Customize your menu system. From a full ribbon to a classic and compact toolbar. You can also add/remove specific buttons from the menu.
Quickly select and edit data quickly with multi-caret editing, column mode and multi select.
Find and replace lines in entire files, projects, and directories. Use filters such as regex, column-based search, line filters, and more…
Use an integrated FTP/SSH/Telnet client inside UltraEdit. Works with macros, scripting, and templates for quick development.
UE comes with UC Pro diff tool. It allows 2 & 3-way file compare/merge. Works for text, folders, spreadsheets, Git repositories, and even hex files. Learn More.
If you need a text editor, you need UltraEdit.
UltraEdit is the most flexible, powerful, and secure text editor. Download a free, full-feature trial to see why. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
What can you use UltraEdit for
Text/Code Editing
UltraEdit is a powerful disk-based text editor, programmer’s editor, and hex editor
Web Development
UltraEdit streamlines web development by letting you edit and navigate HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and more—with tools for switching views and validating code.
System Administrator
UltraEdit lets system admins quickly search, edit, and format even very large or structured text files.
File Compare
Use a powerful cross-platform tool for comparing and syncing text, files, and folders
What’s New
UE 2025.1 idelivers more context-aware AI assistance, updated SFTP protocols, and a brand-new seamless interface language configuration option.
Every UltraEdit license comes with
You get the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of UltraEdit and UltraCompare.
Includes free UltraCompare Pro diff tool.
Your personal license can be used on up to 3 different machines.
Do more with an extensive list of powerful features and functionalities
Dynamic code auto-completion with IntelliTips
Intellitips provides code and context-aware auto-complete suggestions. This offers class members, functional tips, and intuitive prompts for most modern programming languages. The level of automation can be configured.
Multi-caret/multi-select
One of the most powerful and intuitive multi-caret editing and multi-selection capabilities 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
Watch your HTML or Markdown pages rendered in real time with live preview—even as you edit them. Also comes with Github Flavored Markdown (GFM) code highlighting and compatibility.Double-click an element in the preview to jump to its definition in source.
Search
UltraEdit’s omniscient search can find files across folders and directories even on files as large as 4GB. Use various filters such as regular expressions to fine tune search
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
The user interface has been built with customizability in mind.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.
Themes
Themes allow users to configure UI systems, menu layouts, and colors. Choose from our core themes or from our user-contributed submissions to get UltraEdit exactly how you like it. Feel free to modify it too.
Other 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
- File and data sorting
- Integrated FTP client (supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS)
- Integrated SSH/telnet client
- Filtered spell checker
- Unicode/UTF-8 support
- Split/duplicate window editing
- Hex editing
- Macros and scripts for automated editing
- CSV data reformatting
- Log file polling
- File encryption and decryption
- Integrated Ctags (symbols listing)
- Base64 encode/decode
- Project support
- Robust bookmarking
- Hundreds more features listed here