Spelling Out Loud

Spell Catcher X 10.3.1 is available for download. This is a free maintenance update to Spell Catcher X 10.3, and recommended for all Spell Catcher X 10.3 users - especially Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) users.

Sorry we got off to a bit of a rough start with Spell Catcher X 10.3, Tiger folks!

See what’s new in Spell Catcher X 10.3.1.

Get it from our Downloads page, or avoid the “This application was downloaded from the internet” quarantine alert on Leopard, by downloading it via Spell Catcher > Get Updates and Languages.

Spell Catcher X version 10.3 is now available! There’s a lot of new stuff in there, we’re sure you’ll like it.

See what’s new!

Customers that purchased Spell Catcher X on or after September 1, 2007 qualify for a free upgrade to Spell Catcher X 10.3. Otherwise, those with an “X102” license can purchase the Spell Catcher X 10.3 upgrade for $14.95 USD.

For customers that only own an old “SCX” license code, the upgrade is $19.95.

Check your upgrade eligibility

If you have a license code that begins with “X102” - check here.

If you have a license code that begins with “SCX” that never been used to purchase the upgrade to Spell Catcher X 10.2 or later - check here.

And it’s probably a good idea to read our FAQs for Spell Catcher X 10.3.

Spell Catcher X / Spell Catcher X Lite version 10.2.3 is now available! While primarily a maintenance and bug-fix release, we always manage to squeeze in a few new features. Take a look at what’s new!

Recommended update for all Spell Catcher X and Spell Catcher X Lite users, on Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
This is a free update for Spell Catcher X 10.2, 10.2.1 and 10.2.2 owners. If you have an “X102″ license code, you’re all set.

A new release of Spell Catcher Plus (for Windows) is being prepared to coincide with the upcoming release of Vista next spring. Meanwhile, if you are using either a pre-release of Vista or IE7, apply this interim update to continue using Spell Catcher Plus.

We’re adding two new add-on languages to our line-up, the first one, Danish (spelling and thesaurus) is ready to go for Spell Catcher X. Danish was the most-requested language, and we’ll have it ready shortly for Spell Catcher Plus and Spell Catcher 8.

More information is available on the Spell Catcher X languages page (word counts and all that good stuff). Scroll to the bottom of the page…

Those of you that were waiting, you can buy it at our online store for a mere $10.

As for the second language we’re adding, well, we’re strongly considering Russian. This will involve updating the software, as there are new things to consider when dealing with Cyrillic encoding on the Mac OS. If all apps and all keyboard layouts and all input methods could be Unicode, well, it would just work right now. Sigh.

Is available from our pre-release downloads page. The following problems are addressed:

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Spell Catcher X version 10.2.2 is now available! Spell Catcher X goes Universal for native speed on Intel and PowerPC Macs! There’s more that’s new as well, read all about it!

If you have an Intel Macintosh, you need this!
This is a free update for Spell Catcher X 10.2 and 10.2.1 owners. If you have an “X102″ license code, you’re all set.

Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus reviews Spell Catcher X 10.2.1 at The Mac Observer.

Spell Catcher X version 10.2.1 is now available! There’s a fair bit that’s new, read all about it!

This is a free update for Spell Catcher X 10.2 owners. If you have an “X102″ license code, you’re all set.

Spell Catcher Plus version 3.0 for Windows is now available!

After 8 months of hard work, we’ve released a major upgrade to Spell Catcher Plus. Version 3.0 adds many important new features and enhancements.

Windows users, give it a try!