--- title: Tex-Edit Plus Reviews meta_title: 'Tex-Edit Plus Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Tex-Edit Plus works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-22' parent_category: name: Editor url: https://www.g2.com/categories/editor --- # Tex-Edit Plus Reviews **Vendor:** Trans-Tex Software **Category:** [Text Editor Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-editor) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Tex-Edit Plus Trans-Tex Software Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, ASCII text editor that fills the gap between a Apple's bare-bones TextEdit and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. It's also great for cleaning up text which is transmitted over the Internet. ## Tex-Edit Plus Reviews ### 1. Nice text editor while you working for scripting **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pawan K. | Bigdata Platform Architect at HCL Technologies Limited, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** It's effortless to use Shortcut and text alignment while I am working on Linux scripting **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** sometimes getting slowness while working on the massive size of the file **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data copy and filtration, excellent features while doing open source programming ### 2. Best for nocturnal users **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** I use text edit plus mostly at night because of its dark mode feature, it heavily reduces eye strain. It takes very less storage and very easy to learn in first go. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** There is nothing to dislike, it works well for almost everything. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this to prepare notes of everything I learn and also write down important thing i need to do. ### 3. Really fun text editor to play with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary T. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** ASCII art, line, and content randomization, background and font customization. Sometimes work can get very stressing, this is the kind of program you use to relax after coding for a few hours and finding that the mistake was a missing ; The price of the license is worth less than 4 cups of coffee. I even buy a copy for a friend so we can mess with the ASCII art feature and relax from developing for a while. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** Honestly, there is nothing I dislike about this. I like it so much that if this was free I would donate to the project. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** Worth the price 100%. A friend at work recommended this program because of the ASCII art feature and just because of that it's 100% worth it. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is a great tool for coders when not coding, playful and funny to play with while spending minimal time generating fun things. ### 4. Really fun editor to play with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Armando R. | Marketing Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** ASCII Art allows me to create some pretty cool things, like creating a logo directly in ASCII. I can change the default font of the editor to one of my liking. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** From time to time the program crashes when doing the playful stuff included in the program, but it's ok nothing is lost when using that mode. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** Just for the ASCII image creator is worth the license price **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creates good and funny text based art in seconds, besides I can't code at all, but this is one of the few things that I can share with the engineers of my company, we love to play with tools like this one. ### 5. My favorite text editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Henry J. | Product Designer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** Many interesting and funny features like add text before and after a line of text, numbering, and very clean interface. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** The program sometimes crashes while doing the keypress simulator. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** The small license fee will pay itself really quick, it's less than 2 or 3 coffees don't hesitate to spend the $10. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I write all my emails from text edit plus before sending it to outlook, I really like the freedom that it provides and that everything is plain TXT without any hypertext embedded. ### 6. Improved notepad for windows **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan O. | Marketing Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** Like windows notepad but with extra really useful things like insert a number before any line to creat a list in seconds, you can change fonts inside the program to see the files and some funny extras like ASCII art and everything saved to .txt format. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** Software has a few bugs and from time to time you'll find an error message, but the good thing is that it doesn't crash it just shows an error message and you can continue working. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** Quick ASCII art is one of the many cool integrated features to have fun with. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** A good replacement for notepad with cool extra features ### 7. My goto text editor for everything non code related. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tania C. | Data Center Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** Create lists easily, included ASCII art creator. You can change the default font to something more to your liking. The randomize lines is a great feature to create raffles. Really cheap license and lifetime updates. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** It's perfect for the price and features it offers. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** If you are like me and like to keep your coding tools and text tools separate, this is the best text editor I have found so far that is not code oriented. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Drafting my emails, creating word art and editing text files in general ### 8. The best text editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** I like that the editor is very lightweight and doesn't consume many resources. Additionally, it is very easy to use from the get-go. There is no configuration required out of the box, which means there is no learning curve. I prefer this over a typical vim editor as it allows one to bold and underline and do other basic editing tasks. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** Working with scripts in Text Edit Plus requires a bit of getting used to what commands Text Edit will understand and implement, but once you adjust to what you can and cannot do with scripts, the program is easy to use quickly. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** If you find that you are not using the more complicated features in MS Word or Pages, but standard text editing is too simple for your needs, try using Text Edit Plus to fill the gap in the middle of those software pieces. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Text Edit Plus saved us money because we didn't need the full set of MS Word functionalities, and now we don't have to worry about paying for MS Office upgrades or subscriptions. ### 9. Great reliable full featured editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** I like that the editor is very light and doesn't consume a lot of resources. Additionally it is really easy to use from the get-go. There is no configuration required out of the box which means there is no learning curve. I prefer this over a typical vim editor as it allows one to bold and underline and do other basic editing tasks **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** Unfortunately it doesn't sync with the cloud. For anyone looking for anything more full-featured like tables and tabs and excel integration, you won't find it here. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** Keep your eyes and ears open. Often times we will only consider the incumbents. They are a worthy competitor to notepad and Microsoft word with a great price to boot! **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Essentially note taking is a breeze with this tool. I will use this tool to collect my thoughts. It doesn't crash like word does so this is the most reliable text editor that I use. ### 10. It's nice **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** It was pretty easy to use and figure out. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** I thought it was text plus plus and it wasn't. The UI was really similar. