BBEdit

About

BBEdit is a professional, award-winning HTML and text editor for the Macintosh, developed by Bare Bones Software in the United States. Specifically crafted to meet the needs of web authors and software developers, this venerable product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text, including syntax highlighting, offline functionality, live preview, code completion, and support for multiple languages. Operating on a freemium, proprietary license, BBEdit is lauded by users as an extremely fast, robust, and versatile editor, capable of handling large datasets and complex operations like regex-based search and replace, sorting, and filtering duplicates. It is recognized as one of the most customizable, reliable, and feature-rich text editors available for macOS, often recommended as the go-to alternative for those accustomed to Notepad++ on Windows, and offers a free mode that succeeded TextWrangler.