--- title: BBEdit Reviews meta\_title: 'BBEdit Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 64 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how BBEdit works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 64 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Editor url: https://www.g2.com/categories/editor --- # BBEdit Reviews & Product Details BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for Macintosh that provides features for editing, searching, and minipulation of text for web authors and software developers. * * * Seller [Bare Bones](https://www.g2.com/sellers/bare-bones) Discussions [BBEdit Community](https://www.g2.com/products/bbedit/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/bbedit/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Visual Studio Code](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Visual Studio Code") Visual Studio Code 4.7/5(2,732) ](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) [ ![Notepad++](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Notepad++") Notepad++ 4.6/5(2,475) ](https://www.g2.com/products/notepad/reviews) [ ![Sublime Text](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sublime Text") Sublime Text 4.5/5(1,783) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sublime-text/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/bbedit/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 64 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Mukund R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mukund R.") MR Mukund R. Software Engineer Intern Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/12/2026 "Smart Document Detection That Makes Editing Easy" 4/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? Its not just regular text editor, we can choose which type of document we are working on let's say if I am working on html it will automatically detect that and show the actual format not just html. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? The UI could be improved because it looks a bit dull. It has multiple features, but it feels complicated to find them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? BBEdit is like a code-cum text editor, and it identifies programming languages really well. I find it very helpful for comparing files and searching through text. The text-wrapping feature is also pretty awesome. Without saving any files, whenever we open bbedit it will open all the unsaved files as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Omkar M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Omkar M.") OM Omkar M. Teaching Assistant Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/15/2024 "BBedit is best notepad for Mac users" 5/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? The best thing about BBedit is it automatically detects the code of all the languages. When you copy the code on BBedit it automatically indents the code for all kind of languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? The default font size is very small and everytime the font size need to be increased whe you close and reopen the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I use BBedit everyday for text editing and code editing. As BBedit can handle files of large size, large code line editing is extremely easy. Also BBedit highlights the code syntax which makes code understanding very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Jesse S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jesse S.") JS Jesse S. Digital Marketing Specialist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/20/2023 "BBEdit is an Ultimate Text Tool" 5/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? BBEdit provides the tools necessary to process text for a myriad of purposes. BBEdit is a web site creation tool, integrates with the shell, is scriptable, programmable and extendable. The GREP capabilities are top shelf. When someone is moving text of one type (copied from web page, poorly constructed data set, different encoding, stripped or scraped text, BBEdit can open the file or accept the text and allows removing text gremlins, blank lines, sort lines, remove line endings and more. Using AppleScript, it is possible to create automated processes to tackle huge text manipulation tasks. Also AppleScript can make BBEdit into a power prompt engineering tool for AI Chat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? There is no Windows version, so if you do work in a Windows environment instead of Mac, there is no comparable tool. There is no iOS version so the ability to work with BBEdit tools while mobile can be a real drag. There are some workarounds but still. There is not good documentation on using BBEdit with Javascript for Automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? Often I copy text from web page and need to strip out illegal characters and other artifacts. BBEdit is a fantastic tool for that. I used AppleScript to turn BBEdit into a text entry platform for writing text, creating marketing text, writing AI prompts. It allows me to always use clean text in my word processor programs. It supports multiple programming languages and allows the generation of quality program files. BBEdit integrates fantastically with any other Macintosh program that requires clean and/or legal text. I am able to create workflows that allow for the scraping, receiving, stripping vast amounts of text and turn them into high quality documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/31/2024 "BBEdit: An Okish Alternate to Notepad++ for Mac" 3/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? BBEdit is an average alternative to Notepad++. The product gives a nice lightweight feel while using which is beneficial even to non-coders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? There are a lot of downsides to BBEdit including a lack of features in free mode, insufficient language support, steep learning curve for the product. The plugin community is also scarce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? The problem that BBEdit solves for me is being a complementary (Not primary) text editor/IDE for performing ad-hoc tasks quickly. For instance, using it as a notes app, fixing code indentation etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/2/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Gastón B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gastón B.") GB Gastón B. Advisor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/28/2023 "Simple and reliable text editor for programming or just text management" 5/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? The fast access to it, and the fast manipulation of text and functionality. The way it handles files is just pefect for the way I use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? I sometimes get a little confused about the way the right text limit is shown. But it's a so so so minor issue that it doesn't count. