# PolyEdit Reviews **Vendor:** PolyEdit **Category:** [Document Creation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-creation) **Average Rating:** 3.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About PolyEdit PolyEdit is a multi-purpose word processor and text editor that is designed to help with word processing requirements and offers a variety of features, tools, add-ons so you do not have to jump between programs. ## PolyEdit Reviews ### 1. A useful option for simple writing and editing tasks **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad A. | Branding Manager, Airlines/Aviation, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2024 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** For rapid text creation and initial proofreading, PolyEdit is fast, unobtrusive, and does not overload the user interface. I consider it a good tool for writing emails and taking notes during meetings. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** I also found that PolyEdit does not have any actual collaboration tools. This disqualifies it for projects where there is work that must be done in cooperation on just one document. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I now use PolyEdit to generate ideas and to come up with the first draft of the content that I am developing. It is quite fast and convenient when it comes to first drafts which require none or very little interference with the flow of ideas. ### 2. A text editor to add functionality and improvements to the code of your applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel M. | Analista de Sistemas, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** PolyEdit has very favorable features such as its support for different languages, frames and environments. It should be noted that plugins can be installed without additional costs such as lineEdit. I am also surprised by its text protection option, which allows it to be possible to copy the content of my lines of code. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** The user interface can be a bit confusing. In my opinion, I have found it difficult to remember the position of some commands on the menu. In addition, you should install certain add-ons to the program when installed to take full advantage of its features. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** A good text editor if you like to install your own plugins to support the applications in which you work. On the other hand, PolyEdit has a fully accessible price. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** PolyEdit has given me support in the development of applications projects as it has package installation, folder management and other tools that I need to add functionality and improvements to the applications code. In addition, this editor supports several programming languages, so the language will not be an inconvenience when programming. ### 3. A software to start web projects with full guarantee **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sergio C. | Programador De Software Junior, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2019 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** PolyEdit is an easy editor to edit, delete or open large files. It has a simple interface with many features, with a design similar to Notepad ++. The advantages of this editor are the compatibility with different programming languages and their search functions. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** I believe that this editor should implement a code preview window to be able to notice the changes while programming. The autoformat function can also be a bit confusing, because there is no material online to install it. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** I would recommend PolyEdit without any doubt for its ease of installation, use and most features that may be useful for the development of your projects, scripts or queries. If you are an advanced developer, you will love this software. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** PolyEdit is a tool that gives me the ability to encode HTML, PHP, JavaScript easily for web applications. It is also beneficial to be able to open several files in multiple tabs within the PolyEdit instance without the program slowing down. In addition, its search functions allow me to quickly find the variables that I wrote wrong to be able to correct them. ### 4. A compact text editor and different configuration options   **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose C. | Arquitecto de Software NET, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2019 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** PolyEdit has a wide variety of functions to customize my experience as a developer. What I like most about this editor is that it has simplicity in its interface and fast file loading times. I also like the enumeration of lines, which allows me to maintain full control of the code to correct errors or quickly find variables. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** It has not allowed me to export the code to HTML and PDF, because it throws an "empty file" error. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** PolyEdit is a compact and easy-to-use editor, very effective for programmers. I consider that very configurable program and that unlike others, it is a light program. I recommend trying the experience and enjoying its features. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** PolyEdit has helped me to edit programs based on Java, HTML or PHP. I love the way it shows the code syntax for each language, giving me visibility for each one to quickly find errors. In addition, it has tools to find and replace text, which serve as a shortcut instead of reviewing line by line. ### 5. A simple and reliable text editor for different purposes **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo Q. | Arquitecto Software SR, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2019 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** PolyEdit is an editor compatible with several types of character encoding. This software has exceptional functions for word replacement and search. It is also compatible with programming languages. It has the ability to add add-ons and has a toolbar with excellent editing features such as OEM to ANSI conversion. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** PolyEdit lacks highlight in the syntax and the interface is very Microsoft Office style. In addition, it does not provide the functionality of an IDE with functions such as autocomplete or debuggers. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** A text editor with basic features and some advanced ones. It can work as coding software. Easy to use, a light product and supports add-ons. I recommend it. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool helps us to take notes of simple notes or quickly review programming projects. It is very easy to manage JavaScript files that have thousands of lines of code, scroll and make changes. In addition, it has good keyboard shortcuts to have more comfort. ### 6. A solid lightweight option for writers and editors **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh H. | Social Media Specialist, Government Administration, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** PolyEdit is a simple and straightforward rich text editor and word processor. It has all the main features you would expect to get the job done. It's not bloated like Microsoft Word and it's very snappy. Unlike the page layout mentality of something like Word, PolyEdit focuses on the text itself. It's designed with writing and editing in mind. Because of its slim and focused nature, PolyEdit is very easy to pick up and use. It will be very familiar to users of Microsoft Word, but even if you've never touched a word processor before, it shouldn't take long to start using everything in PolyEdit that you need. Outside of the basics like font style, alignment, color, and lists that Word or Google Docs offers you, PolyEdit does have a few unique features. It has a tabbed interface so you can quickly and easily switch between working documents on the fly. It includes some great tools to work with text, including sorting, snippets, and a built-in clipboard manager. It also has a wide variety of plugins and additional tools available on the developer's site. