Requirements
- macOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Silicon and Intel. One universal build runs on both.
- No account and no sign-in. Caxton does not upload files or collect telemetry; see the privacy policy.
Install from the disk image
- Download Caxton 2.2.0 and open the disk image.
- Drag Caxton to your Applications folder.
- Open it. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
Install with Homebrew
brew tap hwyenigmallc/caxton brew install --cask caxton
The cask installs the caxton command beside the app: caxton file.log, caxton data.csv --table and caxton . open files and folders from a Terminal. The disk image install adds it from Caxton ▸ Install Command Line Tool….
On Homebrew 7 or later, run brew trust hwyenigmallc/caxton first if the tap asks for it. The cask installs the same notarized disk image, and the app updates itself from then on.
Version and checksum
The current release is Caxton 2.2.0. What changed is in the changelog. Updates install through the app (Caxton ▸ Check for Updates…), signed and notarized.
SHA-256 of Caxton-2.2.0.dmg:
361f61a8cb50fde7f05b11712dd7d99a783d6c5e4aeba23ce133addaba499491
Check a download with shasum -a 256 Caxton-2.2.0.dmg. The same value is published as a text file.
The Caxton Pro trial, and after it
Your 7-day free trial of Caxton Pro starts the first time you open Caxton, no credit card or account required. Every feature is on for those seven days.
After the Caxton Pro trial, or when a subscription lapses, opening, searching, filtering, comparing, and copying stay free at any file size, and so does saving reports such as duplicate groups, problem rows, and frequency tables. Editing or saving a file you opened, sorting, transforms, removing duplicates, and extracting contents to a new document need Caxton Pro; the license page lists every feature by tier. Plans are on the pricing page: $9.99 a month, $99.99 a year, or $179.99 for a lifetime license, each good for 3 Macs.
A file to try it on
Want a sample file to try? orders-export.csv is a 20,000 row orders export to try the grid on. Open it, switch between text and table with the grid button in the toolbar or ⇧⌘C, and edit in either view. The data is synthetic.