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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/sublime-text-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/sublime-text-profile/alternatives/) # Sublime Text User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 1,382 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.6/5 - Customer support: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 4.4/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 956 reviews (69%) - 4 stars: 373 reviews (27%) - 3 stars: 48 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 5 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - I've used it for mainly basic HTML, CSS & Java and the software has supported it perfectly. - The Multi-Edit / Multi-Cursor tool is a Godsend for immediate refactoring or working with data lists. - Blazing fast performance, excellent multiple cursors, and seamless AI plugin integration. ### Most mentioned cons - Furthermore, compared to the current extension market places available with VSCode, using Package Control to manage plugins seems dated and less user-friendly than current systems. - One issue I faced was that some advanced features are locked behind the paid version, so for full functionality you have to purchase it. - I can't save a file in JSONL format, it always saves files in JSON. ## Sublime Text customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 1,382 (page 1). ### Perfect cross platform IDE - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Zachary C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Sublimt text is my goto text editor for basic programming, while it does not have the frills of VS Code and the Storm IDEs it is light weight and super fast, works the same on any platform and is great for web. #### Cons Plugin directory at times is lacking, but this is less of a complaint about the product and just the community as a whole being smaller --- ### Change the way of your coding - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Fazal Rahman T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Program Development - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have a great experience as a starter with sublime however i have used many more IDEs after but sublime was and is awesome and time saving for me. Its pre-defined library helps me to write my code very fast and complete it soon. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the editing permission, even sometime it can happen a code can be mixed by any mean from my own-self or any damaged in my long term works. Sublime is easy for me i don’t need to write all the text of code and style sheet word by word it will define and detect my entry for any possible suggestion which is an ease in my tasks and time saving environment. #### Cons Just i was denied access for my own file once which will put us into question after searching for a way online i figured out to access my data. else i don’t see anything that i would like least about sublime. #### Reasons for choosing Sublime Text I see no alternative product compare to sublime in its own kind. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text Because of the pre-defined and pre-made library it owns as i type my code and suggestion option completes my code then i can bring any changes or write my further code its simple thing but time and effort saving. --- ### Great, Minimal Text Editor! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alexander K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like how minimal the text editor is, as well as the small amount of system resources it uses. #### Cons I've had some issues with the application scaling on high resolution monitors, but aside from that it's worked very well. --- ### Simplicity Meets Power in a Code Editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anthony N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, my experience with Sublime Text has been positive. It has a user-friendly interface, a wide range of features, keyboard shortcuts, high customizability, supports many languages, and allows multiple files and projects to open. However, it requires a license, can be resource-intensive, some advanced features are hard to master, has a cluttered interface, and lacks integration with other software tools #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like using Sublime Text because of its user-friendly interface and wide range of features that make coding and text editing very efficient. The software has a variety of keyboard shortcuts and commands that allow for quick navigation, editing, and manipulation of text. Additionally, the software is highly customizable, with various packages and plugins available to enhance its functionality. The software also supports many programming languages, making it a versatile developer tool. The ability to open multiple files and projects at the same time and easily switch between them is another feature I appreciate. #### Cons One thing I like least about Sublime Text is that it is not free software. While it offers a free trial period, it requires a license to use it permanently. Additionally, the software can be quite resource-intensive, so running on older or less powerful computers may be challenging. While the software is generally user-friendly, some more advanced features can take time and effort to master. Additionally, some users may find the software's interface cluttered and overwhelming. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text I found it to be more powerful compared to Sublime Text. --- ### Blazing Fast and Powerful Text Editor! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rishi G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've been using Sublime Text for over six years, and it's the only text editor that hasn't disappointed me. The best part of using sublime is that it's fast. I don't have to wait for the editor to load. When you fire it up, it's ready to work. Updation of packages and indexing of files on the initial load doesn't slow down the editor or interfere with the functionality. Everything you need in an editor/IDE, sublime already has it. It's been my favorite editor for a long time now. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros There are lots of reasons why I use Sublime Text as my primary text editor - 1. Performance. The editor doesn't lag or crash when I'm working on a large codebase. Switching between multiple tabs or windows doesn't bring any performance issues in the editor. 2. Customization. It's easy to customize and gives complete independence over how I'd like to tweak the whole environment of the editor and set it up according to my needs. 