# Bluefish Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Bluefish Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Website Builder products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/175980/Bluefish --- # Bluefish Software Review 2026: Features, Reviews, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on August 24, 2025 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Bluefish ## What is Bluefish? Bluefish is an open-source code editor targeted towards programmers and web developers. It supports many programming and markup languages and includes features like syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion, and more to help developers be more productive. ## What is Bluefish used for? [Website Builder](https://www.capterra.com/website-builder-software/) Overall rating Based on 4 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Bluefish?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://bluefish.openoffice.nl&name=Bluefish) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Bluefish 4.3 (4) VS. [### Network Solutions Website Builder](https://www.capterra.com/p/234398/Network-Solutions-Website-Builder/) [2.3 (6)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234398/Network-Solutions-Website-Builder/#reviews) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.3 (4) Ease Of Use 2.5 (6) Value For Money 3.7 (3) Value For Money 1.7 (6) Customer Service 3.7 (3) Customer Service 1.8 (6) ## Bluefish alternatives Highest Rated [Bootstrap Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/77423/Bootstrap-Studio/) [5.0 (3)](https://www.capterra.com/p/77423/Bootstrap-Studio/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/77423/Bootstrap-Studio/) [Sazular](https://www.capterra.com/p/10021494/Sazular/) [4.0 (1)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10021494/Sazular/#reviews) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/10021494/Sazular/) [Strikingly](https://www.capterra.com/p/235563/Strikingly/) [4.3 (13)](https://www.capterra.com/p/235563/Strikingly/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 85% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/235563/Strikingly/) [uCoz Content Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/82808/uCoz-Content-Management/) [3.7 (45)](https://www.capterra.com/p/82808/uCoz-Content-Management/reviews/) Starting price $2.99 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 62% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/82808/uCoz-Content-Management/) ## Pricing Value for money 3.7 (3) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial not available Value for money 3.7 (3) 3.7 Based on 3 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 3.7 (3) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 3.7 (3) 3.7 Based on 3 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.3 Based on 4 reviews Filter by rating 5(2) 4(1) 3(1) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent AC Anil C. Marketing Executive Marketing and Advertising ### "Handy Editor for Development" 3.0 Overall Rating 3.0 3.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 June 20, 2022 I used Bluefish for my website editoring to understand HTML codes, it is handy and fast but it does not offer good valuable features. Pros Bluefish is handy tool for editoring your code and analyze them for your code editing system. It is easy to use while programming your code and understand your code. Cons Bluefish is handy tool but it does not offer important feature, you have to use other kind of platforms to code your programme in better way. Switched from [Adobe Dreamweaver](https://www.capterra.com/p/233245/Adobe-Dreamweaver/) Adobe Dreamweaver has more feature while you are programming your code. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AN Abigail N. Pit Clerk Gambling & Casinos ### "Intuitive and powerful text editor" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 December 14, 2019 I am not a professional programmer but I only write for fun (as a hobby). I notice that I could write faster using this product and hence, tend to create more content. Pros How east it is to learn howbto use this product is what I like most. I did not fiddle with the default settings as it is perfectly fine for me. Cons I really can't say any cons but maybe except that proprietary advanced text editors are probably more powerful than this. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Andrey R. Marketing Business Development Manager Marketing and Advertising ### "A starter free tool for HTML editing" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 November 29, 2019 I use this software to edit my texts because it has so many tools. These tools are advanced and simple to use. Pros My experience with Bluefish is that the tool is easy to work with it, my 5 years old computer was fine so I suppose the program don't need high hardware requirements. Cons Currently I don't dislike anything about this product because it has the all functionality I was looking for. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Vernessa T. Freelance Writer Information Technology and Services ### "Bluefish Text Editor: Not Just for Programmers, It Helps Me Write Better" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 6/10 August 17, 2018 One very important reason I use a text editor is to help me write. Although it has tons of features for a text editor, the buttons, menus and dialogs stay out of the way and provide a distraction-free place to put down the words. Bluefish remains one of my favorite go-to editors (and has been since I discovered it 10+ years ago). In fact, I wrote this review using it! I use it on both Windows and Linux platforms and it works about the same on both. Pros I've used a lot of text editors and website builders. Bluefish compares favorably with those I consider the best. Although it touts itself as being "for experienced web designers and programmers," your experience level doesn't matter that much. What matters is how you plan to use it. I'm not a programmer, CSS expert or a design geek. I'm more of a writer and web technology consultant so my use of Bluefish is as an extension to my article writing tools and to do super simple edits to style sheets and web pages. What I like most about Bluefish as a text editor is it gives me the option of opening several text documents all at once in different tabs. I can also take those multiple files and group them together in a "project." That becomes a big deal when I need to work on these same files again in the future -- I can just select that project and Bluefish will open all the files at the same time in their own tab. Even though I use the web design features less than the pure text editing features, I'm glad Bluefish provides an entire menu of options that make web design life easier. For example, I've used features from the lists, tables, forms, and CSS dialogs. Cons On occasion, Bluefish chokes when I have too many text files open (think in excess of 10), which is kind of understandable. And it can choke if the file has in excess of 50k lines. The developers ought to pay attention to these issues because many programs have tens of thousands of lines of code and a project is likely to have more than 10 files open at one time. (That's the beauty of having tabs, afterall.) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. ## Top-rated software of 2026 ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox. 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