This is hands down the best tool for developing in AppleScript. It has everything you need to write and test complex scripts, which can otherwise be a real pain with AppleScript. Everything about the app is very polished, and it's quite enjoyable to use.

Unfortunately, for a development app that can only be used for one language, I can't possibly justify paying $199. Like most people, I just want to write scripts to automate some repetitive tasks. I'm not setting up complicated workflows, and since the whole goal of scripting is to save time, I don't intend to write and debug scripts all the time. All I wanted is a better tool for the job, and this is clearly the best one, but the pricing is unreasonable for anyone who isn't writing scripts every day, so the tool remains inaccessible to what is probably the largest part of the AppleScript user base -- people who just want to automate their own processes.

The high price tag simply doesn't make sense. Although the text editor isn't the main purpose of it, it's a key part of any development environment, and (e.g.) TextMate runs circles around this aspect of the program, supports dozens of other languages -- and only costs €39. Okay, you might say "well, TextMate doesn't have a full breakpoint debugger". Fair enough. But XCode does, and -- although it's not an AppleScript debugger -- it is in fact a much more fully-featured debugger, and is *free*. My point being, similar tools of equal or greater capabilities cost a great deal less, and that's the problem here. For what this does, this is a $50 app at most. I might have paid $99, though I would have thought that was a lot higher than it should be. But I was absolutely stunned to see they're asking $199 for it.

In short, this is a great tool that I would love to use, but for what it does, and the value it offers me, simply isn't worth the overinflated price. For the very few people who spend enough time writing AppleScripts to justify the high price tag, I highly recommend this program. Everyone else, including myself, will have to look elsewhere.