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** PolyEdit hasn't been updated in a long time, and its design looks a bit dated. It still has all the features you need to get writing done, but it seems unlikely that any new features or fixes will be added in the future. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** PolyEdit is a great tool, but keep in mind the fact that it hasn't been updated for a while. There's a chance it could break in newer versions of Windows. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** PolyEdit is a great tool for writers who just want to focus on the words. It limits the distractions of trying to write in a complicated software suite like Office or a web-based tool. ### 7. Great rich document editor **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard P. | Gerente de producto, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2016 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** Easy to use and lightweight, it has everything you need to edit documents, great images and tables support, multiple fonts picker, it can have multiple files opened, you can send documents by email and exports documents to PDF or HTML. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** It doesn't work well with new MSOffice documents, layers and margins can be messed up, UI is outdated, spelling support is very limited. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** There are many others applications in market for free, although it's a great tool is outdated and doesn't work with new documents format. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Documents editing/creating, it's a great lightweight alternative for simple editing daily tasks, you can create simple reports too or view PDF files. ### 8. Simple alternative for rich documents editing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucy K. | Diseñador de páginas web, Warehousing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** It has many editing features like images and figures, it supports math equations, it runs very fast and you can have multiple files open, you can set up your email and send documents directly on it, it has plugins and you can export documents to PDF or HTML. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** It doesn't support new .DOCX, it can only export to an older .DOC version, UI is very old, you can't use all features with a free version. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** It can be a great alternative if you don't want to install a heavy application to create simple documents. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple documents creation, it's a lightweight application with many features to create documents quickly. ### 9. Fantastic word processor alternative **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristobal M. | Desarrollador de java, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2016 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** It can read .DOC and .RTF files, you can encrypt documents, it runs fast, you can have multiple documents open, it has plugins, it supports advanced documents features like inserting equations, images, forms, you can send documents by email. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** It doesn't support new documents format like .DOCX, it doesn't export to PDF, it's not free and quite expensive. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** It's a lightweight tool with many features from more large applications, if you are doing simple editing tasks it's well suited for that. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing/Creating simple word documents, it runs fast and has many features to get the job done and ready to email it. ### 10. Simple word processor **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zoraida M. | Junior Front-End Developer, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2016 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** You can export to PDF/HTML, it has an option to send a document by email, you can insert tables, images, equations, it has plugins, you can open multiple files, it's a lightweight application and it runs fast. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** It doesn't support new .DOCX files, it can't open PDF files, the UI is very old, it's not free, usually documents created with it doesn't work with others word processors. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** It can be perfect for low-end computers or simple document editing tasks. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple document creation, it can be very handly for quickly and simple documents creation. ### 11. Lightweight word processor **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael B. | Gerente de recursos humanos, Legislative Office, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2016 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** It runs pretty fast, lightweight and minimalist, you can edit multiple files at same time, it has many edit features like advanced searching, it supports graphics and objects, it can open others format documents or send documents by email. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** It doesn't support .docx documents well, it's not free, UI is too messy with a bunch of buttons. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** You should considere it for quickly documents support and fast documents view. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing old .doc documents, creating tiny manuals, you can use many features without pay, it's very handy for basic editing and simple documents support. ### 12. Great alternative to edit documents **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paty G. | Desarrollador de software, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2016 **What do you like best about PolyEdit?** Simple and lightweight documents editor, it has all common features from others as well, easy to work with images and tables, you can send files by email and you can export documents to another formats. **What do you dislike about PolyEdit?** It's quite outdated and it doesn't work well with new MSOffice documents. **Recommendations to others considering PolyEdit:** It's great for simple editing tasks but if you need more advanced features you should consider more robusts options. **What problems is PolyEdit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Read/Edit rich documents. ## PolyEdit Discussions - [What is PolyEdit used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-polyedit-used-for) - [How do I use PolyEdit?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/39446-how-do-i-use-polyedit) - 1 upvote - [View PolyEdit pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/polyedit/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-28+07%3A52%3A57+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d42b001d-10ba-4a01-8775-e29a76af9dc4&secure%5Btoken%5D=99f7b9cccffa76b803e9dcd5169865362cbee58a04ab1ea7c8925f3480cc2774&format=llm_user) ## PolyEdit Features **Design** - Graphics - Templates - Themes **Collaboration** - Multi-User Collaboration - Real-Time Communication **File Types** - Export - Import - Web Publishing **Edit & Revise** - Revision History - Suggestion Mode - Document Editor **Integrate & Embed** - Calendar - Website - Applications **Operating System** - PC Operating System - Mac Operating System - Linux Operating System **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Speech - AI Image-to-Text **Agentic AI - Document Creation** - Proactive Assistance ## Top PolyEdit Alternatives - [Microsoft Word](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-word/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,989 reviews) - [Foxit PDF Editor](https://www.g2.com/products/foxit-pdf-editor/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (3,395 reviews) - [Nitro PDF](https://www.g2.com/products/nitro-pdf/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (370 reviews)