BBEdit Information Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

16 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for BBEdit are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Efficient Multi-File Search and Replace: Several users have praised BBEdit for its powerful multi-file search and replace features, which are comparable to those found in UNIX command-line tools. This indicates that the software is highly capable and efficient when handling complex tasks.

Beneficial Source Control and Compiler Integration: Reviewers have mentioned that BBEdit offers source control and compiler integration, making it a valuable tool for software developers. This feature caters to the specific needs of this user group, enhancing their workflow efficiency.

Convenient Scripting and Macro Features: Users appreciate the scripting and macro capabilities offered by BBEdit, as they help streamline repetitive tasks. By providing automation capabilities, the software allows users to save time and increase productivity.

BBEdit Reviews

2 Reviews

InformationInternet1Publishing1

BBEdit zaps the gremlims!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 5, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BBEdit as much as possible for all our text editing because it does it much better than the standard default text editors that come pre-installed on PCs and Macs. Even after a couple of years of constant use, we are still learning the full functionality. That doesn't mean it is difficult, no, it just means it is comprehensive and worth every penny.

Pros

I love the SORT functionality of BBEdit
The ease of use makes it a superior product to every text editor out there.
BBEdit handles text like a pro, and like all text, editors should.

Cons

BBEdit is hard to learn
BBEdit is so full of functionality that it needs a better onboarding system.
It is fast and efficient at what it does.

Likelihood to Recommend

Anywhere you have text, you need BBEdit. It handles complex text just as easily as simple text. It has an excellent search and replace functionality. Superb sorting, and it is excellent fast removal of gremlins. They call it Zap Gremlins on the menu, and it is one I use a lot in my daily work.

Kevin O'Grady

Founder in Customer Service at The World of Empowerment Organization (Publishing, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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BBEdit: Three Decades of Blistering Speed

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our team is roughly 75% software developers; even strategists and architects need to be savvy enough to dip into the source code on occasion. Although full-fledged IDEs are common on the team, BBEdit is a popular swiss army knife that proves its worth as a code editor and a general-purpose text editing tool. When it comes time to process raw data files before they're imported into a database, BBEdit and its fast, scriptable text manipulation features can shave off days of troubleshooting and tool-tweaking.

Pros

Multi-file search and replace features that rival the most powerful UNIX command-line tools.
Source control and compiler integration for software developers.
Scripting and macro features that speed repetitive work.

Cons

It integrates with browsers for HTML preview, but it's a shame it can't do the same for markdown files.

Likelihood to Recommend

BBEdit was born in the memory-starved days of the early 90s when monitors were black and white and some computers still shipped with a megabyte of RAM. Feature-rich IDEs like Komodo, WebStorm, and even VisualStudio IDE can bring more advanced features like debugger integration and automatic refactoring, but none can rival BBEdit's raw speed. Often, I'll launch BBEdit, open a multi-megabyte codebase, searched for the relevant function calls, and fixed a bug before the "full-featured" alternatives have even finished indexing the same code.

For anyone who works with large data files (tab or comma-separated data, JSON or XML, etc), BBEdit excels at the ugly work of scrubbing and formatting data before it's fed into an automated import or migration process. It puts a clean interface on top of powerful GREP tools, including the ability to save and recall common patterns; it lets me select "columns" of data in raw text files and manipulate them like a spreadsheet; it can call out to shell scripts and command-line utilities to augment its own built-in scripting and automation tools; it has canned tools for managing capitalization, line prefixes and suffixes, stripping and mapping high ASCII characters, removing Unicode "junk" characters, and more. And that's just scratching the surface.

Jeff Eaton

Senior Digital Strategist in Professional Services at Lullabot (Internet, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

27 years of experience

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BBEdit: Three Decades of Blistering Speed

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Multi-file search and replace features that rival the most powerful UNIX command-line tools.
Source control and compiler integration for software developers.
Scripting and macro features that speed repetitive work.

Cons

It integrates with browsers for HTML preview, but it's a shame it can't do the same for markdown files.

Likelihood to Recommend

Jeff Eaton

Senior Digital Strategist in Professional Services at Lullabot (Internet, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

27 years of experience

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