# Aptana Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Aptana **Category:** [PHP Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/php-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 40 ## About Aptana Studio Build web applications quickly and easily using the industry's leading web application IDE. Aptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine. ## Aptana Studio Reviews ### 1. Good Ide **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniele P. | Sviluppatore, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** I appreciate Aptana's completeness of the instruments, and scalability. It can also be expanded through plugins as per Eclipse tradition **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** It's very heavy software, not too responsive and not updated for a long time. A real shame **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Aptana I was able to program and develop projects in multiple languages without having to use different applications. All in one place. ### 2. Eclipse's Front End Powerhouse **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin K. | Lead Front End Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Quite fast. Sure, it's overpowered in some respects because it can allow you to switch, but the fact an IDE cares enough to let you do so is cool. I did enjoy it before I went the Sublime way because it was very resourceful. Plug and play fun with some of the irks taken away. Eclipse was the modern IDE of yesteryear because of the various ways you can add to the rep. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Sometimes, it would crash if it not the standalone. Guess it's something you had to deal with at one point or another. It's a Front Ender's dream, so you can add PHP and Coldfusion support. Eclipse is not lightweight at all when you Lego build your layout. These days, though? it's harder to justify a not-so-faster solution than the current guys out there. Code even is a better alternative and I'm no where near a Microsoft backer. Aptana is probably the sledgehammer than can kill a fly or the swatter. If some more of the fat was taken out of the Eclipse part, I'd probably praise it better, but in the look department, it still looks like it came out during the first recession. Modernize it. Get the animations cleaner or take them out completely. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** For a web developer only experience. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was an IDE that had localhost built in before relying on xamp installs and path memorization. You would need more to do what was required, but it was the hybrid service of choice. For components, sure it can do the job. ### 3. It makes development so easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nishedh J. | Senior Technology Manager / Lead .Net developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** As i have completed numbers of application, the best thing i like is "Easy to debug". **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** There is nothing much in dislike, but it would be better if search could work faster in enclosing project mode. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** This is the best editor ever. Helps to create/edit application. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not only problem solving i have completed numbers of mobile application, this is not just to solve problem. ### 4. University tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel C. | Salesforce Developer and consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** It was intuitive the learning curve to do the basic development was not bad. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** I really can't remember really disliking any part of the software **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Aptana in my University years and it helped me get through many classes bu now I am a Salesforce Developer and no longer need or use Aptana ### 5. Great IDE for Web Developers, especially if you love eclipse based IDE's **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai H. | Sr Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Based on the eclipse framework, good scripting support. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Light weight frameworks like Atom, Sublime fair much better in the competition **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it a few years ago as it was used at an enterprise level. ### 6. My first IDE, I have started my career with APTANA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhinav A. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Git Setup, Adding plugins, Developer friendly **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** nothing much to say here I totally like this alot. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** other plugins made ease to integrate **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick Development, Quick Grasping,Ease to Use as a naive user. ### 7. Excellent in terms of ease of use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Best Ediotr i terms of ease to use features and writing code and debugging becomes very easy with aptana. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Sometimes stuck when multiple apps working simuntanously may be due to lack of RAM in my system. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing web application in python,django,javascript,html becomes efficient with the help of aptana. ### 8. It's an awesome IDE. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** It's free and open-sourced. It supports lots of programming languages. It also supports plug-ins. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** The installation size is a little heavy. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Aptana Studio to work on my php project. I likes its debugging features. ### 9. Mr **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** user friendly, look, debug options, can create projects with different versions of python example 2x and 3x. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Some times it is hanging when running multi threaded and multi process programs **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Clean and Neat IDE for Python! **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** code reviewing, branching. ### 10. A lighter eclipse for all things not related to Java **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** The fact that it's light and migration from eclipse wasn't a task. Search was super easy. The makers kept it a point that they didn't flood it with features. