Name: Sigil
Rating: 3.4091 (32 reviews)

Free

Absolutely Free

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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 1.9.30

Updated on Mar 17 2023

Bug Fixes

fix Checkpointing to work with dulwich version 0.20.46+
fix css value parsing when !important is used
EmbeddedPython fixes to work with Python 3.11 and later (thank you sharkcz)
leave cursor position unchanged if nothing found when search groups of files
make all Numeric items in Reports align right
add support for thousands separator to Reports
allow blank dc:language values to prevent crashing (as Sigil-1.9.10 did)
allow unknown language codes to pass through MetaEditor
MetaEditor under epub2, allow custom opf scheme values
prevent duplicate spaces when reformatting CSS in import, charset and namespace
better prevent random OPF attribute order changes to simplify Checkpoint diffs
fixed file menu Print Preview for xhtml and image tabs
prevent plugins from crashing Sigil by deleting last xhtml file in epub
fix issue where images/css could not be properly added in an epub3 with no css files

New Features

allow user to edit Checkpoint descriptions for clarity via Checkpoint menu
add ability to show the Checkpoint Change Log via Checkpoint menu
update to Hunspell 1.7.2 (released in December 2022) for spellchecking
update to latest zlib-1.2.13 for latest security fixes
move completely away from ever using OS system tmp folder for storing Sigil wip files. Instead create a new "workspace" folder inside Sigil Preferences folder
added ability to Print Preview and Print contents of Sigil's Preview window

Information

License

Free

Size

81.2 MB

Developer’s website

https://sigil-ebook.com

Downloads

102088

App requirements

Intel 64
OS X 10.12 or later

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Aargl

May 24 2022

1.9.10

5.0

Version: 1.9.10

MU> 10.12 required as mentioned here: https://sigil-ebook.com/sigil/tips/#mac-tips-and-troubleshooting

chrisexperimental

Nov 12 2021

1.8.0

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.

Graphic-Mac

Mar 30 2021

1.5.1

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 26 2019

0.9.14

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!

Bipou

Feb 20 2019

0.9.11

Version: 0.9.11

Developer's website does not exist anymore and Sigil is unable to download itself the update.

anonymous-skink-4586

Aug 30 2015

0.8.3

4.0

Version: 0.8.3

Sigil 0.8.7 is out https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases

PedantMac

Dec 30 2014

0.8.0

Version: 0.8.0

Velmi dobrá appka, jsem s ní spokojen

stefets

Oct 18 2014

8.01 is out at http://sigildev.blogspot.it A really nice and great application to create or edit epub. My only complaints with these last versions (8.0 and 8.01) is that you can not paste text in the Replace field using key shortcut anymore. It is not a tragedy, but it's not so comfortable activate the control-click menu every time you want paste the replace string in Search and Replace… So before to upgrade take also a backup copy of previous version if it works for you.

Igor-Freiberger

Oct 2 2014

4.5

Amazing to see a new Sigil release. Thanks!

Magosilvan

0.5

it doesn't work on Lion

Bad-Dog

May 29 2014

0.7.4

Version: 0.7.4

Great software, unfortunately no longer under active development. See: http://sigildev.blogspot.com I am still using it in Mavericks. I use Calibre also, which is constantly improving as an ebook editor.

Macfool

Feb 25 2014

10.8 and up.

Jazzyguy

Works Great!

FrédéricL8739

Jan 10 2014

0.6.2

3.5

Version: 0.6.2

The following link explains how to launch softwares like Jutoh or Sigil designed by no-Apple develepors. And it worked for both!

Sojourner0001

Jan 3 2014

Sigil 0.7.4 is available on the website since October.

PaolaMannaro6384

Mar 19 2013

CANT RUN IT ON MAC 10.6.8 and someone ?? can't be bothered to put the new version of SIGIL on the MACUPDATE page BOTH versions of SIGIL fail to load with MAC 10.6.8 ( Sigil 6.2 and 7.1 )

Trzebinik

Jan 15 2013

Easy to use, epub editor but only epub

Dedalus271

Dec 31 2012

I have to test it better, but using it with OS X 10.8.2, it works fine and I don't get any crash.

onlyuser

Dec 9 2012

1.0

Yes, it crashes at start up on my mini with OSX 10.7.5.

anonymous-dingo-653

Dec 8 2012

0.5.3

Version: 0.5.3

Actually, 0.6.2 is out, but hold off. More and more people are reporting that it crashes on start up in OSX. Someone really needs to catch up on this listing at MacUpdate.