--- 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: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Editor url: https://www.g2.com/categories/editor --- # BBEdit Reviews **Vendor:** Bare Bones **Category:** [Text Editor Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-editor) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 64 ## About BBEdit 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. ## BBEdit Reviews ### 1. Great text editor. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** BBEdit has all the features I need from a text editor. Prefix and suffix addition/removal is one of the key features I like. It is also provided by my employer. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** No dislikes. My text editing needs are fairly simple. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reconfiguring calculations and code without manually typing is a major time saver. That lets me focus on building new features and addressing bugs in our internal software. ### 2. Easy Intuitive, It Gets Out Of Your Way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew C. E. | Founder & SEO, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** I'm trying to think of what to write - it's an HTML software with no bells or whistles. It works great with our FTP Software Transmit. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** It's super simple software there isn't much to dislike really. **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** It's simple - just use it. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I switched to BBEdit from Dreamweaver because Dreamweaver added a bunch of its own code into your code, and that's not what you want - so this is purely an HTML tool and I like that. ### 3. It's not just a text editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard Y. | Front End Developer, Retail, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2015 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** BBEdit is incredibly helpful in that it will open almost any type text file I give it. It's find and replace is simply unmatched. If I need to write a really complex grep search to replace some code, BBEdit is my go to. It is a staple app that is a must have if you find yourself editing text or need a simple solution to manipulate a csv, email list and many more. The BBEdit support group is long standing and extremely helpful when seeking help. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** I wish that it had stronger web development skills. I find the current UI lacking in this area. But many of the features I would like to have should probably be used in an IDE or dedicated web development app. But again, BBEdit's strong point is manipulating text of any kind. **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** If you're looking for a text editor that has great support, a strong community, and amazing editing features, you cannot go wrong with BBEdit. Seriously, it's that good. If your needs are more for web development, there are other programs such as Atom.io that are better suited for that purpose. I use BBEdit alongside my IDE for programming. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** BBEdit is hands down my most used and longest running application. I've used it for more than 15 years. It's a solid app that is amazing at editing, finding, and replacing text. I've also used it as my go to app for writing as it's interface is less cumbersome and noisy as other apps. ### 4. Versatile Text Editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** Just how versatile it is. A day doesn't go by that I don't find that I can use BBEdit for yet something else. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** How challenging it can be to use some of the advanced features. If the interface were a bit more intuitive, I believe more people could benefit from it. **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** Do you find yourself needing an adaptable text editor? Look no further, BBEdit can get practically any job you can think of done. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not having to use multiple test editors to perform various tasks ### 5. Helped me while I worked as a Web Developer with my Mac **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose E. | Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** I love the Syntax coloring, the Git support (comes handy if you are Git/Github addict). The user interface(and hence the User Experience) just makes this Software really fun to use. You feel like you are using a program that just does what it was programmed to. No extra-useless options. Just what you need. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** I disliked how it is adveritsed as a text-editor and HTML editor. I believe it should only be advertised as a HTML editor for developers. I found myself multiple times in the forums reading threads made by users only having doubts with the normal text-editor features than the features focused for web developers. I found it a little bit annoying. **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** I think it's not. BBEdit should stop advertising itself as a text editor, because it is not what it's supposed to be. It is a text editor for web developers. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Back then when I didn't have a Windows laptop, I had a Mac OS X one. I was still looking for a Software that would make me more productive as a Web Developer. I found Adobe Dreamweaver very expensive, and then I found BBEdit. It was a pretty good program for Web Developers, and I believe that for normal users expecting to edit a .txt file as well. ### 6. Hav bene using it for 20 years, Amazing product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** Great UI. All language libraries are kept up-to-date. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** Color-coding could be better. More UI customization needed. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solid, light-weight, not a drain on memory. Never crashes. ### 7. Outstanding Text Editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark A. | Founder, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2015 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** You can drop almost anything into BBEdit and make the changes you need. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** Really no complaints – this is one of those applications that does exactly what it promises. **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** BBEdit is an outstanding text editor, a workhorse that you will use time and time again. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything from editing code (html, php, arduino) to manipulating scraped website data to extracting information from databases. ### 8. Powerful text editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dale J. | Technical Team Leader - Software Development, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** Minimalistic user interface and performance **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** It is missing a lot of the features I require in a modern IDE. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I just want to edit a basic file I open it in BBEdit and it just works ### 9. My favorite code editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bettina K. | UI Product Designer IV, Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2015 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** There are several things I like about BBEdit: It's versatility when it comes to supported code formats, I love the syntax highlighting, code hinting for fast entry, the line numbering, and the ability to fold up entire passages of code/text My all time favorite is the tray to have access to all open documents, it's simple, yet very effective **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** There is nothing I can think of, only thing is I am still on an older version, and I don't have currently a need to upgrade, so I get regular messages that remind me of an upgrade. There is only one case where I use another editor: For Less CSS I use Crunch instead. Another thing I would like to see in BBEdit is functionality similar to CodeBox, which allows me to safe snippets of code I will use later and access these snippets from my task/toolbar of my OS **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** The only editor on Mac that you need **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing HTML, CSS, php Writing user stories and Epics, and in general text (Normally you would do that in MS Word, but I like the fact that there are no formatting options coming in the way when I write, so I can stay focused on the content) Occasionally I use it like a sticky note, to store text or code that I will need a view minutes later (so it becomes my temporary memory) ### 10. Longterm favorite code editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** Bbedit is fast, stable, versatile and has a broad feature set for editing any form of code (or text) **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** Nothing comes to mind. Everything is cool. No problems. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web design, frontend and backend ### 11. Great Text Editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2016 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** Throw any file type at BBEdit and it will open it! BBEdit will get you through bulk find/replacing (Grep), CSV manipulation, JavaScript editing, CSS styling, etc. Not just on your machine, but via SFTP on remote boxes. This is the only text editing tool you need on your Mac. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** Nothing much to dislike with a text editing tool! It could seem a bit overwhelming to a new user, but the level of complexity really depends on what you throw into it. **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** Get started with the trial and get a feel for it! **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code editing for HTML5/CSS/JQuery. ### 12. A simple and easy to use editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David C. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2015 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** It is simple and easy to use. It allows easy automation with its script editor. **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** I would say the number of plugin on BBEdit is not enough compared with other editor like SublimeText. **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** Should have a package manager which centralize the supported plugins. **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** e.g. a diff editor, it allows to open diff and view it easily ### 13. long time user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rich C. | Technical Account Manager, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2015 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** extremely powerful text editor, worth the upgrade from the free version **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** can be complex for novice users, and sometimes it does more than I need **Recommendations to others considering BBEdit:** well worth the price **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** scripting and code generation ### 14. Use it to write code in xHTML & CSS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa N. | Designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2015 **What do you like best about BBEdit?** Write code easily without any other extra distracting whistles **What do you dislike about BBEdit?** no guides, could be more apple viewer oriented **What problems is BBEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** - ## BBEdit Discussions - [What language does BBEdit use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-language-does-bbedit-use) - [What is BBEdit app used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bbedit-app-used-for) - [What can you do with BBEdit?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-you-do-with-bbedit) - [What are BBEdit advanced features?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-bbedit-advanced-features) - [View BBEdit pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bbedit/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-16+17%3A33%3A23+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=557f4f93-616b-4374-843c-33fd214178b7&secure%5Btoken%5D=90437ce47af9ed98c2cd252a83e6fb92c2869a228bbd87b5f16875482c2a4522&format=llm_user) ## BBEdit Features **Coding** - Syntax highlighting - Autocompletion - Find and replace - Code folding **Editing** - Collaborative editing - Language Support - Selection Methods **Functionality** - Extensibility - Cross-platform support - Plugins and integrations - Security **Agentic AI - Landing Page Builders** - Cross-system Integration ## Top BBEdit Alternatives - [Visual Studio Code](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,644 reviews) - [Notepad++](https://www.g2.com/products/notepad/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (2,412 reviews) - [Sublime Text](https://www.g2.com/products/sublime-text/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,749 reviews)