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We've compiled a list of 3 free and paid alternatives to Sigil. The primary competitors include BlueGriffon, GitBook. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Sigil and Papyrus. Also you can look at other similar options here: News and Books Solutions.


An HTML editor based on Mozilla rendering engine. Supports some CSS3 features and since recently has a built-in SVG editor.

Sigil Platforms

Linux Linux
Mac Mac
Windows Windows

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Sigil Overview

Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format.

Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor with the following features

* Online Sigil User's Guide, and Wiki documentation
* Free and open source software under GPLv3
* Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
* Full UTF-16 support
* Full EPUB 2 spec support
* Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Preview View
* WYSIWYG editing in Book View
* Complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax in Code View
* Table of Contents generator with multi-level heading support
* Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each
* User interface translated into many languages
* Spell checking with default and user configurable dictionaries
* Full Regular Expression (PCRE) support for Find & Replace
* Supports import of EPUB and HTML files, images, and style sheets,
* Documents can be validated for EPUB compliance with the integrated FlightCrew EPUB validator
* Embedded HTML Tidy: all imported files have their formatting corrected, and your editing can be optionally cleaned

Sigil Features

tick-square EPub content editing
tick-square WYSIWYG Support
tick-square Multiple languages
tick-square Portable

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