Published by Vlad Badea on 2025-03-14
What is PLIST Editor?
PLIST Editor is a user-friendly editor for property list (.plist) data. It allows you to create, modify, visualize, and save your .plist documents in a clean and uncluttered interface. It is a lightweight Xcode alternative that uses less disk space, less memory, and starts up much faster. It is also "source control" friendly, maintaining the order of dictionary elements for XML and OpenStep/ASCII plists.
1. For XML plists (the most commonly used) and OpenStep/ASCII plists, it maintains the order of dictionary elements and the editing capabilities are on parity with Xcode, so you don't see a difference between a file edited in PLIST Editor and one edited in Xcode.
2. PLIST Editor is probably the only "source control" friendly property list editor that you can find on the market (except Xcode, of course).
3. • "Source control" friendly - for XML and OpenStep/ASCII property lists the order of dictionary elements is preserved, showing them in the same order as they are defined in the file.
4. PLIST Editor is an easy to use editor for property list (.plist) data.
5. PLIST Editor can be used as a lightweight Xcode alternative, having more features, using less disk space, less memory and starting up much faster.
6. • Import plist data contained in .mobileconfig or .mobileprovision files or other files which are encoded using Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
7. Similarly, when the property list is written to disk, the order of items from a dictionary written to disk is the same as the one seen on screen.
8. • Find & Replace text in the property list elements.
9. • Open and save property list files in XML, Binary and OpenStep/ASCII format.
10. For the files encoded using CMS there is support to see information about the signers (email address and certificate) and the additional certificates which might be included in the message.
11. • Edit the elements of a property list.
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Or follow the guide below to use on PC:
Select Windows version:
Install PLIST Editor app on your Windows in 4 steps below:
Download a Compatible APK for PC
| Download | Developer | Rating | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get APK for PC → | Vlad Badea | 1 | 1.60 |
Download on Android: Download Android
- Open and save property list files in XML, Binary, and OpenStep/ASCII format.
- Import plist data contained in .mobileconfig or .mobileprovision files or other files which are encoded using Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).
- Multiple selection - works on sibling elements.
- Cut, copy, paste, duplicate, delete, and reorder the elements.
- "Source control" friendly - for XML and OpenStep/ASCII property lists, the order of dictionary elements is preserved.
- Find & Replace text in the property list elements.
- Sort items.
- Undo and redo.
- Edit the elements of a property list.
- Open and edit the files created using NSKeyedArchiver without any loss of information.
- Support for pasting plist data, either from raw XML or from Xcode.
- Copy elements as Swift objects, Objective-C objects, JSON data, XML, Binary (Base 64 encoded), and OpenStep/ASCII plists.
- Embed selected elements in array or dictionary.
- Shift elements to left or right.
- Quickly move elements up or down.
- Row height which accommodates multi-line text.
- "Add" and "Remove" buttons on the outline element which is tracked by mouse.
- Option in Preferences to choose the default font, along with the font size.
- Option in Preferences to "Alternate Row Colours" in the outline.
- Ability to increase and decrease font size for better readability, per each document individually.
- Versions support.
- Option, in Preferences, to disable the Auto Save (and Versions).
- Detect when the document is changed by another application.
- Double click one of column separators to resize the corresponding column so the largest text in that column will be visible.
- Toolbar to access common operations.
- Dark Mode support on macOS Mojave 10.14 and above.
- Developer is responsive to comments and feedback
- Efficient tool for working with PList and Source Code
- Saves time
- Limited default values when creating new plist files
- No option to select from a list of valid plist keys
- Unable to load standard XML or schema files
- No built-in help or support feature
Like it, but wish it had more defaults
So far so good!
The right tool
Errors loading XML
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