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Script Debugger version 1.0 was released in [[1995]] by [[Mark Alldritt]]. It was a [[third party]] alternative to [[Apple Computer]]'s [[freeware]] application, [[Apple Script Editor]]. Its competitors at that time included [[ScriptWizard]] and [[Main Event Software]]'s popular [[Scripter (software)|Scripter]]. These two products today are defunct, leaving the only other competitors in the field being [[Satimage]]'s [[Smile (software)|Smile]] and [[integrated development environment]]s such as [[FaceSpace]] and [[AppleScript Studio]].

Script Debugger was considered innovative, in that it was both scriptable, (it could be used to create scripts to control itself), ''recordable'', (it could create scripts based on user actions), and ''attachable'', (scripts could be written to respond to [[Event-driven programming|events]]).

Script Debugger has since won many awards and review accolades in the Macintosh scripting community. Version 1 recieved "5 mice" from [[MacUser]] and 4 stars from [[MacWEEK]]. Version 2 received the [[2000]] [[MacWorld Eddy]] for "Best Development Software", and received "4.5 mice" from both [[MacUser]] and [[MacWorld]].