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Coding on my laptop. It's ok. ### 11. Simple to use for editing files quickly **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen A. | Front-End Designer, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** I can edit and create files from plain text to CSS source code, it is tremendously fast and clean. What I like most about it is the clarity of how the fonts look within the files and its elegant interface. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** Probably the lack of some important features, or the ability for more plugins and add-ons. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** It is a simple tool, it focuses on solving the editing of files and that's it. If you want something more complex and robust for application development, consider other options. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing and creation of source code files in CSS and plain text files in general. ### 12. Great experience with this daily-use program **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro P. | Desarrollador sénior, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** Excellent application that meets all my general expectations in a text editor, reliable, effective, and most importantly, super easy to use and configure according to the needs of the team and project. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** It could be much more robust and scale to a full IDE, it is oriented towards general use and therefore lacks many more specific tools. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** I recommend it if you want a simple yet very powerful and reliable editor overall. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it as a plain text editor in general and to fix last-minute errors in my source code. ### 13. A better text editor overall **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura R. | Ingeniero de software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2016 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** What I like the most is how simple it can be to use this text editor; it has well-defined and simple options that add that extra touch to a text editor. This is the kind of tool you use daily, and it gets you out of a bind when you want to view a file or quickly edit it. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** So far everything works well, I don't complain, maybe in the future it should have some more features. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** If you want a more complete and specific text editor, you should use others currently on the market. However, this simple editor has several features that might impress you. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Edit and create files of all types, it runs super fast and can handle multiple files at the same time. ### 14. Text Edit Plus **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** Text Edit Plus is better replacement for Notepad. Advantage for beginners in coding, as it provides complete correct line of code and syntax. Auto completion is good advantage. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** Ease of plugins installation to EditPlus **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web Development and XSLT and web browser for html files. ### 15. good general purpose text editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James B. | Business Intelligence Developer, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** good general purpose text editor for Macs, better than Apple Script **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** not as good as some text editors I use on windows **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** general purpose text editing eg code snippets ### 16. Great Alternative to MS Word for Most **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francis Andrew B. | Rental Equipment Services, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** Text Edit plus has exactly all the features I need, and nothing more. It expands slightly on the OS X default Text Edit standard, but doesn't come with the price tag of Microsoft Word. Text Edit Plus loads quickly, has all of my basic formatting options, and maintains a very clean UI. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** Working with scripts in Text Edit Plus requires a little getting used to as far as what commands Text Edit will understand and implement, but once you adjust to what you can and cannot do with scripts the program is easy to use quickly. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** If you find that you aren't using the more complicated features in MS Word or Pages, but Text Edit standard is too simple for your needs, try using Text Edit Plus to fill in the gap in the middle of those pieces of software. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Text Edit Plus saved us money because we did not need the full feature set of MS Word, and now we don't have to worry about paying for MS Office upgrades or subscriptions. ### 17. Handy text editor for simple tasks **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zoraida M. | Junior Front-End Developer, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2016 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** It has all features for common editing needs, it runs flawless in OSx, it's cheaper than others alternatives, it's lightweight and loads quickly. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** You have to configure and adapt it for specific tasks, the UI can be quite outdated, it only supports OSx. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** A great alternative, it's simple and has all features that you need for simple editing tasks. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic text editing, it's a simple and lightweight tool that can help you to be more productive in daily editing tasks. ### 18. Text Editor for OSx Users With Simple Needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M. Serhat D. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2016 **What do you like best about Tex-Edit Plus?** TextEdit Plus is a simple, lightweight word processor for OSx. It's well known with additional improvements on Text Edit for developers, I like TextEdit Plus because it's fast, lightweigh, user-friendly, well supported and free. **What do you dislike about Tex-Edit Plus?** The website of TextEdit Plus needs to be designed better. Low quality graphics with the interface of the software is also needs to be improved. TextEdit Plus only supports OSx which is not that acceptable nowadays. **Recommendations to others considering Tex-Edit Plus:** I totally recommend you to try TextEdit Plus. TextEdit Plus might look like an old fashion text editor to you at first, but it does the job without any issues that you need to solve. **What problems is Tex-Edit Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?** TextEdit Plus is pretty satisfying as a text editor. It has a simple interface, it's lightweight and non-distracting. I feel more productive when I'm using TextEdit Plus. ## Tex-Edit Plus Discussions - [What features do plain text editor support?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/tex-edit-plus-what-features-do-plain-text-editor-support-93bbfa85-185c-4b09-a444-f8dd9981e158) - [What features do plain text editor support?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/tex-edit-plus-what-features-do-plain-text-editor-support) - [What is the use of EditPlus?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/tex-edit-plus-what-is-the-use-of-editplus) - [What is the use of EditPlus?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-use-of-editplus) - [What are the features of text editing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/text-edit-plus-what-are-the-features-of-text-editing) - [View Tex-Edit Plus pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/tex-edit-plus/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-24+23%3A56%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7ca68d44-29b5-4308-84fa-8be1ee419b7a&secure%5Btoken%5D=27de1fa86603f96009e48edcc089e0bde1edde50f6ddc7a4af0db634f7e6f143&format=llm_user) ## Tex-Edit Plus Features **Coding** - Syntax highlighting - Autocompletion - Find and replace - Code folding **Design** - Graphics - Templates - Themes **Editing** - Collaborative editing - Language Support - Selection Methods **Collaboration** - Multi-User Collaboration - Real-Time Communication **Functionality** - Extensibility - Cross-platform support - Plugins and integrations - Security **File Types** - Export - Import - Web Publishing **Edit & Revise** - Revision History - Suggestion Mode - Document Editor **Integrate & Embed** - Calendar - Website - Applications **Agentic AI - Landing Page Builders** - Cross-system Integration **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 Tex-Edit Plus Alternatives - [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 (1,748 reviews) - [UltraEdit](https://www.g2.com/products/ultraedit/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (1,103 reviews)