G2 Vendor Directory

Text Editor

43

Products

9,509

Total reviews

4.3

Avg. rating

Visual Studio Code by Microsoft leads the Text Editor category with a 4.7 rating from 2,742 reviews. It also has the strongest momentum in the category.

LLM citations

Monthly citations by AI answer engines for the top products in Text Editor.

LLM citations · Text Editor

Source: G2 review data

Key stats

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code

Small Business

Category trends

How the Text Editor market is moving, from G2 review and Grid data.

Which products are most adopted?
1
Visual Studio Code2,740 2
Notepad++2,472 3
Sublime Text1,782 4
UltraEdit1,124 5
Brackets262
Which products climbed the Grid most?
1
GNU Emacs17 2
Kate11 3
Oxygen XML Editor5 4
mousepad4 5
Textmate3
Which products are reviewers switching to?
1
Visual Studio Code145 2
Sublime Text45 3
Notepad++43 4
UltraEdit14 5
Brackets10
Which products do enterprises choose?
1
Notepad++929 2
Visual Studio Code690 3
UltraEdit405 4
Sublime Text394 5
TextPad50
Which products do mid-market buyers choose?
1
Visual Studio Code812 2
Notepad++796 3
Sublime Text609 4
UltraEdit284 5
Brackets52
Which products do small businesses choose?
1
Visual Studio Code1,215 2
Sublime Text771 3
Notepad++735 4
UltraEdit433 5
Brackets162

Fastest growing

Ranked by G2 Momentum score.

1

Visual Studio Code

by Microsoft · 2,742 reviews

4.7
2

Kate

by KDE · 14 reviews

4.3
3

CodePen

by CodePen · 97 reviews

4.6

All products

Ranked by G2 Grid position.

1

Visual Studio Code

by Microsoft · 2,742 reviews

4.7
2

Notepad++

by Notepad++ · 2,472 reviews

4.6
3

Sublime Text

by Sublime HQ · 1,782 reviews

4.5
4

Brackets

by Adobe · 262 reviews

4.4
5

UltraEdit

by Idera, Inc. · 1,124 reviews

4.7

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