--- title: Brackets Reviews meta\_title: 'Brackets Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 262 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Brackets works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 262 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Editor url: https://www.g2.com/categories/editor --- # Brackets Reviews & Product Details Brackets is a modern, open-source code editor specifically designed for web development, focusing on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Developed by Adobe and released in 2014, Brackets is built using web technologies, making it lightweight and highly extensible. It is cross-platform, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. Brackets offers a range of features tailored to enhance the web development workflow. Key Features and Functionality: - Inline Editors: Brackets allows developers to open a window into the code they care about most, enabling quick edits without switching between file tabs. - Live Preview: This feature provides a real-time connection to the browser, allowing developers to see changes to CSS and HTML instantly on screen. - Preprocessor Support: Brackets offers support for preprocessors, facilitating a more efficient workflow for developers who use them. - Extensibility: Being open-source, Brackets supports a wide range of extensions that add functionality such as Git integration, Emmet for high-speed HTML and CSS workflow, and more. Primary Value and User Solutions: Brackets addresses the needs of web developers by providing a streamlined, efficient coding environment that integrates visual tools directly into the editor. Features like Live Preview and Inline Editors reduce the need to switch between different applications, thereby enhancing productivity. Its open-source nature and extensibility allow developers to customize the editor to fit their specific workflow, making it a versatile tool for modern web development. * * * Seller [Adobe](https://www.g2.com/sellers/adobe) Discussions [Brackets Community](https://www.g2.com/products/brackets/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/brackets/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Visual Studio Code](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Visual Studio Code") Visual Studio Code 4.7/5(2,732) ](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) [ ![Notepad++](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Notepad++") Notepad++ 4.6/5(2,475) ](https://www.g2.com/products/notepad/reviews) [ ![Sublime Text](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sublime Text") Sublime Text 4.5/5(1,783) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sublime-text/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/brackets/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 262 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Brackets Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Apple Safari ](https://www.g2.com/products/apple-safari/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Chrome OS ](https://www.g2.com/products/chrome-os/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Mozilla Firefox ](https://www.g2.com/products/mozilla-firefox/reviews) Show More ![Manu V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Manu V.") MV Manu V. Senoir Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/4/2022 "Best Text Editor for developers" 5/5 What do you like best about Brackets? Brackets is a simple text editor developed by Adobe. It supports almost every programming language and provides suggestions, corrections, and syntax highlighting depending on the programming language we type. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? Brackets is a good text editor and built with all the necessary tools needed for a text editor. Til my use, no issue is worth noticing and impressed with its rich features. The support provided by Adobe is excellent. They are improving the product with every update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brackets: Brackets is a good text editor built with a lot of features. As a developer, I'm delighted with this text editor and recommend others try this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Brackets for writing CSS and HTML codes for developing front-end design. It is straightforward to use, and it comes up with a lot of plug-ins for CSS and HTML, which makes it easy to write CSS and HTML codes. I'm getting proper code suggestions, shortcuts, error highlights, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AS Andi S. Website Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/16/2021 "The Simple, Light-Weight, and Free Code Editor for Anybody" 5/5 What do you like best about Brackets? When it comes to software, Brackets is about as lean as it gets. There's not much to it and it takes virtually zero effort to hop in and get started on a project. That said, its open-source nature makes it even more powerful thanks to an active community of supporters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? Unfortunately, Adobe has ended its support for Brackets as of this year. This leaves the application and its future somewhat up-in-the-air and that worries me because it really is powerful on its own but the concern that it may suddenly lose support entirely if the community moves on to other projects is very worrisome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? I like to use Brackets to create my HTML/CSS necessary projects outside of our web provider's internal platform since Brackets does not inject extra code while you're working. Once I've finished inside of Brackets, I can move the code to our web platform and let our providers add whatever code they need in order to make it function on our websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Seth Matthew M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Seth Matthew M.") SM Seth Matthew M. Grad Student Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/14/2021 "Great for newer coders" 5/5 What do you like best about Brackets? What I really like is that brackets feels like a modern text editor. Granted, text editors are supposed to be fairly simple and paired down, but this text editor actually feels like a pleasant, modern piece of software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? To be honest, there's really not a lot that I dislike about it. It seems to fulfill my needs really well. The one thing that I wish it did was that it made the debuggin in tools more easily understandable and that it could execute files rather than just write them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? I have been using Brackets in connection with PyCharm in order to write some scripts that will allow me to scrape web data from a few new sites for analysis. I have also been using it for some linguistics research to analyze the data in JSON files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sujith S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sujith S.") SS Sujith S. Senior Software Development Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/23/2022 "The Text Editor We Need" 5/5 What do you like best about Brackets? Brackets provide a lot of suggestions while writing codes, and it supports all types of programming languages. While we type the code, it shows suggestions and corrections that make it easy for developers to write efficient codes. It doesn't need any previous experience to use its tools and features. Even a beginner can quickly get it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? Till now, I'm very much satisfied with brackets support, and they are providing timely updates for improving user experience. In the past few years, they improved a lot, and as a user, I'm satisfied with their support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brackets: I would recommend developers to try Brackets if they want to experience a smooth coding interface, and it's completely free and provides timely updates with features. It is the best tool for writing HTML codes now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Brackets for developing web applications. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JAVA are the main programming languages I write using Brackets. It supports all these languages and provides additional tools to run and check the corrections in the codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite OS Olaf S. Marketing Director Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/8/2022 "Easy, intuitive code editor" 4/5 What do you like best about Brackets? One of the most appealing features of Brackets is its clean, minimalistic interface. The result is more coding "real estate" within the program interface and less distraction from UI elements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? So far, I can't pinpoint anything specific that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Brackets to update and edit PHP, HTML, and CSS website files. Downloading the files from an FTP program like FileZilla opens them directly in Brackets, allowing me to make the required edits quickly and easily without wasting time. Color highlights within the code help me quickly identify where there might be an error with an opening and closing tag, for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aaditya Saha G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aaditya Saha G.") AG Aaditya Saha G. Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/15/2022 "Great and handy as a Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brackets? The visual appeal of the product is much more than just an editor.Offering just the right amount of help required rather than nagging on with features available. Features like Live Preview, Quick Edit, Quick View, Quick Docs and Code Hints for JavaScript, HTML and CSS. These features should help us to navigate, inspect and find the information we need at your fingertips Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? Serves the purpose of being a Web Development editor best, but for a person working on other languages this could not be a much sought after factor. Adding plugins and customisations could be easier on the editor which would be an addon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brackets: Recommended for people working with the web and since written on javascript, added benefits and learning experience on the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? Working on web related projects has been a cakewalk, live previews and code hints for javascript are very good features. If adept with using the editor productivity jumps by leaps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sanjit P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sanjit P.") SP Sanjit P. Software Engineer 1 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/19/2021 "My review on Brackets" 5/5 What do you like best about Brackets? Best inline coding and syntax highlighting. Live preview feature can be used to work simultaneously. Support for the many different languages with code auto-completion. Provides a marketplace to add custom add-ons makes things is easy to configure. Ability to code pretty formatting and syntax checking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? Does not include an autosave option default. Not much elegant compared to other competitors. Sometimes the app hands and runs into an unexpected shutdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brackets: Brackets is a simple to use and lightweight code editor. It works great for my team and me. It can handle more of your problems than other competitors quickly. Just go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? In my organization, we use Brackets for developing web applications based on various programming languages with its support. I always use the live preview feature, which enables me to see the code's output directly, hence saving a lot of time without even switching apps. Its support for various languages such as Java, C/C++, Python, GoLang makes development effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/27/2021 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anmol K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anmol K.") AK Anmol K. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/12/2022 "Review of Brackets" 4/5 What do you like best about Brackets? It has a very User-Friendly interface making it easy for users to navigate different things. One of its features, which I appreciate the most is its Live preview feature which many other IDE's fail to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? It has a long boot-up time which leaves a bad impression on the user working on it. It does not have a lot of plugins integration which is quite a setback. It sometimes lags when working on large projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using Brackets as a text editor for my C++ coding as I found it to be the most suitable with this language. It has increased my productivity by 30-40 percent by only providing live preview which is just fantabulous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/20/2022 "Web Development Rookie" 4/5 What do you like best about Brackets? The most useful feature and what I liked best was the ability to quickly render the HTML code and open the webpage for it in a browser of my choosing. Also, I liked that I can open the webpage side to side to my code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? I personally dislike the childish look of it. I first used it to teach elementary level kids HTML and CSS because the interface is very easy to work with but might be too simple for a professional developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brackets: It's a good first step when beginning to learn web development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? I typically use it for small webpage development and tutoring students on the side. It's convenient for small to medium scale projects. I am not using it for business but only for personal use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Apparel & Fashion](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Apparel & Fashion") UA Verified User in Apparel & Fashion Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/24/2021 "Brackets is a brilliant tool for HTML Emails" 5/5 What do you like best about Brackets? I like how it reveals when my html code is broken using colour coded type and the live previews that show how it will be seen to a customer. The preview windows are also responsive as they use Chrome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brackets? It would be great to get hints of why my code is broken, sometimes it highlights it as red but it could potentially give hints as to what would fix that particular bit of html. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brackets: I believe that the way we use brackets at JD Outdoors means that it is useable by people who may not necessarily be fluent in HTML coding and new to coding in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brackets solving and how is that benefiting you? We have built several templates using brackets with placeholder types or images. 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