BBEdit 16 is here! | Bare Bones Software

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

With an entire collection of brand new actions, powered by App Intents, expanded Shortcuts support now makes BBEdit’s powerful text transformations even more available to workflows outside of the application.

Search for text in images

Yes. You can now use BBEdit to find text in images. Yes. Multi-file search for text in images. Yes. Multi-file search for text in images using grep. Mmmhmmm. You didn’t rename the file, but you know the meme image included the word humid? You know you dropped it somewhere. We’ve got you.

Color Customizations for Projects and Notebooks

Help keep things straight using color as a guide, with the new ability to select a color scheme per-project (and per-Notebook). Choose from a variety of factory-supplied color schemes, or devise your very own.

AI Chat Worksheets improvements

AI worksheet users will now enjoy reduced response times, and the ability to watch results stream in.

…and much, much more

In addition to the features highlighted above, BBEdit 16 includes the following notable additions and changes (and many more):

• Use of the W3C HTML5 syntax checker to improve syntax checking in HTML5 documents and help you keep up with evolving standards and guidelines;
• Support for vi keyboard emulation, for basic navigation and editing;
• Numerous quality-of-life improvements to the built-in Git support;
• Additional configuration options in web site projects, including settings for “production” versus “testing” deployment locations;
• Significant throughput improvements in the built-in SFTP file transfer engine;
• A wide array of reworked internals, fine tuning and optimizations resulting in palpable performance improvements across multiple features and capabilities.

The detailed change notes contain complete information on what is new and changed in this version.

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.