Sigil for Mac
WYSIWYG e-book editor for the ePub format.
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Sigil overview
Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.
Features
- Free and open source software under GPLv3
- Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
- Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16
- Full EPUB spec support
- WYSIWYG editing
- Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View
- Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
- Table Of Contents editor
- Multi-level TOC support
- Book View fully supports the display of any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec
- SVG support
- Basic XPGT support
- Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode
- Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time
- Currently exports EPUB and SGF (Sigil native format); more will be added with time
- Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually)
- An actually usable user interface
- Native C++ application
What’s new in version 2.4.2
New Features
- Added new tool: 'Update OPF Manifest Media Types' to set unrecognized media types based on actual file contents
Bug Fixes
- ensure CodeView code highlighting colors coincide with dark/light themes on certain Linux DEs
- fix sigil-gumbo gumboc to work with Python 3.13+ - ie. work around backwards incompatible changes in ctypes
- fix Replacement Chooser table to allow for multiple line row heights in Before and After fields (regression)
- prevent too many warnings when no media types provided in OPF by generating the warning collectively
- prevent build warnings by using hunspell's std:string interface (not C char * ones)
- fix files in third party code that used latin-1 encoding to now use utf-8
- fix old use of 'python' in python code header lines to always use 'python3'
- removed user scope installs from winget util they work properly with dependencies
- restore Find&Replace if it was open when the user tries to exit Sigil and then aborts the exit
Sigil for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.4.2
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User Ratings
Jan 8 2025
Version: 2.3.1
Won't work on my 2022 MacBook Pro. 1/8/25. It downloads but won't open; it just stays "bouncing" in my dock, then I have to force quit because it won't do anything and won't close. I tried 8-10 times. Deleted.
Aug 21 2023
Version: 2.0.0
MU> "Sigil requires macOS 11 or newer" as mentioned here: https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/download/
May 24 2022
Version: 1.9.10
MU> 10.12 required as mentioned here: https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/tips/#mac-tips-and-troubleshooting
Nov 12 2021
Version: 1.8.0
Will sigil ever be compatible with the M1 processor?? I've tried multiple times this year (Nov 12, 2021 today) and it never works. Have a 2020 MacBook Air.
Mar 30 2021
Version: 1.5.1
Just a note: This hasn't been a WYSIWYG editor in a while. The dev removed that portion of the app and split it off into a separate app called PageEdit (also open source).
