G2

David W.

Head of Engineering - Data and Business Intelligence

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/10/2023

"Great, free feature-rich macOS text editor"

5/5

What do you like best about Textmate?

It is a really powerful, highly capable text editor for macOS and it's free! If you miss Notepad++ when using macOS, this is an excellent alternative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Textmate?

Nothing really, it's a very capable app, and it is free. Actually, there is an option under one of the menus to add a license key, but if you choose to go to the shop to buy a license you simply get a page saying "licenses are not available for purchase" which is kind of weird. Maybe there's a plan one day to add licensing. Anyhow, right now that's probably the only thing I dislike and even that is trite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Textmate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Everyone needs to edit text files - especially those of us who work in IT. Config files, SQL queries, notes, everything - even lightweight code editing without a full-blown IDE. There are a billion reasons you need a text editor, and the included macOS TextEdit is not so awesome. On Windows, we'd use Notepad++ or some other options; on macOS we don't have Notepad++ but Textmate is a great option. In fact, so good, I wish it had a Windows option!

Anyhow, it provides a lightweight text editor but with a lot of features - tabs, multilanguage support, all kinds of things. It even persists your unsaved text files between opens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.