UltraEdit The world’s #1 text editor

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Our network of 2M+ power users all agree—UltraEdit is the most flexible, powerful, and secure text editor out there. Try it for free to see what you’ve been missing.

Developer / programmer

Unsurpassed power, performance, startup, & file load
Customizable, configurable, beautiful themes
OS integration (command line, shell extension)
Blazing fast find / replace and find in files / replace in files
Fully integrated file compare, instant diff operations

Corporate / enterprise

Secure, trusted, proven, dependable, stable
Digitally signed installers and libraries
Easy / silent deployment with MSI installers
Professional support and in-house call center
Multi-platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux

The world’s
best text editor.

Native 64-bit, huge file handling, CNET ★★★★★ ranking, the list goes on.

UltraCompare Pro
for free.

That’s right – purchases of UE include a key for UC Pro at no additional cost. Learn more.

Win/Mac/Linux
versions for both.

You get the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of UltraEdit and UltraCompare.

3 for 1
licensing.

Your personal license is good for up to 3 machines on any combination of platforms.

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Themes

Choose one of our core themes or try our beautiful user-contributed themes to get UltraEdit looking exactly how you’d like it to. Take it a step further by modifying your theme or creating a new one from scratch, then contribute it back for the rest of our users to enjoy.

Multi-caret/multi-select

UltraEdit features the most powerful and intuitive multi-caret editing and multi-selection capabilites in the business. Once your cursors or selections are where you want them to be, you can copy, cut, paste, select and delete just the same as you normally would.

HTML / Markdown live preview

Want to see your rendered HTML or Markdown changes on the fly, as you edit them? UltraEdit’s live preview makes this possible. Double-click an element in the preview to jump to its definition in source. And with Github Flavored Markdown (GFM) code highlighting and compatibility, UltraEdit is the only editor you’ll need for your repos.

Search

If it can be searched for, UltraEdit will find it. But search is almost the wrong word. With the power to search with regular expressions, search across files, find a needle in a 4GB haystack, or just quickly find a word you’re looking for, this isn’t search. This is omniscience.

Column Mode

When editing horizontally just isn’t quite good enough, Column Mode is there for you. Use Column Mode to intuitively edit along the Y axis anywhere in your document. It’s just one of the many powerful ways UltraEdit helps you edit tabular data or code files.

Integrated FTP, SSH & Telnet

Whether you need to make quick edits to a file on a server or upload a massive codebase, UltraEdit’s integrated FTP capabilities and SSH/Telnet make it easy to work with remote files and interact with servers from a single, powerful application.

Customizable UI

Our menu system has been rebuilt from the ground up to make it even more customizable than ever. Our deeply customizable new menu can be laid out however you’d like. Set yourself up with Ribbon mode for a familiar look and feel. Or maybe you prefer the simple toolbar with only your most commonly needed features. The possibilities are endless.

Edit large files

UltraEdit is built to edit large files that cause other text editors to crash. People who deal with databases and large log files absolutely love our product for this very reason.

4k UHD support

UltraEdit looks great on Retina and other ultra high-definition displays. If you haven’t upgraded yet, no need to worry. We’ll be ready for you when you do.

Multi-platform

UltraEdit is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Even if you’ve got one of those distros nobody’s heard of, there’s a good chance we may be able to help you.

3 for 1 licenses

Your personal UltraEdit license is good for up to 3 machines on any combination of platforms. Want to run on two Macs and a Windows box? You’re all set!

Tony P.

Hello, I've been using UltraEdit for over 10 years. I believe it's the best text editor on the market today. For me, it really helped with viewing and parsing very large text files; greater than 4 GB. You won't be disappointed.

Clint D.

I've been using UltraEdit and UltraCompare for over 10 years and can say with certainty that this suite is the best on the market. Prior to discovering IDM I too wandered the wasteland of all the other "Who Done It" editors. Clearly the people at IDM are themselves coders and know what we need. No other editor can easily handle all of large files, binary files, collections of files, syntax encoding, file compare, column or line mode editing, macros, and templates. And those are just the features I use; there're lots more.

What can you use UltraEdit for...

Accolades

UltraEdit is an award-winning text editor. CNET/Download.com says about UltraEdit: “With its clear layout and powerful project and work-space features, it can handle complex and sophisticated software-development projects. But despite its vast range of features, UltraEdit never feels overwhelming. It’s flexible and easy to customize, and the polished user interface provides easy access to the most important options…”

Key features

Easily open and edit large files – 4 GB and beyond!
Multi-caret editing and multi-select
Column (block) mode editing
Powerful search: Find & replace in files, regular expressions, inverse search, etc.
File compare
Code syntax highlighting for nearly any programming language
Code folding and hierarchical function listing
Beautify and reformat source code
Powerful XML handling: XML tree view, reformatting, validation, etc.
Auto-closing XML/HTML tags
Smart templates – automatic intelligent code completion
Editor themes – skin the entire app
Powerful and configurable tools