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I replace and format big amounts of text. I move excel files to BBEdit, replace and change things, and then paste everything in Excel or Sheets again. It's fast and perfect for managing large amounts of texts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JJ Jayant J. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/21/2023 "Edit your text and HTML with BB Edit" 4.5/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? BB Edit supports many file formats like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many more. it offers many features to their users to edit text like syntax highlighting, auto-completion, search and replace etc. To maintain its reliability among its users BB Edit updates with new features and fixes bug in regular intervals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? As BB Edit offers its services only to Mac Users it is a limitation for users who work on different platforms like windows, Android, etc. Other text editor software offers a large user base than BB Edit. New users may find it complicated or confusing because of its complex features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? While creating or editing text-based documents users can work more effectively and consistently with BB Edit.BB Edit can make their user work more efficiently by offering them designs to create a workspace according to their need. It allows its user to work on multiple files without compromising with performance speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![SHUBHAM V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SHUBHAM V.") SV SHUBHAM V. APM, Quality Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/15/2023 "Best text editor for Mac" 3.5/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? Text highlight and syntax based on coding language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? Launch time and tab switching. I find that it lags pretty much on mac 13 latest versions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? We need a text editor to edit our code files as well as the configuration files. BB edit solves this extremely well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite TH Teresa H. Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/26/2022 "Bad datal? No problem!" 5/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? I like the intuitive interface! There is a lot of functionality that I did not use, but what I used was excellent! The tool gave me the ability to edit huge files, the search and sort functionality was excellent, and the file do not crush on me any single time! Even smaller files crush Excel from time to time, but this is not a problem with BBEdit. Unfortunately, the corrupt pattern was not repeatable and I needed to do everything line by line. I loaded the output to the database from the first pass without problems. Wow! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? The logic is slightly different from Excel or Numbers, so there was a learning curve. When I understood the logic though, everything was very easy and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? The tool is great for sorting and searching large amounts of data and large texts as well. I also tried as a code editor, and it worked out perfectly. The major task that it helps to accomplish is searching for reg-exes. Well, it is beautiful and easy on the eye too when you work through millions of code lines! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/26/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jack C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jack C.") JC Jack C. Production manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/15/2022 "A powerful and useful tool for so many things" 5/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? Amazing for writing code of all kinds of just quickly manipulating plain text. It's very customizable and has lots of useful features like automatically closing brackets and implementing scripts and macros. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? I preferred a simple purchase price instead of a subscription. Honestly, that makes it difficult to continue using regularly. There doesn't seem to have been a leap in features to warrant a subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering BBEdit: If you use a Mac and need a powerful tool for manipulating raw text and coding, this is the perfect application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I use it to clean up huge amounts of text. The find and replace is very powerful and having scripts that automate cleaning and manipulating text is essential for my work. Zap gremlins and change case are also very valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic CB Carlo B. professor Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/1/2021 "Reliable and versatile tool" 4/5 What do you like best about BBEdit? This is my favorite tool for simple text documents, I try to avoid tools with a large footprint, this tool allows me to quickly and reliably open and edit text documents, with excellent search capabilities (grep). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about BBEdit? The tool is priced somewhat on the high side, even though it allows uncrippled unlimited use without paying. Asking for a bit less money and then offer more functionality to paying customers would make more sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I use it daily to edit text documents of all sorts, and to prepare quick notes. I will regularly have many documents open, these are all saved reliably, the tool has never crashed on me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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