3. UI/UX. I absolutely love the uncluttered interface of Sublime. UX is neat and smooth. The editor feels easy on the eyes. 4. Plugins. The right choice of plugin integration gives you the ability to use STE to its full extent and as a powerful IDE. Custom pane splitting, integrated terminal, executing custom builds, and so on, everything can be added to sublime turning it into a full-fledged IDE. 5. Keybinding. What I like about STE in terms of custom keybinding is that it doesn't overwrite the original keybindings when you set up a new one. In-built and custom keybinding, both can be used interchangeably without any issues. It's helpful in case you forget the newly set ones. #### Cons Deprecated plugin (and plugins for the older versions of STE) availability in the latest version of Sublime doesn't make any sense. They don't work but remain available to install. They're non-functional and slow down/crash the editor. There should be an option to at least filter the plugins (based on the version I'm using) through the package control. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text There were no options to change keybindings, so it became less efficient for writing code. It had poor contrast and a noisy user interface. --- ### Write Between the Lines - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rob H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Sublime is quite simply the best Text Editor that I've used. It's followed me from MacOS to Ubuntu, and with all the language choices that have come along the way... You can even very quickly turn it into a JavaScript IDE competitor with just a handful of plugins #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ignore reading between the line; Sublime's ability to contextually understand which language you are coding in saves you the stress, instead offering you the power to simply write! From the syntax highlighting you'd expect from other major IDEs such as Eclipse, or Visual Studio, alongside their ubiquitous autocomplete, you'll be pleasantly surprised with Sublme (the name of the app is sooo apt!). But here's the sweetest part; Sublime is the developer's best friend.... It's plugin friendly, and plugin rich (heck there are even tutorials about how to write your own Sublime plugin). Everything from turning it into a JavaScript powerhouse, to GIT integration, adding language parsers, even adding 'epic sounds' wen you write 'epic code' (https://github.com/Atbox/CodeChampion) With the fact that you can even integrate compilers with Sublime, it's the world's loveliest text editor (which may as well be an IDE). #### Cons If you want and IDE out of the box, go with VSCode or the likes, but in all fairness, I struggle to find anything that I cannot throw at Sublime Text with any real trouble to integrate... It's the gift that keeps giving. #### Reasons for choosing Sublime Text While Atom may well catch up, Sublime's endless list of plugins make it a hard candidate to beat. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text While Notepad++ was definitely a vast improvement over the standard Windows Notepad, we all grow up.... My first experience in the 90's was writing simple HTML in Notepad, and using Windows, the natural step was from there to Notepad++. The thing is though that once you've delved into the professional coding realm, worked with companies using .Net (and obviously Visual Studio), then continuing into non-compiled scripting languages, then you simply cannot regress back to Notepad ++... You need the big boys toys, the one that'll get the job done quickly, and let you even commit it through GIT in the process. --- ### A customizable IDE for everyday coding - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Louis W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I started using Sublime about 5 years ago. I saw it as an upgrade over notepad/notepad ++. I have enjoyed watching it grow and the features increase. In the last year or two new IDE's have come out. They have massive feature sets, and many are great tools. I have not been able to leave the comfort of Sublime 3. I have attempted to use some of these other massive programs. Only to find them to be a massive bottleneck on some of our older systems/small VM ware instances. I have found it nearly impossible to embrace an alternative as I would not be able to use that alternative in every environment that I work. I am a huge fan of Sublime. I do acknowledge that many new IDE's are making this a highly competitive market. If you need a consistent editing experience. You can literally run Sublime off a thumb drive and carry it everywhere with you! Sublime is the most consistent editor I have used. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like that is lightweight. It barely uses resources. It boots in a flash. It is great on multiple OS's. No matter if I am on OSX/Linux/Windows I can have my familiar editing experience with me. It has extensive plugin options. You can customize the software in a flash using the built-in command-line style extension loader. #### Cons The system for installing extensions is great and easy, but it is not robust on features. You need to do your homework outside of sublime to figure out if it is the right extension for you. You also need to consult these outside websites to even get a good picture of what all extension options are out there. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text I liked the look and feel of the UX as well as the customization. During that period (2015 ish) the new features that were being implemented in Sublime were very exciting. --- ### Sublime Text for over a year - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Rakhi V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It’s a great editor when you want speed, simplicity, and control, and it shines for quick development work or clean text editing. Over time, I outgrew it for more complex workflows, but it’s still one of the smoothest and most dependable editors I’ve used. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is fast and lightweight—especially for quick edits or jumping between files without any lag. The search and multi-cursor editing were also a huge plus, because they made it easy to make repetitive changes quickly without feeling like the tool was getting in the way. #### Cons it can start to feel a bit barebones once you need deeper “IDE-like” features such as built-in debugging or richer project tooling. Also, while packages help, managing plugins and keeping everything configured the way you want can take extra effort compared to more integrated editors. --- ### powerhouse for developers who prioritize speed and efficiency - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ludovic D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Sublime Text remains a powerhouse for developers who prioritize speed and efficiency. The AI plugin ecosystem has breathed new life into it, making code completion and assistance surprisingly good. Perfect for quick edits and power users. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blazing fast performance, excellent multiple cursors, and seamless AI plugin integration. Tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT plugins work flawlessly without slowing down the editor. The lightweight design means AI assistance feels instant and responsive. Good community support. #### Cons Requires manual plugin setup for modern features. While AI plugins work well, they need separate installation and configuration compared to built-in solutions. --- ### Simple and effective IDE if you know what you are doing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shreyahs M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Good IDE, used it for a while before deciding to switch. Works great out of the box, is super lightweight, but no longer as powerful as the competition #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Simple to use and does not need any fancy bells and whistles. Pretty lightweight and has great community support #### Cons A lot of the good features are paid. Not as feature rich as vs code. Requires plugins for a lot of tasks and also has a high learning curve --- ### Best alternative to Visual Studio Code - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lukasz K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Sublime Text is a great IDE for almost every developer - it has a wide range of available plugins and themes, although it's not the best option available in my opinion. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Sublime Text has been developed for many years so it means that it doesn't have any "baby steps" issues and offers a wide range of plugins and themes, which makes it highly customizable for every developer type (as JavaScript developer will install totally different things from e.g. C# one). Its price is fair, and most important - you pay it only once and it's not a subscription-based software. #### Cons After using it for years I've found its development slowed a bit and didn't introduce really any significant upgrades/features. Meanwhile a new competitors has been created (Visual Studio Code), which fit better for my needs and offered more new features that was unavailable in Sublime Text. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text I was looking for something that offers more features and customization than Notepad++ --- ### Sublime Text editor is a great tool that might attract you with addiction - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Samuel H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I began using Sublime when I first began studying web programming many years ago. I must admit that I adore it so much. I appreciate this text editor's software's compatibility. I used Sublime to learn Python, JavaScript, and Ruby. What struck me was that it did a lot of formatting and alignment in addition to highlighting the code's keywords. that really increased my ability to read and troubleshoot codes. Plus, I personally like how it looks against a dark background.As an Oracle DBA now, I continue to love Sublime because it works so well with Java and PL SQL. As you may know, SQL can be incredibly complex and time-consuming to read and understand.something else I love Wonderful is that, you never need to stress over loss of any items except if you erase them deliberately. Everytime I open it, it actually shows me each tab I made and altered. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros it is compatible with TON of computer programming languages. and it helps highlight the key words, reformat the language alignment and make everything look neat and easy readingand it always restores what was last changed #### Cons as a DBA, I work a lot with Java and PLSQL on sublime.with SQL, it highlights a lot of KEY words but sometimes it does not highlight the right ones. but it still does a good job to me. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text I started learning web development and it was required to use sublime. since then I started loving it --- ### Product engineer - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: marc l. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Industrial Automation - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Great lightweight tool with a nice ui and can be used for personal and professional environments #### Cons In order to use its full features. A license is required which can be expensive depending on the use case --- ### Best Code Editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrew H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I used it to write and edit my code quickly and easily #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software has coding elements that support the work done faster #### Cons Even the interface needs an update, it's still speed and performance --- ### Reaper for Code Editors: Race-car fast and buttery smooth - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alexander K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Compared to other products like Visual Studio Code (VS Code) or Nova (by Panic) is the Sublime Text so buttery smooth and rapidly fast. I would say: Sublime Text is to code editors what Reaper is to DAWs (for music-editing). It doesn’t win a beauty contest but functional speed trumps make-up. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It’s super fast, reliable, free to use, and computer resource usage is very low. Also: Even if it crashes or I close it, it retains unsaved changes. It’s language-agnostic. I am able to identify special characters that look like that they "don’t exist" in regular WYSIWYG editors but they do, something like: ‌ #### Cons For my purpose (occasional simple HTML, CSS, JS editing) it works perfectly fine and smooth. There’s nothing that stood in my way. --- ### My Sublime Text Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mohamed A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered high-quality text editor that I used for two years as a web developer #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Sublime Text is a powerful text editor that has many advantages, including its intuitive and easy-to-use interface, syntax highlighting, and fast startup time. It also supports multiple programming languages and has a wide range of customization options. Furthermore, Sublime Text has a powerful API and package manager, which makes it easy to extend its functionality. #### Cons However, Sublime Text does have some disadvantages. It is not open source, which means that users cannot access the source code and modify it to their liking. Additionally, it can be expensive to purchase, and its UI can be difficult to navigate for new users. Finally, it is not compatible with all programming languages --- ### One of the best text-editors out there - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Gonzalo B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. An overall great text-editor, lightweight and easy to use, perfect for developers that want to customize their coding experience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I remember the first time I saw Sublime Text installed in the computer of a fellow developer, the black background blew my mind, the interface was sleek and super minimalistic. It's been five years of that day and I am still using it daily. When I need to compare files, search in files or work on multiple files at the same time Sublime is my way to go, the Go to Definition or Anything feature is also super helpful when dealing with big projects. Sublime Text is a dream came true for fans of tweaking their tools, you can customize almost every single aspect of the editor and with an active theme developing community it's hard to get bored of the appearance of your editor. The selection of plugins is huge and you can extend Sublime text to adapt to your needs, frameworks of choice, syntax highlighting and so on. I love the integration with Emmet. Besides that Sublime is cross-platform and lightweight, you can run in seamlessly in not so powerful machines, Linux, Windows, etc. One thing that has saved my day many times is that Sublime will keep the workspace and unsaved files even if my computer crashed or suddenly restarted, I was relieved to find my work done once I opened Sublime again. #### Cons The package control is still not as nice to use as in another text editors when you install a package the progress of it and the successful installation notice are easy to miss (just a tiny text on the bottom bar). The packages bring another problem as well: many of them have been abandoned, are buggy, outdated and can make the editor crash easily. Sublime is a powerful text-editor where you can run your own projects, for Phytonists it's a great deal but it's not a full IDE and you will need many plugins to extend the editor enough to reach some of the basic features on a full IDE. A toolbar could be of great use for people like me that keeps forgetting keyboard shortcuts. One thing that it's quite annoying is the popup asking you to buy the software, being out there so many open-source editors this little annoyance can lead to switching to another tool. Recently I had to work on an Angular 6 project and to use Typescript on Sublime Text and find the needed packages was time consuming and not that easy. --- ### Sublime Text for Growing Developers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mark Oliver R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospitality - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It has nothing but flowers since using this software, having made the jump from notepad++ to sublime years back. I have been using it ever since and now that develop usingng MVC frameworks such as laravel, installing packages, openign terminals and the existence of plugins makes life much easier. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The ui of sublime text is its most advantageous feature, having the ability to open a project folder and having it shown in a sidepanel keeps development fast, less hassle to navigate through and just makes life easier for developers, having indicators show what file is new and what file is opened or edit is a huge plus. The ui also offers having tabs in different windows where you can view two fiels side by side or 4 files open in a grid is very sweet as honey for me :) #### Cons dark theme to light theme must be just a switch away, especially for those who use it coming from notepad++. #### Reasons for switching to Sublime Text Sublime Text offers more that the past product i used. --- ### Sublime text good for solo devs - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jonathan G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Games - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My experience using sublime text has been great, I have been using it for small solo school projects, working on web base apps. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Sublime text is an extremely good IDE, very easy to understand and navigate through, the first IDE I ever used when I was just getting started in web development. Usually, I would only use sublime text for solo projects and web-based applications, for me personally it is one of the best for that specifically since the IDE has good support and integrations. #### Cons The Cons aren't so much as a Con, I feel that Sublime text is better suited for solo and web development, when making apps such as for an Android environment or having to scale up to a team of developers all using Sublime to manage team changes as such. --- ### Sublime Text - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mining & Metals - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Sublime Text is a fast and easy-to-use text editor, ideal for developers and IT professionals. It is versatile and extensible thanks to its many third-party plugins. While it may lack some advanced features, this does not affect its overall quality as a solid and reliable text editor. I highly recommend Sublime Text for any text editing or software development project. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Sublime Text is a high-quality text editor that I used for two years as a web developer. What I like most about Sublime Text is its speed and ease of use. It is very easy to navigate and manipulate large text files thanks to its ability to open multiple tabs and maintain a buffer of opened files. I also appreciate the syntax highlighting, multiple cursors selection, and advanced search and replace, which have allowed me to work more efficiently. The third-party plugins are also very useful and have added great value to my experience using the editor. #### Cons The only drawback I encountered while using Sublime Text is the lack of some advanced features such as built-in debugging and version control features. Although these features are not essential for basic text editing, they may be necessary for more advanced development tasks. Additionally, there was a learning curve for me when I transitioned from using some other popular text editors to Sublime Text, as some key features were not available or were different in Sublime Text. --- ### sublime text - a well-designed editor for Progammers. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Palash S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience is good and I can use multiple programming languages and sublime text highlights the syntax correctly, making it easy for my clients to read and understand the code to some extent. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros efficiency and speed and cross platform compatibility are the most liked features. #### Cons lack of built- in debugging capabilities and plugin compatibility and maintenance. --- ### Lightweight and multiplatform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nairoby D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is a recommended text editor for developers, but honestly it is very useful for any user, since you can write plain text, when you press a word, it places all the matches (multi selection), you can have a very long text and the right side There is a mini image of the content that you are making and where you are spatially located. It is very light and easy to install, you can add some features through plugins, you have multiple options to differentiate the code: php, sql, css, html, java among others, it has autocomplete what allows to speed up the work, as well as the option for code blocks between keys or labels, when positioned on one, Sublime highlights the closing or vice versa. For the most demanding, you can change the type of letter and the colors to personalize it, it has a great variety of shortcuts that sometimes are not so easy to remember. You can go typing text and if you close the window by mistake, Sublime opens again with the tab and the content that you had, that is, it keeps, in addition it displays on the left side the content that you have opened and it is very easy to locate, since you can have it saved in different directories but Sublime gives you access to them directly. It is multiplatform, we can install it in windows and linux versions without problem. A wonderful feature is that we can work in one window or up to four and go editing simultaneously. #### Cons - It is not free, but the trial version has no time limitation. - The plugins are not so easy to install and locate, you have to do it through Package Control and follow some steps to make it work. --- ### Sublime Text: Is it the best? - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Zandro Justine L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The best IDE I have used so far. This is the only IDE I can work with when I want to fully focus and just code. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros For its money, its one of the best there is. There is a lot of flexibility on the product with the use of package control and it is fairly easy to access. Not to mention, its one of the lightweight IDEs and its fast as well for its size! #### Cons Well, if you are fairly new to tech or are barely using IDEs, it would be hard to work with customizations with sublime. Also, it is fairly slow when loading larger files compared to bigger, more complex IDEs. And if you're the type to be annoyed when dealing with sublime pop-ups, well be prepared, but its accompanied with an easy to access close button so no worries. --- ### Beautiful and flexible code & text editor, but not an IDE - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Sublime sports a beautiful minimalistic user interface, which can be easily personnalized through themes. It is an extremely fast code editor, both in terms of startup time and while running with many files open. It supports all programming and markup languages, from web to C++ to Markdown. Its main strength is its extensibility: plugins can be written in Python to improve or add pretty much any features. There are thousands of plugins providing better support for specific languages, formatting capabilities, etc. It also has built-in support for language-specific and context-aware snippets, which come-in very handy. Navigation between and within source files is extremely efficient using the "command palette", which allows jumping to files, methods, definitions, etc. Fuzzy matching means that file & method names can be typed very partially, while still finding the right thing. Finally, there's recently been the addition of Git and Sublime Merge integration, so that changes are now highlighted and diff can be visualized in place. #### Cons Compared to full-fledged IDEs, or even Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text lacks advanced code intelligence features (e.g. method autocompletion). The autocomplete feature only suggests words that have been written in the current file. I've never found this to be an issue in practice though. --- ### A diverse platform to write codes efficiently - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ayush J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am using sublime from the last 3 years and wrote codes for multiple projects, it perfectly manages large amount of datasets, I was able to complete each one before deadline just because of the features like Multi cursor editing. I love to set up themes and colours and sublime offers me full customization to work with. Overall i am so satisfied with this software. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This platform has to be on top of all text editors. Coding at sublime boosts your productivity to the next level. It offers a lots a keyboard shortcuts which are useful and saves a lots of time. Coding in different colours makes it so easier to debug the program. It offers to save the code with multiple encoding. The search tool works really fast. Add-ons advances it's working to a great extent. #### Cons Since it offers a large number of shortcuts, initially it took me a lot of time to understand them. It is not an IDE compiler, it just offers to write codes. Free version works well, but it always begs to purchase lcience ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/sublime-text-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Sublime Text Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice