The best Subversion client for the Mac by far is now out of beta, and it continues to rock. And at only €39 per licence, the price is right too.

If you use Subversion as your source control and versioning, then on a Windows box you will no doubt be aware that TortoiseSVN is the best SVN client out there for your PC. I personally also use VisualSVN for its Visual Studio 2008 integration which makes life so easy when developing in the IDE, and the free VisualSVN Server taking care of the backend business.

But on a Mac the toolkit has been far from clear cut until recently. There have been numerous SVN client tools around for a while, but most of them sucked in some way or another – mostly as they were so unmac-like. Then all of a sudden Versions came around the corner and filled the empty SVN client gap nicely.

Actually about the same time Cornerstone came along as well, which looks great too, but just doesn’t flow as well as Versions for me, and it was a whole load slower. It is also a tad more expensive (but not by much to be fair). You might prefer it over Versions, but it’s not for me.

Couple the arrival of Versions with the release of Coda 1.6, which also has SVN support built in and developing on a Mac has never been better.

Versions. Get yourself a copy today http://www.versionsapp.com/