# TextMate Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about TextMate Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Application Development products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/234698/TextMate --- # TextMate 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) TextMate ## What is TextMate? TextMate is a powerful and customizable text editor for macOS that supports a wide variety of programming languages and text editing features. Developed as open source software, TextMate allows for multiple carets for making batch edits, easy file searching, integration with version control systems, language-specific settings through scope selectors, writing custom actions, creating reusable snippets, adding bundles for customization, recording macros, and more. ## What is TextMate used for? [Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-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 TextMate?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://macromates.com/&name=TextMate) ## 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. ### TextMate 4.8 (4) VS. [### SAP NetWeaver](https://www.capterra.com/p/65750/SAP-NetWeaver/) [4.5 (54)](https://www.capterra.com/p/65750/SAP-NetWeaver/reviews/) Starting Price Contact vendor Starting Price Contact vendor Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 5.0 (4) Ease Of Use 3.9 (54) Value For Money 5.0 (4) Value For Money 4.3 (38) Customer Service 4.3 (3) Customer Service 4.5 (41) ## TextMate alternatives [Django](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/) [4.6 (18)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/234557/Django/) Highest Rated [Cloudflare Workers](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/) [5.0 (4)](https://www.capterra.com/p/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/#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/234126/Cloudflare-Workers/) [Ansible Tower](https://www.capterra.com/p/149875/Ansible-Tower/) [4.5 (47)](https://www.capterra.com/p/149875/Ansible-Tower/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/149875/Ansible-Tower/) [Aspose.Total](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/) [4.4 (25)](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/reviews/) Starting price $999.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 92% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/154165/Aspose-Total/) ## Pricing Value for money 5.0 (4) ### Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Free trial available Value for money 5.0 (4) 5.0 Based on 4 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.3 (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 4.3 (3) 4.3 Based on 3 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.8 Based on 4 reviews Filter by rating 5(3) 4(1) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent Tei C. Artist Music ### "Perfect freeware text editor for Mac OS" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 29, 2024 It's almost a perfect text editor for me. I have been using it daily while I'm on Mac OS. The great thing is I don't even have to spend a single penny on it! There's no bug or any issue when I'm using it. I recommend this to everyone! Pros \- It is a fully free software. - It is lightweight. - Easy to use. - Good for programming or casual use. - Simple interface. Cons \- OS limitation, only available on Mac OS. - A bit hard to get support (but I doubt you will need it) Switched from [Notepad++](https://www.capterra.com/p/185965/Notepad/) Much better alternative and it is fully free! Alternatives considered [Visual Studio Code](https://www.capterra.com/p/186634/Visual-Studio-Code/) Reasons for choosing TextMate Lightweight and faster launching/loading time. 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. JM Jesse M. Founder Design ### "AN excellent 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 8/10 September 17, 2022 Overall, my experience has been great with TextMate. It's a light, fast editor with great features and a free price tag - hard to beat. The only down side for me, and my team, was the fact we couldn't import TextMate v1 snippets into v2, leaving us with a ton of work to convert the snippets.. instead we decided to migrate to another text editor, that DOES have the ability to convert TextMate v1 snippets. Pros TextMate is a flexible, fast text editor with great features like Multiple Caret editing, Version Control, easy file Diffs and powerful snippets and bundles that make coding fast and easy. Cons Migrating from a previous version of TextMate doesn't allow migration of snippets or bundles created in a previous version! This left our team faced with the daunting task of completely recreating all the bundles and snippets we'd creating over years of using TextMate. Alternatives considered [Sublime Text](https://www.capterra.com/p/179535/Sublime-Text/) Reasons for choosing TextMate TextMate offered all the features we were looking for - a light, fast editor with snippets, file diff options and a variety of language bundles that covered our teams needs. 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. JA Jo Ann R. Owner / Web Designer Internet ### "When you need that extra Text editor on Mac's ... TextMate" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 April 4, 2022 I use it every day. It's my go to when I need to copy a lot of text from a website so I can strip out all the unnecessary formatting that I don't need. As I mentioned, I've tried many others, but they just couldn't do the job as well as TextMate does. Pros This software was the best Text Editor I found that worked well with Mac computers. I tried at least a dozen that "said" they did what I needed, but only this one actually did it. I am a Web Designer and in order to use any text copied from web pages, PDF's, etc. you need to paste it into a raw text editor that strips out the extra formatting that is also in the copied text. TextMate does that for me. Cons It's not perfect. I've found a handful of times that the copied formatting still ends up in the text within TextMate. These are typically in special characters like quotation marks, commas and apostrophes. What's nice though is that you can usually delete them and retype them and it will fill in the generic one that is typically used on websites. Reasons for choosing TextMate Most of them were more "code" editors than "text" editors and were just more than I needed for stripping formatting out of copied text. TextWrangler was closer but again didn't have the features I needed to remove the formatting so Textmate was the obvious choice as it did pretty much all of what I needed. Granted, I'd go back to Notepad++ in a heartbeat if they had a Mac Version, but so far TextMate has done pretty good for me. 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. Martin P. RTE Internet ### "Best editor.... in 2017 :D" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 October 8, 2021 Pros I used this editor for all development for many years. It was a great companion back in 2017. But since the rapid growth of popularity of VS Code the TextMate is becoming obsolete Cons Does not provide as many functions and plugins as VS 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. ## 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. 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. 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