The latest and greatest release of Smultron – version 4 – can now be downloaded from Mac App Store for only $4.99

(Please note that Smultron 4 is only for OS X Lion 10.7 and there is earlier version, 3.8.4, available for OS X Snow Leopard 10.6. Get the earlier version here.)

Smultron is what your text needs. It is a text editor for the rest of us which is both easy to use and elegant but still very powerful. With it you can easily write and edit unformatted text.

• You can quickly write short or long pieces of text
• You can quickly edit a web page, to-do list, script, novel or any kind of text
• You have all your open documents easily accessible
• You can store your documents on iCloud and access them on all your Macs
• You can easily find what you are looking for in many different documents
• Smultron does not complicate things and you can directly start to write or edit text
• For the more advanced users Smultron is a fully featured text editor with syntax coloring, regular expressions, commands, snippets, line numbers and many, many more features

Changes in version 4
• Easier and more elegant
• A new more flexible and improved way of handling your open documents
• Resume – Smultron will reopen right were you last left off
• Auto save – you don’t need to think about saving any more, Smultron will take care of that for you
• Versions – you can easily look at previous versions of your text and also restore to any earlier version
• Easier to find what you are looking for in documents
• Improved full screen experience
• Faster
• Over 400 improvements and new features

For a more detailed list of the changes see this blog post. See also this post for a extra FAQ

Screenshot

Price
Smultron 4 only costs $4.99

Command line utility
If you want to use the command line utility which was included in earlier versions of Smultron you have to download and install the package from here