Tumult Whisk is the lightweight HTML and PHP editor with a live preview pane that displays the updated page as you type. It is an is an essential app for your web dev toolkit.
Whisk started as a project I made in 2003 while in college called HyperEdit. Back then, it was perhaps the first editor with a live preview. I've been planning to give it a big update for a while and COVID-19 gave me the time to wrap up and ship.
To me, Whisk's benefit is that it is lightweight and easy to get in and out of. It doesn’t replace other source editors; you could make whole sites with it but what I like to do is test snippets of web-related code like playing with CSS or writing HTML-based blog posts.
I've tried the beta of this app and have found it to actually be extremely useful for trying out small code snippets. Since the preview really does instantly refresh with every keystroke, it makes it super fast and easy to get a CSS effect or some Javascript functionality just right. The feedback cycle is just so much faster with this tool. After I've gotten it right, I'll copy the working code into my other editor like Atom or Xcode, depending on whether I'm working on my website or my app. A super useful mac app!
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