--- title: Yi Reviews meta_title: 'Yi Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Yi works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 1.8 review_count: 2 scale: '5' date_modified: '2025-05-11' parent_category: name: Editor url: https://www.g2.com/categories/editor --- # Yi Reviews **Vendor:** HaskellWiki **Category:** [Text Editor Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/text-editor) **Average Rating:** 1.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 2 ## About Yi Yi is a text editor written in Haskell with a funcitonal editor core, keybindings, Emacs, Vim, and Cua emulations provided by default,Vty and GTK+ front ends and more. ## Yi Reviews ### 1. There are better options... **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew K. | Integration and Deployment Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Yi?** As text editors go, Yi is a pretty straightforward one. It has a cool logo! It's specifically geared towards Haskell developers and people who like to customize their tools. It doesn't feel clunky at all when I open it up and the installation process is pretty much detailed nicely on their website. **What do you dislike about Yi?** It's clunky to install. Just go to the website, and you can see it's not straightforward and automated in some cases. I feel like there are other tools out there that work out of the box and have just as good support for Haskell. I also don't like the lack of support for Windows. I understand it's primarily Haskell oriented and it's meant for haskell developers who are more comfortable with unix/mac anyway but it's still a blocker in terms of a lot of enterprise adoption. **Recommendations to others considering Yi:** It's an excellent tool to experiment and hack new features for fun. I don't think it is precisely enterprise quality in its current form. However, if your developers would like to use Yi, it should be fine. It's just another text editor. **What problems is Yi solving and how is that benefiting you?** There isn't a use case that is aided explicitly with Yi at the moment. I like that it's a functional and lightweight text editor. It gives me an excuse to practice using Haskell too. I used it mostly for myself because I like to tinker with things. ### 2. Text editor with emulation **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carelis C. | Application Development and Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Yi?** Mainly emulation of Emacs and Vim, integrate main language and interface with visible tools. **What do you dislike about Yi?** Little information about this project, installing and executing is difficult, integrating applications for specific development. **Recommendations to others considering Yi:** I recommend specific developers within Haskell, release and test system. **What problems is Yi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating with Emacs to emulate code within the system, free code and community development gives me the confidence to modify and program performance to my needs. ## Yi Discussions - [What app works with Yi camera?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-app-works-with-yi-camera) - [How do I connect my Yi camera to my computer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-connect-my-yi-camera-to-my-computer) - [Is Kami and Yi the same?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-kami-and-yi-the-same) - [What would you say is the next big focus for this tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-would-you-say-is-the-next-big-focus-for-this-tool) - 1 upvote - [View Yi pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/yi/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-06+02%3A55%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2a23f964-292e-4f6e-ba2c-75f54f6ca0ca&secure%5Btoken%5D=81de60fa439d01092ddd4461cdf7605c47f4603146d97b9f4bf8ed45d3bf9dcb&format=llm_user) ## Yi 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 Yi Alternatives - [Sublime Text](https://www.g2.com/products/sublime-text/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,747 reviews) - [Visual Studio Code](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,638 reviews) - [Notepad++](https://www.g2.com/products/notepad/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (2,411 reviews)