TextPad vs. UltraEdit

TextPad

TextPad

6 Reviews and Ratings

UltraEdit

UltraEdit

22 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
TextPad	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	TextPad is a free and open source general purpose plain text file editor, for Windows.	N/A
UltraEdit	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	UltraEdit is a text editor from IDM Computer Solutions headquartered in Hamilton.	N/A

Pricing

TextPad

UltraEdit

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
TextPad	UltraEdit
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	TextPad	UltraEdit
Considered Both Products	TextPad Gary Davis Director Chose TextPad When you want to quickly edit a file, TextPad starts up quickly and has many features over Microsoft Notepad. Visual Studio Code is an alternative in that it is full-featured and will edit text files but is slower at startup. I prefer the macro feature in TextPad due to its … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose TextPad Textpad and Notepad++ are by far my preferred programs to use for the development process. Incentivized Helpful?	UltraEdit MP Marc Paige AVP Digital and Data Solutions Chose UltraEdit UltraEdit is more stable and has a cleaner update process. Incentivized Helpful? MW Mary Westheimer Business Manager Chose UltraEdit I used to use Microsoft's Notepad, but it is primitive compared to UltraEdit! A programmer introduced me to UltraEdit a long time ago, and I've used it ever since. It may be overkill for our use, but I've never found another program that has the power I want at my fingertips! Incentivized Helpful? Marc Shaffer CEO Chose UltraEdit More functional and easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose UltraEdit Blows basic notepad out of the water. Have tested Edit++ and a few other text editors, and did not find the same breadth of support or ease of use and with UltraEdit. There is a world of choices out there, but for the price, this one is all you need. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose UltraEdit When compared to most file editing programs UltraEdit usually comes out on top for being extremely flexible and feature-rich. We depend on it every day and although we have several other editors available to us we seem to always go back to this time and time again. Very … Incentivized Helpful? Mathieu Gaouette Consultant BI senior/Administrateur - spécialité SAS Chose UltraEdit Notepad++ does have a lot of the base features of Ultraedit. However, Ultraedit brings a lot more to the table and the corporate licence makes it interesting for large companies. I would still advise small companies to look at it as they can get units for a reasonable price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose UltraEdit I have evaluated Notepad++ as an alternative to UltraEdit. In some cases, such as loading time, Notepad++ is a superior product. However, in terms of editing existing macros, and editing very large text files UltraEdit is a much better product. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	TextPad	UltraEdit
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	TextPad	UltraEdit
Likelihood to Recommend	If you have a large codebase I would highly recommend getting TextPad for your users. It is very fast and efficient and affordable. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Overall, a great tool for handling large files. Code formatting is very nice and customizable making it very easy to write scripts or SQL or any other language. It is easy to navigate and it remembers files and keeps them in context when shut down and relaunched. My analysts and programmers all use this editor every day. Incentivized MP Marc Paige AVP Digital and Data Solutions Read full review
Pros	Quick to load. Very fast searching algorithm for finding and replacing text. Macros are very useful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Search and replace in files that are not open Cut and paste columns - I don't know any other program that can do this! Is a super fast and powerful text editor. Incentivized MW Mary Westheimer Business Manager Read full review
Cons	I would like a "delete non-bookmarked lines" so I can skip the "invert bookmarks" step. The "Compare Text Files" could be streamlined to compare text in 2 tabs without going through the save steps. Incentivized Gary Davis Director Read full review	It would be great if a total page view, including images and spacing would be helpful. More automated for repetitive functions. Incentivized Marc Shaffer CEO Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	As a program UltraEdit comes ready to use out of the box and requires very little setup for it to be extremely useful. It's flexibility among a wide array of tasks and files makes it a go-to for all our troubleshooting and data viewing needs. Timely updates and great support. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	I never had to use support, so I can't answer this. I would hope that it is good though. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Have never needed support, not once. So giving them a 10 for the fact that their product is so good that we've never needed it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	When you want to quickly edit a file, TextPad starts up quickly and has many features over Microsoft Notepad. Visual Studio Code is an alternative in that it is full-featured and will edit text files but is slower at startup. I prefer the macro feature in TextPad due to its simplicity. Incentivized Gary Davis Director Read full review	I have evaluated Notepad++ as an alternative to UltraEdit. In some cases, such as loading time, Notepad++ is a superior product. However, in terms of editing existing macros, and editing very large text files UltraEdit is a much better product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	TextPad is reasonably priced. The pricing/licensing model is fixed and is not subscription-based. Incentivized Gary Davis Director Read full review	Tough to measure. UltraEdit will make users more efficient and quick. The ROI is in the time saved by these programmers. Incentivized Mathieu Gaouette Consultant BI senior/Administrateur - spécialité SAS Read full review
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