--- title: jEdit Reviews meta_title: 'jEdit Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how jEdit works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 14 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Editor url: https://www.g2.com/categories/editor --- # jEdit Reviews **Vendor:** jEdit **Category:** [Text Editor Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-editor) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About jEdit jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. ## jEdit Reviews ### 1. Best and Compatiable tool for Every Language JEdit **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about jEdit?** JEdit is the best tools and the best part of this tool is that we can use whatever language we want use and its compatible to all operating system and the memory taken by this tool is too minimal and I m really habitual for this tool. By using the extension of this we can even the program as well as. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** There is nothing which is dislike in this. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Easy to use 2. Too much memory uses. 3. Compatible to all operating system. 4. Can perform the output for any language and have suggestion for methods for all language. ### 2. jEdit is an editor compatible with various programming languages and has good plugins **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor A. | Arquitecto de software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2019 **What do you like best about jEdit?** jEdit is a fast and lightweight editor. The most important feature is that it comes with a wide variety of syntax add-ons such as automatic completion and others as automatic saving. Another feature that fascinates me about this application is its directory, which allows me to easily find files. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** I can be a bit complicated to configure the appearance of the software. I also don't like some things, for example, jEdit does not receive updates very frequently and when it receives them some packages are no longer available. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** jEdit is a great software to handle several files at once. I think it has good complements to facilitate coding. In my opinion, it is a very stable editor and if you have not used it, at least try. I recommend it. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use jEdit specifically to write CSS codes. It is very convenient because it has highlights with colors that I can choose myself. I have been very happy with this editor for its ease of use and the speed with which it loads the files, without consuming many resources. ### 3. Nice editor for hardcore java developers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2018 **What do you like best about jEdit?** It is versatile, powerful and light - weight. I like that it is a powerful text editor and yet doesn't slow my system. I like that it combines the efficiency of other editors on a single platform like unlimited redos/undos etc. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** The UI can be improved a bit keeping in mind the new text editors which are coming in the market. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** Try to explore all the options and features that jEdit provide while you are using it. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I did regular Java programming for the project using jEdit and it quite powerful and flexible editor. I like the auto indent feature and multiple redos feature a lot. ### 4. It works well, does what it's supposed to. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2018 **What do you like best about jEdit?** I like how clean-cut it is to change and edit things as needed. **What do you dislike about jEdit?** The user experience design isn't my favorite thing ever. **Recommendations to others considering jEdit:** Give it a go. **What problems is jEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** My coworkers use it more than I do, but it is better for the senior programmer than some of the alternatives. ## jEdit Discussions - [What is jEdit used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-jedit-used-for) - [why dont make it faster and less ram hungry?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26488-why-dont-make-it-faster-and-less-ram-hungry) - 1 upvote - [View jEdit pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/jedit/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+22%3A20%3A40+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c02094f4-85a3-4d33-a28c-b1ca36de90c4&secure%5Btoken%5D=c13ef490146ea50085599aa314d10d41ed19bec60b5765861974a3a2b1e6f012&format=llm_user) ## jEdit 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 jEdit Alternatives - [Notepad++](https://www.g2.com/products/notepad/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (2,413 reviews) - [Visual Studio Code](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,658 reviews) - [Sublime Text](https://www.g2.com/products/sublime-text/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,749 reviews)