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BBEdit Returns To the Mac App Store (barebones.com) 22

Bare Bones Software this week announced the return of BBEdit, a popular text, code, and markup editor, to the Mac App Store after a nearly five year hiatus. Bare Bones Software: When the Mac App Store debuted in 2011, BBEdit was one of its first products available for sale. However, due to technical and business constraints we encountered in the store, we decided to withdraw BBEdit from the Mac App Store in 2014. Following BBEdit's exit from the Mac App Store, we had many conversations with our customers, and with Apple, regarding the issues that we had encountered with the store. In the spring of 2018, Bare Bones and Apple announced that, subsequent to the release of macOS Mojave (10.14) and the accompanying refresh of the Mac App Store, BBEdit would be returning to the store.

This was made possible by changes to the OS itself which allow Mac App Store versions of BBEdit to function to their fullest extent while complying with Mac App Store rules; as well as changes to the Mac App Store business mechanics which make it possible for us to distribute our software through the Mac App Store as part of a sustainable business model.
A limited features version of BBEdit is free to download and use, while the suite with all the features is priced at $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year. BBEdit remains available on a perpetual license basis for $49.99 via Bare Bones Software's online store and at participating resellers.

Further reading: The Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps Has Thrived For More Than 25 Years.
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BBEdit Returns To the Mac App Store

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  • by OzPeter ( 195038 ) on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:03PM (#58392192)

    I'm still using the free TextWrangler from Bare Bones. It works fine for me on High Sierra even though Bare Bons says

    If you are an existing TextWrangler customer, it’s time to switch to BBEdit. We promise that you will feel right at home, because the two products are identical in every way that you’re used to. And you still don’t have to pay anything, unless you want to support us by buying a license.

    TextWrangler is not compatible with macOS 10.13 (High Sierra). Please install and use BBEdit instead.

    Of course my MacBook pro can't do Mojave, so that's another reason for sticking with TW as according to MacRumors

    The Mac App Store version requires macOS Mojave 10.14.2 or later, while the direct version requires macOS Sierra 10.12.6 or later.

    And I just checked the App Store and thankfully it won't let me download BBEdit.

    • > I'm still using the free TextWrangler from Bare Bones.

      Yep, me too on High Sierra 10.13.6 - I also quite like BlueFish but I usually run that on my Mac under an X session off of a Debian box.
  • by GlobalEcho ( 26240 ) on Friday April 05, 2019 @08:46PM (#58392902)

    BBEdit was great for its era, but I use other editors now. VSCode, for this formerly anti-Microsoft nerd, has been excellent.

  • It's not just back, it is all over the front page of the app store. Right now, 3 out of the 5 panels on my front page are glowing recommendations of BBEdit.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/KCQ5... [app.goo.gl]

  • ... unless it's as useful as vscode, or sublime, or atom.

    I'm not sure of the history, but for me, sublime was a game changer and then I adopted VSCode and haven't looked back.

    I'm unconvinced BBEdit will ever be able to catch up to editors such as this, as there's such a vast ecosystem of quality third party plugins to cover pretty much every need.

    I'll give it a whirl again though, for old times sake...

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