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Developers require synchronization with FTP. If IDEs can provide that, it would be great. Versioning wasn't a great help either. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** PHP coding. When I'm not using PHP storm, that is. ### 11. Aptana Studio **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yaniro B. | Bitcoin Crypto Currency Trader, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Of the functionalities of the Professional version, the most interesting or interesting to justify your purchase is the remote management of projects, but Aptana Community itself has a tool for FTP connection to upload or download files, as well as the synchronization of our contents in local with those of the remote server. Also if we want to make a secure FTP connection with the FTPS and SFTP protocols, it will be necessary to buy the Pro version. The debug in Internet Explorer is also interesting, as not, but if we have the opportunity to do it in Firefox it may be enough to evaluate if we are interested in buying before making it. A very useful feature is that it provides the possibility of associating a project with an FTP connection to upload and download files directly to a production server. Additionally, it provides a Plugins administrator for PHP code support, Ruby on Rails, Subversion integration, CVS and Git, support for libraries such as Adobe Spry, Adobe AIR, Yahoo YUI **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Despite being a very complete development environment, being based on Eclipse, this makes it a rather cumbersome IDE and applicable only to computers with certain features in their hardware. It is paid. and you must buy the complete adobe suite, not sold separately. To install plug-ins we have the Plug-in Manager, located at the bottom. I would like a simpler process. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** It does not have functionalities nor supports. It's limited, but it does not mean it's bad **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aptana is based on the well-known Eclipse development environment (IDE = Integrated Development Environment), also Open Source. But while Eclipse is focused on development for Java, Aptana Studio is a distribution focused on web development, with support for HTML, CSS and Javascript, as well as optionally other technologies mentioned as PHP, Adobe Air or Ruby on Rails. Aptana Studio is available as a standalone application or as a plug-in for Eclipse. In a very general way, the choice of a development environment comes to have very personal nuances, since this is the tool that a web developer will use most of the time. ### 12. Aptana Studio Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ketan H. | Senior UI Designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** In Aptana Studio, the best things a liked are the way editor works. It is so easy for a developer to write a code. It also has such a well structured way of showing the folders and the pages. It also has a different color scheme to show .html files, .php, .js or .css. Managing multiple projects is very easy. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Things that I dislike in Aptana Studio is that, firstly the application takes a little more time than usual. The preference menu is a little difficult to navigate. It doesn’t have a preview option. It doesn’t have option to change the inline height. And the most important thing, it doesn’t even have option to keep back of the code. If Aptana Studio had an option to push changes on server, it would have been great. Installing Aptana Studio n your system is not easy sometimes. It keeps on crashing. It needs a 64-bit processor to install it. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** I would like to recommend Aptana Studio of the user who are new into coding as it has the best editor i have ever seen. It is an open source IDE. It doesn't have the best UI but i still find it the best. Managing multiple projects is very easy so it would be very easy for a new user. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously I used to use Aptana Studio for coding website as well as web application in HTML, CSS, JS & PHP. ### 13. Pretty nice coding solution for Windows **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** This was really easy to get started with. Nice features for the time it was developed. Pretty stable without crashing. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Doesn't really compare to what Visual Studio can do. Not a huge community behind it. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Nice free solution for building websites. Maybe not the best compared to other better supported editors like VS Code **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Coding websites and WordPress themes. Benefits are a nice editor for Windows that is free and reliable. ### 14. Great Open Source Editor for Web Developers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Aptana allows to quickly build web apps. I liked the code assist and Git integration feature which helped me to deploy my application seamlessly. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Aptana Studio 2 had some problems which are now overcome in Studio 3 so make sure you use the latest version of Aptana **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use it for Web application development. Helps to quickly build applications seamlessly. ### 15. Great IDE for building web applications. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** There's many things that I like about Aptana Studio - I like that I can run individual projects, I can use many programming languages that I can and there's no limit to it. Also, it has a file system setup that it easily to find. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** I think that thing that need prove at is the work-space and the preference area too. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Yes very highly recommended. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using it to build web application and it has been great. ### 16. Better IDE for Hybrid Mobile and Web App Development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samir S. | Senior Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** -Provides almost native look and feel for app -No any extra effort to add third party plugins -Good configurable options for IDE and project **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** -There is no any disliked features -Only thing is need to optimise to use in average system configuration **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** -Used for Hybrid Mobile Apps development ### 17. Using Astana Studio as an IDE for Web Programming and more **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** I like the integrated development environment of Astana Studio. So far I use it for JavaScript, Python, Java and more. But you can for example program and debug your entire web application in the IDE. There are a lot of extensions/plug-ins available to support different technologies and programming languages. It has a lot of capabilities and flexibility. It is based on the Eclipse platform. