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BBEdit 16

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Why This Matters

BBEdit 16 introduces significant enhancements including expanded shortcuts, advanced image text search capabilities, customizable project colors, and improved AI worksheet performance, all aimed at boosting productivity and workflow integration for developers and power users. These updates reflect a focus on performance, automation, and user customization, making BBEdit a more versatile and efficient tool for coding and text editing.

Key Takeaways

BBEdit 16 is here!

Upgrade Information

BBEdit 16 is a free upgrade for all licensed BBEdit 15 customers who purchased licenses on or after November 1, 2025.

BBEdit 16 is a paid upgrade for licensed customers: US$29.99 for BBEdit 15 customers (if purchased before November 1, 2025); US$39.99 for customers with BBEdit 14.6.9 or earlier.

What’s new in BBEdit 16?

There are more than a hundred new feature additions, changes, and refinements, including forward-looking foundational work which brings order-of-magnitude performance improvements in some parts of the product.

As always, we enthusiastically encourage you to read the complete change notes for BBEdit 16. (We spent a lot of time writing those notes, and hope you find the experience rewarding.)

To help catch up, there are also notes from any older versions which may have been released since the last time you looked.

Here are just a few of the notable things that are new or improved in BBEdit 16:

Expanded Shortcuts support

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