Aptana Studio Reviews & Product Details

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 is 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aptana is a complete IDE, installer and the software itself requires too much space on your 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

this is a must app if you develop web applications. seemingly integrates with eclipse. totally worth it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

eclipse is a big pile of mess. your application hangs on a thread. this is not aptana problem but rather eclipse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Javascript debugging feature is not up to snuff, so I typically use a different program for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 - - - - Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free full-featured IDE with built-in CLI, syntax highlighting, code hint completion, project and file opening not too complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dependency on a particular version of JDK on Mac OS X, quirkiness/difficulty adding themes, memory hog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.