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 2.3.1
- fix to prevent double epub load warnings
- fix to prevent load warnings without details from causing a crash
- fix to prevent rename templates from using characters forbidden in file names and paths
- fix to better restoreState when MainWindow is Maximized of FullScreen
- fix lost External Editor Preference when browse cancelled (BeckyEbook)
- fix for crashes related to serious epub load exceptions
- better handle epubs with missing NCX files
Sigil for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.3.1
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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).
Jun 27 2019
Version: 0.9.14
I have used this app only once when Amazon was refusing my book in Calibre's mobi format and it saved my life. :-)
I opened with Sigil the epub generated by Calibre and generated the TOC (Tools/Toc/Generate at that time) then I opened the edited epub in Kindle Previewer or kindlegen and converted to mobi.
So 5 stars for this invaluable tool!
