A great Xcode alternative to visualise and edit PLIST files, having more features, using less disk space, less memory, and starting so much faster.
A real treat these days, PLIST Editor is built entirely using the native technologies provided by Apple for Mac. This is why you'll feel right at home from the moment you open the app.
We strive to have PLIST Editor integrated as seamless as possible in the Mac environment. To have preferences you can choose from, consistent shortcuts, a familiar toolbar, right click menus, undo & redo, dark mode support and many more.
The app is really focused on opening the PLIST files, no other bells & whistles attached. That's why you'll appreciate its speed and how stable it is, compared with Xcode, for example.
PLIST Editor's editing capabilities are equal to Xcode's ones, including, for example, the preservation of the order of dictionary elements when reading and saving the PLIST files. This is especially useful when you keep the files in a repository, because only the relevant changes will be shown when diff-ing the edited files.
Import the PLIST data contained in .mobileconfig or .mobileprovision files or other files which are encoded using Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
There are a multitude of keyboard shortcuts available in the app for getting your job done faster. Just to name a few, there are shortcuts to move items up & down, to duplicate them, to change their type, to embed in dictionary or array, to expand & collapse all children of a parent.
PLIST Editor provides a powerful, yet familiar, way for you to search your PLIST data. Just hit Command-F and start searching.
For power users there is even support for ICU regular expression engine, both for find and for replace.
Lastly, you can choose where to look for matches: in the “Key” column or in the “Value” column or both.
Easily sort the selected items or all the children of a parent item, ascending or descending, by “Key”, “Type” or “Value”.
Even more powerful, you can sort by “Subkey”, which means that you can sort the dictionaries contained in an array by the value of a specific key.
Lastly, clicking the column headers allows you to quickly sort the items.
Import PLIST data contained in .mobileconfig or .mobileprovision files, or other files, which are encoded using Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
Inspect the signer identities (email addresses and certificate names) and the additional certificates which might be included in the message.
There are so many options to make the app look and behave exactly the way you want.
Just to give an example, there’s support to change the default font, including its size, used to display the PLISTs (this is a great accessibility feature!). Even more, you can use Command +/- to change the font size for each document individually.
There are other cool features for you to discover.
Just to name a few: row height which accommodates multi-line text, copy items as Swift, Objective-C or JSON objects, edit multiple items at once.
