BBEdit

BBEdit

16 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BBEdit	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	BBEdit is a text editor from Bare Bones software headquartered in Massachusetts.	N/A

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BBEdit

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BBEdit
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

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Community Pulse
	BBEdit
Considered Both Products	BBEdit Kevin O'Grady Founder Chose BBEdit BBEdit wins over TextEdit every time. They are as different as chalk and cheese. I am so glad we moved to BBEdit. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Prewitt Creative Director Chose BBEdit Compared to Brackets, BBEdit feels faster, leaner, and has more utility value. Brackets feel oriented towards coders specifically, whereas BBEdit is like a toolbox of text tools for a wide array of needs. I feel like the same is probably true for Visual Studio Code, but I have … Incentivized Helpful? Courtney Birnbaum Senior Publications Specialist Chose BBEdit BBEdit holds a spot on my computer dock because of its reliable, functional and straightforward uses in text management and script processing. While a computer's default text program, such as TextEdit, has some of the same abilities as BBEdit, TextEdit lacks the appearance … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Eaton Senior Digital Strategist Chose BBEdit As a pure software IDE, BBEdit is showing its age. It's got things like syntax highlighting, source control support, and integration with command-line compilers… but popular features like automated refactoring and debugger integration have left it behind. On the other hand, … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Mendelson, MBA Founder \| Digital Marketing Strategist & Facebook Lead Gen Expert Chose BBEdit No comparison. On my Mac, Microsoft Visual Studio Code was instantly buggy. Incentivized Helpful? Audrey Burn Owner, Graphic and Web Designer Chose BBEdit I've been using BBEdit for code needs for many years, haven't felt the need to switch to anything else. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Chose BBEdit We have, and also use, Atom, Notepad++, and BlueFish which are all OpenSource. BBEdit is quickly losing ground to some of these other programs. Most of the time we end up switching to one of these other programs is because we are on a new computer and we know we can just grab … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Highly configurable Pro Slow down Pro Source control
Top Cons	Minus Studio code Minus Free trial Minus Visual studio code

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User Ratings
	BBEdit
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (7 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BBEdit
Likelihood to Recommend	Bare Bones Software I'm primarily a graphic designer who does occasional web development. For me, BBEdit works very well. I use it both for developer projects (editing code, editing system files) and for general text processing (cleaning up, formatting, or extracting text). I like that it offers real-time previews of edits to web project files. It comes with some nice editor themes and supports adding more or customizing them. I expect that for some coders, it will be inadequate. It is not an IDE. On the other end of the spectrum, someone who expects an experience more like Microsoft Word will be very disappointed; or if they wanted something more along the lines of Windows Notepad, they may find it to be overkill. It is an ASCII text editor with many advanced commands and tools built-in. Incentivized Michael Prewitt Creative Director Read full review
Pros	Bare Bones Software BBEdit remembers what I had open, so I never have to worry about losing work when I accidentally close the software. It will hold onto information almost indefinitely, so that the next time I open a program, I can access the information that I may have forgotten to save. Thankfully, its save function is also very simple to use, so I recommend still saving your work as needed. Scripts are the most important aspect of BBEdit for the company I work for. Being able to import scripts and create new ones all in the same location are great. Incentivized Courtney Birnbaum Senior Publications Specialist Read full review
Cons	Bare Bones Software The cost of this product has just become too much for the functionality that most people need. You can find free or $10 tools that do what most people need to do. The BBEdit program has lots of functionality, but could it be too much? Are there too many options? It seems that there are too many upgrades. Incentivized Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Read full review
Support Rating	Bare Bones Software I've been using BBEdit — no joke — for nearly three decades now. Believe it or not, I'm still getting "upgrade pricing" 13 versions later. Bare Bones' support has always been stellar, and pricing continues to be affordable compared to similar tools. Incentivized Jeff Eaton Senior Digital Strategist Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Bare Bones Software BBEdit wins over TextEdit every time. They are as different as chalk and cheese. I am so glad we moved to BBEdit. Incentivized Kevin O'Grady Founder Read full review
Return on Investment	Bare Bones Software It saves me time, not only with web projects, but even with design, when I want to strip out formatting in text, I bring it in to BBEdit to clean it up. Incentivized Audrey Hoffman Owner, Graphic and Web Designer Read full review
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