--- title: Lime Text Reviews meta\_title: 'Lime Text Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Lime Text works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.5 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Editor url: https://www.g2.com/categories/editor --- # Lime Text Reviews & Product Details Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go that aims to be a Free and open-source software successor to Sublime Text. * * * Seller [Bootstrap](https://www.g2.com/sellers/bootstrap) Discussions [Lime Text Community](https://www.g2.com/products/lime-text/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/lime-text/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Sublime Text](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sublime Text") Sublime Text 4.5/5(1,783) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sublime-text/reviews) [ ![Notepad++](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Notepad++") Notepad++ 4.6/5(2,475) ](https://www.g2.com/products/notepad/reviews) [ ![Visual Studio Code](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Visual Studio Code") Visual Studio Code 4.7/5(2,732) ](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/lime-text/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Erick B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Erick B.") EB Erick B. Founder Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/2/2016 "Still not ready, and difficult to install but has potential " 2/5 What do you like best about Lime Text? I like the philosophy of Lime Text, I have used sublime text in the past for about 2 years. The problems are very clear, it's not open source, there is really just one guy in charge of developing Sublime-Text! So LimeText being open source will handle this problem. The community will be able to contribute and speed up the development of plugins much quicker. The best part about LimeText(if you actually get it working), it that it's fast! Today it's main contender is the Atom editor, which in itself is probably the best. But it is relatively slow since it's build using web technology. The backend of LimeText uses the Go programming language. It's much faster, which is the main reason people love SublimeText Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Lime Text? So far the progress of this project has been very slow. I don't think people are so excited about it and although I think it will be stable at some point, don't expect it to be any time soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Lime Text: If you are still using Sublime Text 3 and Love the product, I would suggest to go to Github and star LimeText. In the future you will be able to do everything you can with SublimeText, but you will get faster updates and it will be free :D . As of today, if you're a working developer, I would just consider you try and play around with it, but that's as far as I'll go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Lime Text solving and how is that benefiting you? The main goal of my text editor is to be able to just get on my computer and instantly be able to make edits to my source files. Be it log files or just quick PHP files. LimeText surely has the speed needed for this. 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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