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Setting up your environment is a bit convoluted as is configuring your workbench. At least if you are not a daily user. But that is what you get from being such a powerful and flexible IDE. Aptana was acquired by Appcelerator and is now seemingly only maintained/developed by the open source community... Good or bad... **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Remember that it is no longer maintained by Aptana so if that not of any concern to you then sit go ahead. There seems to be an open source community continuing to work on it but I'm not sure. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** An integrated development platform to replace Dreamweaver as it has superior support for debugging. In a way also hoping to standardize the number of software tools used in development. ### 18. Great alternative to dreamweaver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** I like the code style, integrated debugger, show quick diff, code-assist, syntax highlighting **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** It crash at time on windows not very often **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** A better ide compared to tools like sublime **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project managment ### 19. Not bad, for Eclipse. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abraham S. | Owner, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Aptana is a proper alternative to those other all-in-one web development IDEs. I prefer open source software when I can help it, and Aptana made it easy. Since it is based on Eclipse, it is easy to upgrade Aptana Studio with other functionality that's already available to Eclipse. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** It is a little clunky, but that seems to be the nature of Eclipse. Eclipse being a Java based power IDE does provide extensibility and good portability, but it can also lend to instabilities. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Aptana is an all around great, open source IDE. It isn't quite as pleasing to the eye as Adobe's Brackets or similar, but it is mature and reliable. It is definitely worth a look. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Aptana to do web development related work, which is precisely what it is designed for. Occasionally, I'll want another feature that might not quite fit the scope of their project. Say, for instance, that I also want to develop parts of these sites in Go. Since it is based on Eclipse, I can easily add that functionality. ### 20. Handy Coding Workbench with IDE Interface Controls and Plugin Language Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Max B. | Chief Consultant, Systems Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Multi-platform support Windows, Mac, Linux- Plugin support to add programming languages- Visual style editor for my optimum workflow- **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** I consider these cons relative to expectations for actual tools offered. I find few cons, these comments are when used with Mac OSX Mavericks thru El Capitan Color syntax highlighting often ends after 120 characters on a line I wish I could select multiple lines and decrease tab indent the same way I can do that and increase it **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** If you're like me and range between front-end and back-end, write server modules as well as application interfaces, and you need to test and debug every aspect of your system top to bottom, you perhaps won't find this does everything. Yet nothing can. So within reasonable expectations I consider this the perfect addition to my hand-picked suite of tools that allows me to enter any zone on the net, in the datacenter, and coding projects for clients. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use more than 9 Programming Languages on a regular basis to serve my client network. With Aptana Studio 3 I can easily manage most aspects of code creation and organize my work. I have needed Lua support in addition to my other languages since 2014 and there is a plugin. After achieving a workflow with the software that matches my coding style (autocomplete off, autoindent off, code hints off- ) I have achieved optimum satisfaction such that I spend time thinking about code rather than my IDE. To me, for this type of app, I find its value in relation to how well it disappears into the background so that I can focus purely on my work- creating software technologies. ### 21. This is what we need for HTML-5 IDEs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** When editing HTML files in real time, Code Assist not only displays a list of matching tags, but it also includes graphical information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers..Also the interactive integrated debugger is an awesome feature **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** At times, it is very slow and fails to respond to commands that I type in. Maybe it needs an update from the supplier or the manufacturer. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Please use this. It is a good software with a lot of potential **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aptana Studio supports PHP, Ruby, Rails, .Net, Titanium, PyDev(Python, Jython, Iron Python), static/dynamic Web sites, and more which is very useful for the business problems to solve at work, It is fast and reliable compared to other softwares ### 22. Aptana usage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Corey B. | Creative Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Easy to use interface, file structuring & snippets, Once a project is setup it makes it really easy to use to update live/dev sites already on a remote server. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Takes a bit to load up initially (could be my machine, getting a new one this week). Starting a project from scratch is a bit cumbersome, I often hand code a page and install into CMS, once it has been installed I use it for updates on live site updates **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** It is really easy to work in real time on a remote server. Interface is easy to understand. It isn't the most hip looking interface but it gets the job done. