Tumult Whisk overview

Tumult Whisk is a lightweight HTML and PHP editor with a live preview that updates as you type.

Note: Whisk is the app previously known as HyperEdit!

Whisk is an essential app in your toolkit for HTML, PHP, CSS, and Javascript programming. It is great for learning web development, testing snippets of code, or building entire web pages.

Whisk’s integrated preview pane displays the web page live as you type. Whisk breaks the tedious cycle of writing HTML, saving the file, then reloading and viewing the page in the browser. Combining the writing phase with the viewing phase clarifies the effects of your changes and speeds up the overall process of making a web page. W3C-based validation will red-underline any mistakes. It uses the same rendering engine found in Safari, so it is not only standards compliant, but also very fast.

Use Whisk For:

Crafting HTML to make sure it looks exactly as you want it
Testing and executing PHP code
Writing blog posts, forum entries, or rich emails
Interactively trying out CSS
Running and debugging JavaScript
And creating whole websites

Main Features:

Preview pane quickly renders HTML and PHP as typed, using the same engine as Safari
Watched Files automatically (or manually) determine when files are changed and will reload the web preview (file access permissions required)
Live HTML W3C-based validation shows errors and highlights problem tags with a red underline
Preview to other browsers or the Hype Reflect app on iOS
Web inspector/console/dev tools access
Customizable syntax highlighting coloring
Reusable code snippets and color swatches
Scroll sync keeps can keep the editor and preview at similar spots
View HTML source code generated by the PHP engine
Attach Style Sheets for viewing how blog posts/markup will look with external styling

Because We Love the Mac:

Written in Cocoa exclusively as a macOS app (supports 10.12 through 10.15)
Adopts new macOS features and is gorgeous in Light and Dark modes

What’s new in version 2.6.0

Version 2.6.0:

Includes built-in PHP to render previews since it is removed in macOS 12 Monterey
New PHP binary path preference automatically detects common installation paths
Dialog windows for JavaScript alert(), confirm(), and prompt() calls
Fixed issue where switching the system to Dark Mode would not change the code editor color
Fixed an issue where opening a PHP document may not immediately show a preview without a refresh
Other small bug fixes

View older Tumult Whisk versions

4.5

(22 Reviews of Tumult Whisk)

Comments
User Ratings

Albertkinng

May 5 2020

2.0

5.0

Version: 2.0

Oh sh!#! This is THE UPDATE! From I hate it to I love it in 0.5 seconds. Yes... buying it right now. Great Work guys!

Eric6

Nov 8 2017

1.6

Version: 1.6

This software has not been updated in almost 10 years. Yet, it's still my go-to app for quick HTML edits. I have switched to Coda for most of my coding need, but the smaller window and simplicity of HyperEdit make me go back to it regularly.

Yoxi

Apr 27 2013

4.0

I've just started using this, in order to see what I'm doing while I speed-learn CSS. Very useful, easy to use - apart from not remembering the last-opened-doc layout, which means you have to resize and adjust the divider every time you open a doc. I'm getting round this now with an iKey shortcut.

Artmonster

Apr 16 2013

I really wish that Apple had not abandoned iWeb as I have yet to find a replacement that I like as much. On the hand coding side, if you know CSS and HTML this app is a dead on simple editor, with a great preview pane.

Thyx

Jan 28 2011

0.0

Well, welcome to AppStore! Promoted by a MacWorld 2004 rating... Apple definitely needs some 'version control'. So far, this here is much more reliable. (price is top on the App Store, btw, $14.99)