/2025
BBEdit 15.5.3 is a free and recommended update for all customers, and includes fixes for reported symptoms, including a compatibility fix for recent OpenAI API changes, a crash involving the built-in FTP client, and others. Complete details are available in the application change notes via the Help menu.
BBEdit 15.5 introduced support for the "Writing Tools" feature in macOS Sequoia; a new "Workspaces" feature for easily switching between working environments; changes to improve the experience when executing long-running Unix scripts; support for FTP transport-layer security (FTPS); and numerous internal performance improvements. There are many other additions and refinements.
15.5.3 09/09/2025
BBEdit 15.5.2 is a free and recommended update for all customers, and includes fixes for reported symptoms, including incomplete output from Unix scripts, a crash when switching appearances, and others. Complete details are available in the application change notes via the Help menu.
BBEdit 15.5 introduced support for the "Writing Tools" feature in macOS Sequoia; a new "Workspaces" feature for easily switching between working environments; changes to improve the experience when executing long-running Unix scripts; support for FTP transport-layer security (FTPS); and numerous internal performance improvements. There are many other additions and refinements.
15.5.2 15/07/2025
BBEdit 15.5.1 is a free and recommended update for all customers, and includes fixes for reported symptoms, including failure to execute text factories with a very large number of operations; a cosmetic issue when highlighting matches of selected text while using a dark color scheme, and others. Complete details are available in the application change notes via the Help menu.
BBEdit 15.5 introduced support for the "Writing Tools" feature in macOS Sequoia; a new "Workspaces" feature for easily switching between working environments; changes to improve the experience when executing long-running Unix scripts; support for FTP transport-layer security (FTPS); and numerous internal performance improvements. There are many other additions and refinements.
15.5.1 18/06/2025
BBEdit 15.5 is a free and recommended update for all customers. It features support for the "Writing Tools" feature in macOS Sequoia; a new "Workspaces" feature for easily switching between working environments; changes to improve the experience when executing long-running Unix scripts; support for FTP transport-layer security (FTPS); and numerous internal performance improvements. There are many other additions and refinements, and fixes for reported issues. Complete details are available in the application change notes via the Help menu.
15.5 28/05/2025
BBEdit 15.1.4 is a free and recommended update for all BBEdit 15 customers. This update includes a change to address a potential security issue when running AppleScript scripts from BBEdit's "Startup Items", "Shutdown Items", and other support folders.
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: AI chat worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.1.4 18/02/2025
BBEdit 15.1.3 is a free and recommended update for all BBEdit 15 customers. This update includes assorted performance, stability, and correctness improvements as well as changes to address customer-reported symptoms.
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: AI chat worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.1.3 10/12/2024
BBEdit 15.1.2 is a free and recommended update for all BBEdit 15 customers. This update includes assorted performance, stability, and correctness improvements as well as changes to address customer-reported symptoms.
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: AI chat worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.1.2 22/08/2024
BBEdit 15.1.1 is a free and recommended update for all BBEdit 15 customers. This update includes adjustments to the default window size calculations, as well as fixes for various customer-reported issues.
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: AI chat worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.1.1 06/06/2024
BBEdit 15.1 is a free and recommended update for all BBEdit 15 customers. It adds support for Claude and Ollama to its AI chat worksheets, with provision for future expansion. Also included are interface refinements, usability improvements, and fixes for reported issues.
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: AI chat worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.1 15/05/2024
This maintenance update is recommended for all BBEdit 15 customers, and includes changes to address reported issues, as well as performance and stability improvements. This update also includes improvements to: the Minimap, Find Differences, R language syntax coloring, and interactions with macOS security measures.
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: ChatGPT Worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.0.3 08/04/2024
This maintenance update is recommended for all BBEdit 15 customers, and includes changes to address reported issues, as well as performance and stability improvements. This update also includes improvements to: accessibility for VoiceOver users; Text Factories; and the built-in FTP/SFTP support (among various other things).
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: ChatGPT Worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.0.2 18/03/2024
This maintenance update is recommended for all BBEdit 15 customers, and includes changes to address reported issues, as well as performance and stability improvements. This update also includes improvements to: accessibility for VoiceOver users; Language Server Protocol workspace detection; and ChatGPT worksheet setup and usage.
As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: ChatGPT Worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more.
15.0.1 05/02/2024
BBEdit 15 is a major upgrade, which includes a variety of new features, internal improvements, and refinements. Leading the list are: ChatGPT Worksheets; significant interface refinements in the Projects feature; a minimap to improve navigation; Cheat Sheets for Markdown and Clippings placeholders, with a model for creating and adding your own cheat sheets; a Grep-based "Text Merge" command for advanced text processing; refinements and improvements to the built-in Git support; live validation of Grep patterns in the Find and Multi-File Search windows; an overhauled interface in the Text Factory editor; accessibility improvements; and much much more. As always, complete details are available in the change notes, available via BBEdit's "Help" menu.
15.0 12/01/2024
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.9 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes fixes for reported issues, as well as changes to improve compatibility with macOS Sonoma. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.9 07/11/2023
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.8 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes fixes for reported issues, as well as changes to improve compatibility with macOS Sonoma. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.8 26/10/2023
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.7 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes fixes for reported issues, some of which may affect performance and stability for some customers. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.7 22/08/2023
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.6 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes corrections to font rendering behavior when ligatures are globally disabled via expert preferences, as well as fixes for other reported issues. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.6 23/05/2023
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.5 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes improved behavior when used with the "rust-analyzer" language server, fixes for reported issues, and additional performance and stability improvements. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.5 05/04/2023
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.4 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes improved compatibility with macOS Ventura, fixes for reported issues, and additional performance and stability improvements. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.4 24/02/2023
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.3 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes improved compatibility with macOS Ventura, fixes for reported issues, and additional performance and stability improvements. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.3 19/01/2023
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.2 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes improved compatibility with macOS Ventura, fixes for reported issues, and additional performance and stability improvements. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.2 13/12/2022
The BBEdit 14.6 release features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. The 14.6.1 update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and includes fixes for reported issues as well as additional performance and stability improvements. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6.1 11/10/2022
BBEdit 14.6 features improvements to text rendering, including support for font ligatures, expanded Unicode compatibility, and improved performance. This update is recommended for all BBEdit 14 customers, and also includes fixes for reported issues as well as performance and stability improvements. Complete details are available in the change notes available on the Help menu, as well as via the product support link on this page.
14.6 03/10/2022
BBEdit 15.5.5 is a free and recommended update for all customers, and includes changes to work around a bug in macOS 26 which caused the application to appear to be stalling intermittently, as well as fixes for reported symptoms. Complete details are available in the application change notes via the Help menu.
BBEdit 15.5 introduced support for the "Writing Tools" feature in macOS Sequoia; a new "Workspaces" feature for easily switching between working environments; changes to improve the experience when executing long-running Unix scripts; support for FTP transport-layer security (FTPS); and numerous internal performance improvements. There are many other additions and refinements.
more Version 15.5.5 17 Feb
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Dark Interface 