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its quick and easy to use once you are up and running on a project. I mainly utilize it to create new websites for clients looking for a fresh responsive site. Wether it is ecommerce, a basic website or a web based app, we have utilized aptanastudio3 to accomplish it. ### 23. The best, most complete, file editor (IDE) I could find for OS X! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Aptana Studio is all I could hope for in a file editor (IDE). Working in the Web development industry, what we strive to find everyday is a software that can offer everything in one single software: built-in FTP with many supported protocols, syntax highlighting, code assist, integrated debugger, git integration and many more... I've used many other similar software, but none of which is offering the same features (or comparable) like Aptana Studio does. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** The software seems to be hogging a lot of memory (on my MacBook Pro) while loading. Note that it is faster on my iMac with an SSD drive, but this is minimal compared to what it offers! Once the application is loaded, the software is working fine. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Aptana is not easy on HDD space and memory usage, but once it's loaded it works like a charm. If you have an older computer, you might want to upgrade (trust me, it's worth it) or consider another software. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** The major problem I am solving by using Aptana Studio is efficiency. Everything I need to use on a daily basis, concentrated in one single software, has saved me a lot of time. Going back and forth between many windows was also a source of mis-manipulation which sometimes caused major problems (like overwriting live websites). ### 24. Python with Aptana Studio **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2017 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** It can be used with a variety of programming languages. I use it for Python. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Its a useful tool, so its nothing that I don't like. Although it has lot of other competitors too. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was working on Packet Traffic Analyzer and load balancer academic project. ### 25. A reliable and versatile Eclipse based IDE, though out-dated now **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris A. | PHP Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** I love how configurable Aptana Studio 3 is regarding UI style, how it lets you manage several projects and remote servers in tandem. The per-project Git integration is a bonus. The deployment wizard is really handy for hooking a project up to a remote server in no time. The built in console is excellent, and I use it primarily for Git, and navigating projects that contain multiple Git repositories. The Open Resource tool (Ctrl + T) and Open PHP Element tool (Ctrl + Shift + T) are great for navigating files/classes across all projects. The outline view is great for quickly navigating classes by their method names and allows quick identification of method visibility and scope. Code hinting and navigation for simple to intermediate purposes works really well. Tool tips are shown for built in PHP functions, too, outlining their documentation. It gives me everything I need to start working in a local development environment (aside from, of course, an HTTP server running PHP and a database server). **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** The preference menus inherited from Eclipse can be quite cumbersome to navigate. It frequently forgets my preferences, such as PHP version for a project, or syntax highlighting theme for the entire IDE. I've gotten used to this but I shouldn't have to. It often tries to re-index entire projects if they're introduced or change a lot, for searching and code-hinting purposes. This is slow and bloated in the sense that this interferes with UI responsiveness. Code hinting and navigation through classes/methods in complex inheritance chains isn't up to scratch. It hasn't been updated in years and offers no support for PHP versions beyond 5.4. No line height configuration! **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** This IDE helps me work efficiently as a PHP Developer, and I'm very comfortable and familiar with its features (and its quirks). I use it primarily to develop PHP web software or PHP libraries. ### 26. A solid tool for a full-stack web developer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew S. | UI Designer, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** As a front-end designer, Aptana attracts me as an ultimate development IDE with many built-in features. I find useful remote connection manager, terminal emulator, PHP and Java runtime, Git support. There are plenty of add-ons in the repository, and highly customizable workspace is a plus too. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Disappointing is resource consumption and performance. Application starts slowly and it is a pain to work with it on low-end Linux boxes (sometimes I have to). There is also some stability issues when auto-updating from repository. Once after update to latest version, Aptana for Mac OS X started to crash on launch, and I had to roll back manually. A number of essential add-ons are missing in the repo. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** A perfect IDE for those, who's not chasing the latest trends in development. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I run a small web studio of 2 persons. We tried various new and modern desktop code editors, developed in NodeJS, like Brackets and similar. But experienced serious stability problems with them. Returned back to Aptana because it just works. ### 27. Used to be my sole code editor but not any more... **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zhou Z. | Software Engineer / Senior Innovation Fellow, Education Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** I used primarily Aptana as my editor when I was a junior developer. I like the fact that it is very well maintained (as a free product) with all those extensions, easy-to-understand UI, syntax highlighting/formatting if the correct extensions are installed, and especially the built-in terminal (Mac version) which allows me to stay in Aptana in full screen mode for virtually anything. But by and by I found myself using it less and less because now what matters more to me is flexibility. However, I'm still using Aptana today for one thing and only one thing: on-server code editing. Because Aptana can connect via SSH and allows me to debug my code on a remote server. I'm still not finding another software that does this better than Aptana. But for daily development I'm using Sublime and Jetbrain products now. