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TextWrangler

TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.

What is a text editor?

At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a wide variety of tasks from cleaning up data, to editing configuration files on your Mac or server, to writing HTML or coding.

Who needs TextWrangler?

You do! Because it lets you deal with situations like these.

TextWrangler is a…

General Purpose Text Editor
Programmer’s Text Editor
Unix And Server Administrator’s Tool
Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator
Good Mac OS Citizen
Powerfully Useful Tool
product developed in the best traditions of Bare Bones Software, with high performance, ease of use, a rich feature set, and the ability to read its own release notes.

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How do I get TextWrangler?

Download TextWrangler here. (TextWrangler is only available as an electronic download.)

If you already have TextWrangler and would like to update to the latest version, please go to our updates page.

To upgrade to BBEdit, which offers professionals even more power, from advanced HTML and CSS tools to seamless integration with version control systems and much more visit our web store.

TextWrangler 3.1 System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.4 or later (10.4.11, 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or later recommended)
Universal application (for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs)

TextWrangler vs. BBEdit vs. BBEdit Lite

TextWrangler is a very capable text editor. What sets BBEdit apart is its extensive professional feature set including Web authoring capabilities and software development tools. BBEdit’s additional features for professionals.

TextWrangler is considerably more modern and capable than BBEdit Lite. Among other things, it can open files from (and save them) to remote FTP and SFTP servers, offers a significantly more powerful grep engine, supports multi-byte and non-Roman text files, can perform Find Differences on pairs of files or folders, and can be invoked from the Unix command line.