TeXnicle has satisfied my need to learn the minimum amount of TeX necessary to make a compilable, presentable, submittable Ph.D. thesis so that I can leave academia and never think about any of this again.

The writing of my thesis was the first (and only) time I will ever have to use TeX. More than any other editor, TeXnicle has minimized the amount of time I spend formatting or dealing with issues related to TeX's backend. It is push-button simple to generate great-looking documents.

As many other reviewers have said, TeXnicle's author is extremely responsive. The feature additions in b43 were added (and released!) mere minutes after I sent him a request for those features via email.

TeXnicle's author is also gainfully employed at the Max Planck Institute, which should guarantee an adequate supply of motivation for further development in the future.

I could nt find any reference in the help documentations. Does TeXnicle support direct and inverse search? synctex is specified, but shifting focus to the correspondig point from the tex window to the pdf one works fine; the reverse does not work at all.

I LOVE TeXnicle! I've been looking for a TeXnicCenter alternative for the Mac for ages but could never find one that had all the features and ease of use that I wanted... until I stumbled into TeXnicle. I love working in full screen with the editor and pdf preview both in the window, plus the tab with all sorts (document outline, associated files, symbols, code library, search, bookmarks, settings). What's also very useful is the way TeXnicle handles custom engines, you can add all sorts of functionality yourself. Lilipond typesetting of sheet music works like a charm now. And if there's any features missing you really want, you just mail Bobsoft! For instance, I like working with different "comment levels" (so one, two or three '%') and I wanted each comment level to have its own syntax highlighting colour... I asked Bobsoft and the feature was added within a few days (if not immediately, I can't remember). Support is also absolutely great. No reason at all to doubt this app!

Wanted to like this, but the last two versions have regularly crashed with simple operations,like closing documents, and I've finally uninstalled it. I find the app feature rich but the one-window layout is too confining and many items, such as code snippets, either take too much space or are too scrunched to read. Many times I struggle because the pdf view, a typeset example of a code snipped, or some other item is simply too small to read. Might be OK on a very large monitor.

Latexian is better for writing, editing, and live-typesetting. I like the Texnicle code and symbol library, so, I'll keep that open and just minimize the rest.

I should add that I don't actually use LaTeX editors for writing because I don't like to have my writing thought process interrupted with having to do coding at the same time.

If only someone would make a (proper) Cocoa program that does what LyX does in the semi-awful Qt windowing protocol.