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** What eventually turned me away from Aptana is it's heavy, inflexible, and some minor annoyances. I can't customize my coding environment to whatever I want like I do in Sublime. And I'm having the long-lasting problem in Mac (Yosemite then El Captain) that Aptana never quits itself properly. The software icon lingers in my dock and I have to force quit. This is a minor problem and probably has a fix. But it is the last straw that made me give up Aptana in my daily work. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Need a code editor that can edit files on the remote server like editing local files. Changes to the remote file can be immediately pushed to the server so I can debug a live site in real time. ### 28. Aptana Studio is good for my needs in Python and PHP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dai Fu Jordon C. | Systems Administrator, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** For the price (free), Aptana Studio is a good current IDE. I have tried Eclipse and found that I liked Aptana better. Compiling and running code is simple and relatively quick. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** The project explorer pane can be finicky at times, displaying folders can be a pain. The default themes aren't very good, the dark theme especially isn't good enough for my needs **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Before spending the money on Jetbrains, or using the old but functional Eclipse, give Aptana a try, it might suit your needs. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aptana is what I am using for my Python and PHP coding needs. The hardcore coders may use notepad or notepad++ but I need my IDE, and the code completion makes my quality of life much better. ### 29. I used Aptana on its early stages. Tried it a couple months ago, still the same feel. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robinson A. | Jr Javascript Coder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Aptana Studio can be very helpful when managing/developing a big project. It has many features that will help you through your development and deployment phase of the project. It has VCS from scratch so it will be easy to setup with your Git repositories. It's also has many customization options, you will be able to tweak it at your will. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** It is still the same code editor from 2008. They haven't improved a thing besides VCS implementations. The GUI can be sort of overwhelming at the point where you might even close it and look out for another option. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** If you're looking for some IDE for free to develop a huge project, Aptana might fulfill your needs. It's always good to get to know many development tools. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** When i was a Junior Frontend developer i used Aptana a lot when managing huge projects. It did help because no other editor was able to do such thing, at least for free. Also, being an open source tool, it made me happy that i could help them out spreading out the word and letting people know their software. ### 30. A pretty decent IDE for web development. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** René M. | Special Cases Network Administrator, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** The thing I like the most is its versatility to include context help and support for various languages. All the help dialogs appear quickly without taking any additional time to load like many other IDEs. I also like that it doesn't requires much system resources so I can be fully capable of having other tools open to do multiple tasks related to the project like the image editor, video editor, or an FTP client without compromising the stability and speed of my system. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** The installation process is totally tedious and unacceptable! The problem is that as they have the god/promising/greedy intention to cover several languages and technologies the installation phase encounters this situations: - Besides of the 64-bit support. It requires that you have previously installed JRE 32-bit or the program just won't start. - The installer requires node.js and if it's not installed it will try to downloaded itself but it will always fail. I got to solve these issues by googling the errors because the installer's messages aren't clear enough. My biggest recommendation is to offer different types of installers sorted into bundles that suit the needs and scenarios of all users (just like oracle does on java installers) because you can be sure that most users will just let go and go for another IDE. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Install node.js and JRE 32-bits before installing Aptana. Look for IDEs comparisons to identify the right tool for you. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm currently reviewing some projects and polishing another one of my own, I really like its speed and capability to manage multiple projects with ease. ### 31. My favorite free IDE that is also open source **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy H. | Lead Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** What I like most about Aptana is that it can handle everything I need an IDE to handle and it doesn't cost a thing... I don't think there's even any upsell. I really enjoy the ability to drag in files for ftp uploading vs the inconvenience of navigating to the files on my desktop. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** I use both Windows & Mac and Aptana runs far better on Windows, but a bit more sluggish on Mac (especially when opening folders in FTP). I can verify this isn't an internet connection speed issue too. I've had occasional crashes and the UI is not very intuitive. It's not uncommon for me to have to do Google searches to figure things out, but since so many others have the same problem the answers are usually easy to find. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** If you have a high quality IDE that you already use, and likely pay for, then Aptana is probably not something you're going to want to switch to. However, if you don't have the budget for an IDE or simply don't want to spend money on one, well Aptana may work out great for you... especially if your biggest needs is moving local files onto a server via FTP. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aptana helps me code and upload my changes via ftp very quickly and efficiently in an environment that is pleasing on the eyes and enjoyable a majority of the time. ### 32. Professional IDE for Serious Developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M. Serhat D. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Aptana is a complete professional IDE which supports vast majority of popular programming languages. Especially I really like web programming support. It covers HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PHP and Python. Git integration is a critical feature for developers and Aptana totally provides it. Built-in terminal ise a big plus when compared to other text-editor like IDEs. Aptana is easy to customize, you can simply set your preferences and design the interface according to your needs. Deployment wizard is my favorite feature of Aptana. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Aptana is a complete IDE, installer and the software itself requires too much space on you disk. Also it consumes more RAM space when compared to other similar IDEs. Aptana may not be the best option for old computers, because system requirements are high. Finally, Aptana 3 installer crashing on Windows 10/64bit sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** If you are looking for a complete IDE which organizes your workspace with amazing features, Aptana is for you. After switching to Aptana, you won't be disctracted with seperate terminal windows, Aptane keeps all of them togetger for you. Especially for Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers, Aptana is one of the best options. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using Aptana 3 as a Ruby on Rails developer without any issues. Aptana saves my time and organizes my development environment in a single windows. Aptana really helps me during the development with it's amazing features like git integration, deployment wizard, capristano support, integrated debugger and built-in terminal. ### 33. must app for your jave EE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fawzi B. | Software Engineer, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** this is a must app if you develop web applications. seemingly integrates with eclipse. totally worth it **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** eclipse is a big pile of mess. your application hangs on a thread. this is not aptana problem but rather eclipse. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** building java web applications ### 34. Your open source swiss blade... and probably that's an understatement! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel Alejandro C. | Freelancer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** I like the flexibility and choices: It comes in both a Stand-alone Version and as an Eclipse Plug-in... I have them both... I have the Stand-alone in my desktop and the Eclipse Plug-in in my aging laptop. On top of that, both editions are available for the Mac OS X, Windows (x86 - x64), and Linux. I like that it has Git baked inside of it, and it uses it to update our scripting environment. I also like that It allows me to do my Ruby on Rails development, even through a separate IDE (Aptana RADRails) I like its compatibility with any major version control products, including Git, Subversion, Mercurial, CVS, and Perforce. But what I really love, and the reason I use it, is the intellisense integration that allows me to simplify my HTML5 work. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** It's never gonna be your go-to IDE because even though is a complete tool in its own right, it lacks some depth in the PHP and JS departments. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Aptana combines the slickness of an off-the-shelf tool with the benefits of open source, that's pretty much the best of both worlds when it come to an IDE. Also, you should give it a try if you are tired of your same old IDE. But you'll feel at home if you come from Eclipse. Don't expect too much of it if you decide to use it on your JS and PHP projects. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's on my top 5 IDE and is my go-to solution for working on my HTML5 related projects. ### 35. Excellent HTML editor/designer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jake E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** The intellisense feature is, in my opinion, the best by far. If I can't remember something all I need to do is start with a < and check the options. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** The Javascript debugging feature is not up to snuff, so I typically use a different program for that. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently still in school for web development/software programming so I have not yet employed this in the business world beyond some freelance web design. ### 36. A Very Nice, Free IDE for Web Development **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric A. | MBA Computing Consultant, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** If you have any experience using Eclipse at all, or are a poor college student, give Aptana a whirl for your web development purposes. You won't be disappointed. It has really slick intellisense built in for all the major web languages nowadays, especially front-end languages - looking at you JS. I have also heard really good things about Aptana and RoR, but I can't speak on that point for myself. It's very easy to set up version control and deploy using a variety of products. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Takes a little while to start up sometimes, but I can only say that as a Windows user. Uses quite a bit of memory. It does have an older look compared to a lot of the newer text editors out there. Other than those, nothing I really dislike about it. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Be open to the possibility of using a favorite text editor in combination with Aptana. This way you get the best of both worlds. