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 2.6.0
New Features
- Added in new CodeView Insert menu item: "Role..." (epub3 only) to make adding Aria role attributes and epub:type attributes where allowed easier
- Added in new CodeView Insert menu item: "Aria Clips..." (epub3 only) to make adding code clips that improving Accessibility easier.
- Made the Epub3 Tools menu submenu items be shown as disabled on Epub2
Bug Fixes
- prevent crash on Windows when hand typing in an external url in Add Existing files
- fix bug in how nav is handled by Prettify (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fix bug in wait cursor appearing when showing last epub open warnings
- fix crash caused by empty Automate lists (Thank you BeckyEbook)
- fix wild card disconnection Qt warnings
- fix class initialization reorder warnings
- remove now unnecessary workaround for sys.argv not being defined in embedded python
- fix bugs in regex search and replace by using PCRE2 NOTEMPTY to match Sigil logic
Full list of changes available here
Sigil for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.6.0
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Jun 8 2025
Version: 2.5.2
ADDENDUM to my discussion of integrating PageEdit, seen below: The instructions to 'Configure Sigil to run PageEdit' are WRONG and confusing in a few aspects. There are my personal corrections. {A} Step 2 should read: "Open Sigil, and go to SIGIL > Preferences > General Settings. At the very bottom, you should see a box that says “Set your preferred alternative external xhtml editor.” (If the option is not present, your Sigil version doesn’t support PageEdit.)" IOW, replace "Edit" with "Sigil". {B} In the next step "2", on Mac you're simply choosing the PageEdit app, not an ".exe". {C} The step "3" should read: "Now, ON THE THIRD ROW of Sigil, you’ll see a little button that looks like an X WITH A PENCIL ON TOP that will open up PageEdit." IOW: No, not the top row, the third. And its icon is now an "X". One line of the "X" is blue. The other is a yellow pencil. - - I'm going to get in touch with the dev to have this corrected.
Jun 8 2025
Version: 2.5.2
Sigil uses a sister app, PageEdit, for further functionality. This includes both book viewing and XHTML editing. I suggest installing BOTH. You can read about PageEdit here: [https://sigil-ebook.com/pageedit/]. You can learn how to 'Configure Sigil to run PageEdit' here: [https://sigil-ebook.com/pageedit/running-pageedit/]. Both apps remain free.
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
