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Are you part of the UltraEdit team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! UltraEdit is a text and code editor built for work that general-purpose editors often struggle with: large files, complex data manipulation, and security-sensitive workflows. It has been in the market for more than 30 years, is used by over 4 million users worldwide, and is trusted by enterprise customers across the Fortune 100, 500, and 1000. Individual users choose UltraEdit when everyday editors start to hit their limits. Common use cases include working with very large files, running advanced search and replace, using column and block editing, and handling more complex text and data manipulation. Organizations choose UltraEdit when they need a more secure and supportable editor behind sensitive workflows. That includes teams in banking, insurance, healthcare, government, and other regulated or risk-sensitive environments where unsupported tools can create too much uncertainty. Key capabilities: - Performance under heavy tasks, including support for files above 4 GB - Advanced search and replace - Column and block editing for structured data tasks - Complex text and data manipulation - Offline activation for restricted environments - Commercial support with priority handling for critical concerns Often called the "Swiss army knife" of text editors, UltraEdit is a tool that no IT professional should be without. From programming and project management to large file manipulation, from data sorting and text record formatting to remote (FTP/SFTP) file operations, from advanced file searching and text data reformatting, there's almost no problem that UltraEdit can't solve in the world of text editing. UltraEdit is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and is backed by a professional development team and support staff. * * * Seller [Idera, Inc.](https://www.g2.com/sellers/idera-inc-2026-07-14) Discussions [UltraEdit Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ultraedit/discuss) Languages Supported German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Ben Schwenk (General Manager, DevOps, Idera Inc.) Show More ## Typical Contract Price Pricing provided by BetterCloud and others. $$k - $$k Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing](/auth/linkedin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g2.com%2Fproducts%2Fultraedit%2Freviews) ## User Insights Average based on 1124 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ Typical contract price $0k - $0k [Sign in to view](/login) Per Year [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Peter L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Peter L.") PL Peter L. Programmer / Analyst II Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/22/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "UltraEdit - The world's best text editor!" 5/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? Hex Edit, Regex, Column Mode, Low Memory Usage, Fast Find in Files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? The only oddity is occasional syntax highlight issues when using HTML and/or PHP. Certain operators don't highlight correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? Many, many times in business, we receive files that need cleanup. UltraEdit is my go-to, because of the regex support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/24/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Alvaro F Ramos P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alvaro F Ramos P.") AP Alvaro F Ramos P. Consultor de Sistemas Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/24/2021 "Ultraedit Pro 5" 4/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? Languages, column mode, macros. If I were to say everything, it wouldn't even fit here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? the current price, too expensive for Brazil. For my use, I don't remember anything additional being necessary. I still use the old version that runs on Windows inside the Virtual Machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I use it as a text editor, for subtitles, languages, book assemblies, educational material, and at the same time I create in Word, Excel, and PDFs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: OrganicAI Translated ![Simon P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Simon P.") SP Simon P. Professor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/2/2021 "Best available text editor" 5/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? Uedit is pwerful but intuitive and easy to use. Column edit mode is excellent and beyond useful. Side-by-side file comparisons with high-lighted line differences. Quick and easy handling of multiple open files. Hex edit mode. Handling large files. I've had files of over 11 million lines that openned just fine. Ability to inserting a sequence of numbers in columns. Quick and intuitive recording of macros. Lots of help on the internet for solving problems, e.g. where to find options in menus. Quick response times from Uedit support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? I've been a user for over 20 years and there's nothing about Uedit that I dislike. The highlighting modes for Python and HTML are handy and it would be nice to have something similar for Fortran. Uedit is generally quick to load, but I've a feeling that the 64 bit version loads slightly more slowly than the old 32 bit version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering UltraEdit: If handling text files is something you do often, then consider Uedit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Uedit constantly for editing input files for numerical analysis programs. This involves editing text files of course, but also file comparisons, formating data, writing computer code and other scripts. The quick switching between line and column editing is especially useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Kent H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kent H.") KH Kent H. Vice President, Data Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/22/2021 "I have used UltraEdit for 15 years, all day every day. It is my most favorite tool." 5/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? UltraEdit is very intuitive to use and set up the way you want. As a professional SAS programmer, I make use of macros, templates, and custom tools to run my programs. I use its comparison tools to track changes over time and love features like columnar editing, and writing javascript extensions. I like that it handles large files well, and fast. I like that it handles double-byte fonts flawlessly. The support has been really great. I even made a feature request, knowing it wouldn't be a high priority, and 2 years later they contacted me to let me know that my feature had been implemented, and asked me to test the feature in a pre-release. I was very impressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? Not much I can't think of things I'd change. It is my go-to tool for editing non-document text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering UltraEdit: UltraEdit is the most complete source-code editor for situations that do not require an IDE. When deciding on an editor, look for ease of use, management within your organization. We have found that UltraEdit is very easy to maintain, and roll out to employees' machines. We have the employee start UltraEdit up which creates all the necessary internal links, then we can overwrite the defaults with our corporate setup and in about 2 minutes we can have a user ready to work. Also, look to see if UltraEdit has syntax highlighting for the language you'll be using. It has a vast array of those, and if not, a custom one can be built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I am a SAS programmer, and UltraEdit's custom tools allow me to send jobs to a back-end server that works very well. I also frequently edit very large files, and many tools balk at the size. Ultraedit does not. It handles them very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/26/2022 "Great powerful editing tool" 4/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? Its editing capability, such as vertical selection of text and applying the change simultaneously. It's another capability that allows using regular expression search and mass find and replace operation. File/script comparison make easier with this as I can easily compare two versions of a file and see the differenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? I do not think I have found anything so far that makes it cons. As an editor, it has many features that help in many ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering UltraEdit: It makes your job easy to manage text files or program scripts. Features include regular expression search and replace, comparison between multiple versions of a file, mass editing etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? Text file or Program scripts to be managed efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") AT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/13/2021 "Perfect editot for huge or strange files" 5/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? The most important benefit is the capability of handling huge files (e.g. event logs). It's also great to get useful text strings out of binaries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? Up to now I did not find any things to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering UltraEdit: search and compare at your own, quite likely you will end up using UltraEdit Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? The most important benefit is the capability of handling huge files (e.g. event logs). It's also great to get useful text strings out of binaries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/14/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") UO Verified User in Oil & Energy Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/22/2021 "Long time user" 5/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? Column mode, record macros, split screen, saves work when PC reboots, follow logs files as they update, search line summary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? When viewing a log file that continues to update constantly, I constantly get a message asking to refresh the file. No option to wait for 1/5/10 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? Making changes to network devices and writing configuration scripts. Saves time and helps prevent errors in my configuration scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/25/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller 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.) 3/24/2021 "Ultraedit is a great file editing tool for developers!" 5/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? Ultraedit is easy to use, and blazingly fast! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? Ultraedit has so many features, it's sometimes difficult to find what I'm looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I develop code in a very efficient manner when using UltraEdit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/24/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/19/2022 "UltraEdit Review" 4/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? The easiest way to select any text in any form. You have multiple options in ultraedit like column mode, row mode etc to select your text according to your need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? The user interface is something I don't like in ultraedit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? To open any text and select data from anywhere in that text file or any other file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/19/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Arne S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Arne S.") AS Arne S. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/11/2021 "My editor of choice" 5/5 What do you like best about UltraEdit? Ultraedit has been my text editor of choice since I bought a lifetime upgrade license as a poor student. Back then, it was one of the most sofisticated text editing tools in existence, and I loved the power of scripting, hex editing, html support and built-in ftp client. While I often use other editors for my work as a software developer, I regularly return to UltraEdit because some features are just easier to use, or only available there. It does great work on huge files, and the column editing features are a life saver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about UltraEdit? I don't enjoy using UltraEdit for software development. To me, it lacks many features of a full-fledged IDE, and so I switch between two or three editors depending on the purpose of my editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is UltraEdit solving and how is that benefiting you? I regularly use UltraEdit for generating boilerplate code from lists of properties, regex replacing in huge files, and for prettifying xml, json and other formats for easier reading. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about UltraEdit? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about UltraEdit ](https://www.g2.com/products/ultraedit/discussions/new) ![Mani Teja P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mani Teja P.") MP Mani Teja Punna • Last activity 23 days ago How is it different from the other software like notepad++ and what benefits are there? 3 Upvotes 11 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-is-it-different-from-the-other-software-like-notepad-and-what-benefits-are-there) ![Paolo C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Paolo C.") 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