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it successfully in conjunction with WordPress development - typical HTML, CSS, PHP fun house. One thing that some people - including myself - have done, is coding in a different text editor, and then organizing everything via Aptana. This approach works well if you have a favorite, lightning fast editor, but still want the power of an IDE on your side. It's a neat combination. ### 37. I'm very pleased with Aptana Studio as my IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John M. | IT Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** I program in a variety of different languages.. HTML, JavaScript, Python, PHP, etc. I like the fact that Aptana Studio cleanly handles all of these languages and more. The program does a great job of organizing/structuring the code as I write it, as well as making the appropriate function suggestions. I can't believe that a software package of this quality is open source! **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** When I first started using Aptana, I had a little more difficulty setting up the framework for a project than I would have with other programs like Dreamweaver. Other IDEs often have a wider variety of software/coding suggestions than Aptana does, as well. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Because it's an open source IDE, there isn't much risk to giving it a try. It's easy to setup and get started, and if for some reason it doesn't meet your needs you won't be out anything. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Aptana to manage the code for several different software projects I'm working on. This software makes it easy to visualize the structure of my projects, and I enjoy being able to share resources between the projects I am currently working on. ### 38. Super IDE for front-end web application and mobile responsive development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naser A. | UI|UX Mobile and Web Applications Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2015 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Aptana works without any issues in Apple OS X and Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating system. It provides out of the box an internal server that I can test and run my development projects with Safari, Chrome, Firefox and internet explorer. Aptana gives me all the templates for HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript configuration for my projects. I do not need to convert any of my projects from Apple OS X to Windows 8.1 , I just copy the project folder from one operating system to a new operating system environment just in few seconds. I have been able to run all major plugins with Aptana and that is like CoffeeScript, jQuery, LESS, SASS and even Angularjs plugins. I can also configure various W3C validators, markups and enable error checking on JavaScript templates. Of course, there are lot more functionalities that Aptana provides for day to day development such as even Ruby. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Well, I am happy with what Aptana is providing for my project development and I do not have a show stopper issues with it at this time. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** ability to add my host web server is nice to have. Thanks **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Front-end web applications development for my clients. It is helping me to quickly develop a prototype idea for my customers. Also, showing how a web applications look in various browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari and various version of Internet Explorer. ### 39. Aptana is the IDE to use for beginners to advanced developers - **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James P. | Developer & Linux Server Administrator, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2015 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** The feature that kept me on Aptana the longest (I now use vim, which I would not recommend to anyone - and damn this survey for making me lie despite my extensive experience with Aptana - ) was the formatter. With a simple, CTRL+Shift+F - your code is perfectly indented, formatted - and mostly PSR compliant (it is good for Ruby, also -) The customization surrounding the syntax highlighting was also wonderful - and Auto-Upload is great, as well. I have converted many DreamWeaver users to this - and they tell me that while they can easily afford DW - they prefer Aptana for various reasons (which I couldn't recount) A feature I still have not been able to replicate flawlessly in my new IDE of choice is the documentation tooltips - If you double-click on any given function, you immediately get the documentation for it - In fact, simply defining a function, and putting the proper /** docblock with @specs */ before it would also give you access to whatever you wrote in your @docblock - Git integration - the git-bash that comes with it - are also wonderful, highly useful features - The Outline feature also proved plenty handy, but the right folding mechanism and proper search-hotkeys make this a feature that I don't miss. All in all - Aptana is Eclipse - So, if you learn to use Aptana - you're learning to use Eclipse - and this can prepare you for jumping to another Eclipse-based IDE in the future - So! When you move to a new language, you have familiar tools that follow ! This greatly aids with the learning curve of a new language - - - - **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** The fact that it is powered by Java is the worst. I never had any problems with Aptana - I only ever had problems with Java - (which, of course, can be fixed by tweaking the right .ini file - but who has time for that !?) Otherwise, some of the other features are a bit less intuitive - such as connecting the thing to xdebug - and sometimes, it can be a pain to add the remote host - (Imagine you have multiple projects on the same server, but you have to reconfigure the remote host in the same way for each project - even though it should be a simple drop-down menu with an input for path) **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** Just do it. If you need to ween yourself off of something else, make a plan where you use Aptana X hours a day - and increase X slowly over time - Simple. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aptana is free - Aptana is better than DW - We saved money - we saved time in debugging - And our code looked clean and pristine (and mostly consistent amongst teammates) because of the formatter - ### 40. Aptana Studio Free Solid IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Conley S. | Sr Developer, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2015 **What do you like best about Aptana Studio?** Free full-featured IDE with built-in CLI, syntax highlighting, code hint completion, project and file opening not too complicated. **What do you dislike about Aptana Studio?** Dependency on a particular version of JDK on Mac OS X, quirkiness/difficulty adding themes, memory hog. **Recommendations to others considering Aptana Studio:** On Mac, careful which JDK version you're running. **What problems is Aptana Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Front-end web development. 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