Bare Bones Software is a private North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

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company developing software tools for the

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platform. The company develops the

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, marketed under the registered trademark "''It doesn't suck''", and has been mentioned as a "top-tier Mac developer" by

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journalist John Siracusa. The company was founded in May 1993, and incorporated under the

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in June 1994.

Product list

Professional HTML and Text Editor. *

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Information Organizer. Discontinued: * BBEdit Lite Free "lightweight" Text Editor (replaced by TextWrangler). * Mailsmith Email client (ownership transferred to Stickshift Software; became

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). * Super Get Info File and folder info utility for Mac OS X. (discontinued) * TextWrangler Free, lightweight Text Editor which replaced BBEdit Lite (replaced by BBEdit). * WeatherCal application that adds weather forecasts to iCal (discontinued on July 31, 2011).

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