TextWrangler is now BBEdit — and still free! It's time to switch.
TextWrangler was an all-purpose text and code editor for macOS, based on the same award-winning technology and user interface as BBEdit, our leading professional HTML and text editor.
TextWrangler was always a feature-subset of the paid, full-featured BBEdit, from barebones. Without a paid license, BBEdit runs just like TextWrangler & is a direct replacement for it. Same maker, same look, same feature-set, opens all your saved documents, runs without an added license. The only action you need to do is install the app. Bare Bones Software develops and publishes software products only for macOS and iOS. This web site is your source for news, product information, and technical assistance for all of our products. Got something to say?
If you are an existing TextWrangler customer, it’s time to switch to BBEdit.
✅ Familiar ✅ Free ✅ Forever ✅ No Nagging!
Familiar
We promise that you will feel right at home, because BBEdit and TextWrangler are identical in every way that you’re used to. They’re built on the same foundation, by the same developers, with the same care; and they work the same way.
Here’s what TextWrangler looks like:
And here’s what BBEdit looks like:
See the resemblance? (BBEdit looks a lot better on those high-resolution Retina displays, too.)
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Free
Like TextWrangler, BBEdit is free to download and use. There’s a set of advanced features that you can pay for — if you want to. But you’re not required to pay anything if TextWrangler has been doing the job for you.
When you start using BBEdit, there’s a 30-day period during which you can use all of BBEdit’s advanced features. When that period ends, BBEdit goes into “Free Mode”, in which it offers all of the features that TextWrangler had — and then some — at no charge.
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Forever
Since we first released BBEdit in 1991, we’ve been committed to providing a first-class free text editor for Mac users. We have not wavered in this commitment, nor will we.
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No nagging!
If you decide to use BBEdit in Free Mode, we promise: no splash screens, no unsolicited interruptions. Ever. Just like TextWrangler.
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Questions?
We know it’s a big change, and you probably have questions. We have answers.
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How do I get BBEdit?
Download BBEdit here. (BBEdit is only available as an electronic download. Its license agreement is available here.)
If you already have BBEdit and would like to update to the latest version, please go to our updates page.
Textwrangler Mac
You can also get BBEdit from the Mac App Store. You can read more about BBEdit in the Mac App Store here.
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TextWrangler Editor's Review
Quickly and easily create and modify text and HTML/XML files with this industry leading text editor for Mac.
Today, many people write their own apps. Finding the right editor or tool to write the code in, can be a challenge. Some times you just want to code and not bring up the how IDE or you have an idea and just want to quickly jot it down without running a huge program. Its for this reason I really like TextWrangler. It’s a professional, but budget featured, HTML and text editor for Mac.
TextWrangler is a general-purpose text editor for light-duty composition, text file editing and manipulation of other text-oriented data. TextWrangler supports working with both plain-text and Unicode files. However, TextWrangler does not support files written using right-to-left writing systems, such as Hebrew or Arabic.
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TextWrangler has some pretty cool features. It can do single and multi-file search and replace functions, with file filtering options. It has flexible grep-style pattern-based searching capabilities, based on PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expression). You can also use the app to do a DIFF between two files and then merge the differences into a single file.
App Pro’s: Free, advanced search capabilities
App Con’s: won't work with right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic
Conclusion: If you're coding, then you need to take a look at TextWrangler. Aside from being free, the app has a number of programming functions that coders of all experience levels will appreciate. It has support for unlimited undo/redo as well as multiple clipboards so you can copy and paste a number of different code snippets from one or more files into others that you may be working on. The app also supports splittable editing windows so that you can view two different locations in a file at the same time. Again, this is an awesome app; and one that I will likely be using as I learn to code.