MarsEdit 5.4.1
This update adds support for macOS’s standard “Versions” document history, improves the Share Extension to support sending text to MarsEdit, and includes a number of bug fixes across the rich text and plain text editors.
I’m holding off on this update for the moment because I’m seeing a regression viewing and sorting by the Edited Date, but I love the idea of versions support. It works as you’d expect, with a Time Machine–style interface showing two MarsEdit windows, so I get the same font and syntax coloring that I’m used to. It would be nice if it went a bit further and supported synchronized scrolling or coloring for the differences, but it does allow selecting and copying text so I can easily use an external diff tool if necessary. I had been using WordPress’s revisions feature, which is nice in that it colors the differences, but it’s a bit of a pain to pull up, the two-column interface gets in the way of selecting text from only one side, and it only works for posts that have been published to the server.
Previously:
Update (2026-03-30): Jack Wellborn:
I happen to be the one who reported that versions was broken in the first place and am delighted to see it better supported. I wish Apple did a better job surfacing and socializing automatic versioning because it feels magical and fits with a more modern paradigm that doesn’t require manual saving.
The date bug is fixed in MarsEdit 5.4.2.
Update (2026-04-08): Versions in MarsEdit are only available for drafts. Published posts do not store versions (even if you edit and republish) and do not have access to the versions of the draft from before publication.
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I dislike MacOS document versioning, but isn't this like 15 years too late? (or just in time?)
