81 Ratings
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97 Ratings
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Based on 97 reviews and ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Atom is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
- Atom and NetBeans are tied in 1 area: Usability
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
Atom
96%
30 Ratings

7.8
NetBeans
78%
21 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
Atom
100%
1 Rating

NetBeans
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
9.0
Atom
90%
2 Ratings

9.0
NetBeans
90%
2 Ratings
Support Rating
8.4
Atom
84%
24 Ratings

8.3
NetBeans
83%
7 Ratings
Implementation Rating
10.0
Atom
100%
2 Ratings

NetBeans
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Atom
Atom is great for developers looking for a completely hackable experience. There is a ton of plugins available to you, and you can really build an editor that matches your own personal taste. The performance is also pretty neat and does not impact your CPU as much as the competition.

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employeesNetBeans
NetBeans is extremely user friendly and easy to start developing complex applications. Adding and configuring external libraries is much simpler than in Eclipse. It is highly cost effective and most of the latest framework based libraries required are automatically downloaded to the projects. The overall tool is also light weight and consumes less memory as compared to other competitor tools.
Information Technology Specialist III
Office of Legislative Counsel State of CaliforniaGovernment Relations, 501-1000 employees
Pros
Atom
- Atom is highly customizable and allows for various themes and extensions that can make your code easier to read.
- Atom has many code hinting features that allow users to write faster and integrate with services likeLINT that can clean up your code once your done to meet your internal teams style choices.
- It's very fast and manages projects well - Accessing other files within a related folder(s) is very easy and intuitive.
- It's free!
Sr. Instructional Designer
Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and QualityEducation Management, 10,001+ employees
NetBeans
- Debugging - Save time hunting down errors by stepping through the code to find the root of a problem.
- Refactoring - Easily rename classes and variables or make other structural changes using built-in refactoring tools.
- Service management - NetBeans integrates seamlessly with web application servers like Tomcat and GlassFish.
- Source control - Works well with Git and other version control tools.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employeesCons
Atom
- There should be a better user tips manual page to learn keyboard shortcuts
- It would also be beneficial if mathematical and data analytic tools were added
- it has quite high start-up timing when you open large projects to work on it
- Sometimes, atom closed suddenly and do not open again
- It still lacks better options with the previews even though there are already some by users adding plugins
- It doesn't have self-correct features for lint errors, unlike IntelliJ
Software Engineer
Kognoz ConsultingE-Learning, 11-50 employees
NetBeans
- NetBeans [should] work smoothly with systems having less RAM. Systems with less RAM face trouble with NetBeans.
- File open history also requires improvement. Once NetBeans is restarted, all files are closed automatically and there is no shortcut to open last opened files.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesPricing Details
Atom
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—NetBeans
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Atom
Atom 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Well Atom is open source so the re-new is a no brainer. The only way I would stop using Atom is if the developers somehow made it not function well. Or, if the project got forked to a commercial version or something. Or, there could be the case that development stops or that it was not updated on this or that platform
Instructional Technologist
Pomona CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees
NetBeans
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Atom
Atom 9.0
Based on 2 answers
I give Atom a 9 because it is one of the most modern text editors built with JavaScript intentionally to allow the editor to be changed and modified with custom functionality that a team may need. I think I would otherwise give atom an 8 due to support, but it gets a 9/10 because of the extensibility/plugin capability.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesNetBeans
NetBeans 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Netbeans enhances my coding work, shows me where I have errors and helps find variable instances. I would be lost without find/replace in projects functionality as I use projects as templates for new projects. Occasionally the code hints aggravate me, but I understand that it is actually making me a better coder, working to get the 'green light' of a clean file with no errors or clumsy code.
Senior Consultant
NavigantUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
Support Rating
Atom
Atom 8.4
Based on 24 answers
Atom has an active forum and a Slack group where you can ask technical questions. Occasionally, the authors will pop in to answer a few questions here and there, but most of the time, its other helpful users who will assist you. Though they aren't the most knowledgeable, they are at least timely.
As for plugin support, that differs with each plugin, but as I mentioned before, many plugins are no longer maintained.
Senior Software Engineer
IterableInternet, 201-500 employees
NetBeans
NetBeans 8.3
Based on 7 answers
NetBeans has a very strong user community. We can find solutions here for almost all the problems we face. In addition, we can forward NetBeans Support teams the problems we cannot solve. We can get quick feedback from the support teams, but I generally try to solve my problems by following the forums.
Business Intelligence Consultant
EMO A.ŞInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees
Implementation Rating
Atom
Atom 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Just download and install
Instructional Technologist
Pomona CollegeHigher Education, 201-500 employees
NetBeans
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Atom
They are both pretty good; however, Sublime is free to use but on a trial basis. Atom is free open source. Sublime doesn't have the Github integration or a project file browser. Sublime does have a workspace view option but haven't really used it as much as Atom.
Information Designer
The Pixel ZooOnline Media, 1-10 employees
NetBeans
Netbeans is great as a stand-alone java ide and for compiling your java code. The platform provides easy access to better make use of your repos. Between the other ide, NetBeans is easier for us to integrate with android SDK. The only problem is the UI and for all other code needs, you just use visual studio code.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employeesReturn on Investment
Atom
- The tool we use when we need quick fixes. Allows fast, reliable scripting to fix urgent problems in our applications.
- When applications grow from 5-10 files to 100's, they need to be migrated to a heavier-duty IDE. This can be cumbersome and quite annoying, but is necessary to maintain code integrity on such a large scale (since it cannot be done with the limited default toolset of Atom).
DevOps Engineer
CBREReal Estate, 10,001+ employees
NetBeans
- By working on Netbeans I just learned one more tool and can teach others about it. One should learn every tool so that it might help someday if another editor is not available and you have to use different software for your work.
- Compiling code became easy as it is not a feature of normal text editors. Only IDE can do this.
Network Engineer
BTTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees