EditPad Pro Testimonials—What The People Say

Jürgen Lüthje

“Many, many thanks for this great editor! This is what I have been looking for. EditPad Pro 7 is better than any other editor that I have used so far (including UltraEdit and many others). EditPad Pro 7 is so powerful, well organized, versatile, flexible, reliable, beautiful and made with much thoughts, care and love for each detail! Something like this is rather rare these days. And EditPad Pro enables me to work much more efficiently than before! So thank you very much again for this power editing tool!”

9 October 2017, Germany—2 years later upon release of EditPad Pro 8:

“EditPad Pro 8 is a great Christmas surprise! :-) It contains so many improvements... very impressive. You made a very good product even better. Congratulations and many thanks! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!”

26 December 2019, Germany

Roger Stewart

“Thank you for your support. EditPad Pro is the best text editor I have ever used. I recently had our office purchase 5 copies to be used for our day to day responsibilities of working with big data.”

19 September 2018, Virginia, USA

Antony Roullier

“Just thought I’d share…”

“As I booted up EditPad Pro this morning, I found myself saying… ‘I love EditPad’.”

“Fact: Yes… I am a geek, and very proud of it too!”

“Thank you for creating a GREAT app!”

1 August 2018, United Kingdom

Mark J. Hammer

“EditPad Pro is easily the best text/code editor I have used in my 30+ year career. It is thoughtfully designed and reasonably priced.”

25 June 2018, Kansas, USA

Graeme Geldenhuys

“EditPad is one of very few text editors that can correctly handle line ending styles other that the common three (CR, LF, CRLF). So congratulation to you for adding yet another feature to EditPad that the competition doesn’t have. :)”

29 January 2018, United Kingdom

Hugo Dahl

“Of the many things that EditPad Pro does extremely well, which have been worth the price for many several times over, is the incredible speed and responsiveness opening and operating on large files (hundreds of MBs, some in the GBs), and HEX view (hello large binary files). I have yet to find any other editor out there which can come anywhere near close to EPP.”

“So thanks, Jan, and Just Great Software. I’ve definitely gotten immense value from the product, specially in relation to the price I paid!”

26 September 2017, Texas, USA

Mike Mitchell

“Thanks! I knew there were reasons I love EditPad Pro. Peer pressure forced me to try Notepad++ for a while—but my loss of productivity vis a vis EditPad Pro was too great. Keep up the great work.”

21 August 2017, British Columbia, Canada

Mark Venn

“I have been so happy with your program that I have always told people about it if they ask if I know of a text editor. I am using it at the moment for working with json files over 4GB in size, I don’t know of any other program that can do this! Well done.”

26 May 2017, United Kingdom

John Chesebro

“I have only a handful of essential, excellent, and reliable programs on my computer. EditPad Pro is one of them. I could not function without it, or at least I don’t want to consider the possibility.”

26 February 2017, Wisconsin, USA

Walter Pelowski

“I’ve been using EditPad Pro for over a decade and I love it. It’s my general, all-purpose, go-to editor. The comprehensive regular expressions support and rectangular selections capabilities alone, have saved me countless hours of work. It’s one of the first tools I install when moving to a new machine.”

22 August 2016, Michigan, USA

Chase Baer

“Hi… been using EditPad Pro for awhile now and have LOVED it! My primary interest was in using it for regex… you guys definitely know how to lead the field.”

“Just recently started exploring some of it’s deeper features and finer nuances. I’m amazed at the software’s versatility.”

2 March 2016, Alberta, Canada

Chris Thomson

“I purchased Edit Pad Pro a few weeks ago and I am still finding new and useful features that make the product outstanding. I recently contacted you about some syntax coloring questions regarding echo statements in batch files. I now have that set exactly as I like (something I’ve never been able to do with other editors including much more expensive ones like SlickEdit).”

19 October 2015, Florida, USA

Leo Atwood

“I have used Editpad since I think version 3.0, always found it to be ‘Just Great’. I use Editpad Pro extensively at my work and at home. I find it indispensable when I need to clean up data and prepare it for spreadsheet use and hundreds of other work related tasks. It has saved me several hundred hours of work over my 13 years here, just using the remove white space feature! I also have AceText and am just scratching the surface of what I know it can do.”

“At my work, IT has been tightening down workstation inexorably. With my new workstation, and extensive UAC, [I could no longer run] Editpad and dozens of specific little utilities like file renamers, duplicate file finders, and other utilities. I was so pleasantly surprised when I dug into the extensive documentation and found that it was possible to make portable install direct from the licensed Editpad setup file. I tried and it was accepted (by the company’s restrictions. Thank you for a good product, well-documented and well supported.”

3 December 2014, Saudi Arabia

Bill Horger

“I have the latest version of EditPad Pro, and wanted to thank you for such a versatile product.”

“1. I needed to edit a large number of files as I transitioned to a new compiler, and was able to use the search/replace feature across multiple files to great advantage! This is awesome!”

“2. One of the binary data files I frequently use was ‘damaged’. I was able to open it and delete the trailing, bogus information, allowing the software to run successfully. Again, totally awesome!”

“So, thanks for saving me hours of effort in editing and providing a nifty way yo do some really nit-picking editing.”

19 October 2014, Colorado USA

Paul Nystrom

“I have used RegExBuddy and EditPad Pro for years. Yes, there have been occasional bugs. Jan (and the user community) have always been very responsive and helpful.”

“What I find, much more often, is that I am amazed at the power and flexibility of these tools. Jan has done a fantastic job of anticipating my needs and building those features before I need them.”

“I use a wide variety of tools—both purchased and open-source. Jan had provided the best support of any of them and I really appreciate the ‘one person’s design’ of the tools.”

1 May 2014, California, USA

Ian Thurston

“I find new things to love about this product daily. I just rigged WinSCCP to use EditPad Pro as its default editor, and I am now hot-editing remote files on a Linux box with Editpad Pro. Thanks for a great product.”

23 December 2013, Ontario, Canada

David Bartlett

“I am extremely happy [with EditPad Pro]. I am a programmer myself and I would say this is a masterpiece. Also to Jan, I want to thank you for the customer support which is amazing. Just how you find the time to respond personally—and quickly—to all the stuff on the forum is incredible. Kudos! keep up the good work.”

28 July 2013, United Kingdom

Robert Gusnowski

“As your name states, you develop great software. When EditPad 8 comes out, I will be upgrading again. Too few IT people today have no idea as to what a good editor can do. Other than email, yours is the second most important application I use on a daily basis.”

20 March 2013, Saskatchewan, Canada

John R. Thompson

“Thanks for a great product. I have been using Editpad as my main source code and general note taking editor (as well as regexbuddy for regex development) for 5 or more years now. I’m a bioinformaticist and routinely work with large GB size files. I really like the filetype specific settings that let me customize behavior for certain file types.”

8 July 2013, New Jersey, USA

John Lees

“Brilliant!”

“I must admit I am very impressed with your editor and even more impressed with the promptness your after sales service.”

“I am a very satisfied customer.”

5 November 2004—years later:

“I must say, there are very few software vendors offering your level of customer support and I can’t think of any who seriously treat customer support as a value add to their product. I now have a portable copy of EditPad Pro and when work colleagues tell me they can’t open/edit something I can now just plug in my USB stick to and show them what a good product it is, which is clearly good sales PR for you. In fact I’ve even had vendors tell me I had to purchase another license to have a portable version—they just don’t get it and needless to say I haven’t bothered renewing my subscription.”

10 March 2009, Australia—years later still:

“I love EditPad, it is such a capable tool. It saves me huge amounts of time and enables tasks that just wouldn’t be practical with a standard text editor. It has paid for itself many times over and the personalized support I get is fantastic.”

31 January 2013, Australia

Edward Popko

“It took me some time to get used to the rich interface but once I could navigate around, I found EditPad Pro to be the best, by far, editor I have ever used. It is simple amazing what you can do with it. And its complete support for regex is a huge help too in addition to recognizing common types of files like HTML, Java, PHP etc. Hats off to the cooks! Wonderful editor!”

19 October 2012, New York, USA

Anthony Wayne

“I am a long time user of Notepad++ and was skeptical that any text editor should cost money. So I first tried out the lite version. Well, I was very happy with what it had to offer. I have my own website built with Drupal, but I often have changes to to themes and layout I want to make. I am NO developer that’s for sure, so I need all the features I can get to sort through and make sense of the code I’m seeing. I was so impressed with how the lite version worked that I went and got the Pro version. It was worth every cent! Sometimes I’d literally spend hours trying to change one little tiny thing on my site that bugged me, but now I can find what I need to quickly and easily. Thanks EditPad!”

23 August 2012

Michael Robb

“Let me just say that I’ve been enjoying my experience with EditPad thus far. I’ve been using various Scintilla-based editors for a while but none of them have fused together all the features I care about as well as this editor has.”

1 June 2012, Alberta, Canada

Wes Savage

“I wish to say that I am very impressed by your support. I have never ever seen support like it. You’re fast, friendly and very helpful.”

“I develop software and I have to admit that I build most all of my tools simply because I can do it better than the software that is out there. The other reason I create my own is because support is either non-existent or its the ‘wait in line’ kind. Leave a message after you spend hours looking through their support options pages full of answers to read and then just maybe you will find that one button that is well hidden to send them a letter and then wait for their reply which usually is the wrong answer because the idiot at the other end does not fully understand. It can go on endlessly.”

“Your support is so fast and so accurate it is amazing.”

16 April 2012, Philippines

Kevin Sommers

“Since upgrading to EditPad Pro 7, at least once week I am hit with an ‘Oh WOW!’ moment. Today it was my re-discovery of backups and file history. I know they were available before, I just had not really used them.”

“The use of Milestones and backups is exactly the feature I did not know I needed! Jan, your attention to detail continually amazes me, and I want to sincerely thank you for your dedication to making EditPad Pro an absolutely outstanding product!”

8 September 2011, Canada

Don Beaton

“Thanks for the effort you put into the upgrade of EditPad Pro from v6 to v7. The new version is polished and intuitive, and is a pleasure to use. I’d recommend the upgrade to all v6 users (and to users of other text editors).”

27 May 2011, California, USA

Karel Behounek

“Thank you for your continuous effort. I have already noticed some great new features like replacing Unicode with entities and similar stuff. I need this kind functionality quite often and I am happy to have it integrated in my text editor.”

24 May 2011, Czech Republic

Christian Kranz

“I’ve been using Editpad Pro for several months now and from today I updated to EditPad Pro 7. And I really have to say thank you. Thank you for this more than great piece of software. It saved my life more than once and speeds up daily work as a programmer so that I can save time for the really important things. Its intuitive and contains all the features I need, especially the new replacement keywords are something I wish I would have had in EditPad 6. EditPad Pro is an essential part of my virtual life!”

17 May 2011, Germany

Kerry S. Martin

“EditPad Pro is a very high quality, easy to use, and useful text editor. I have been using this editor for several years now and have not had a single complaint. Thank you for creating such a great product.”

18 March 2011, Iowa, USA

Alex Douglas

“I have no problems with Edit Pad Pro. I have been using it for years. I am grateful for all the free updates you give to keep the program running in top form. I just want to say thank you for a great product.”

27 February 2011, Texas, USA

Chris Leonard

“In case you’re having a bad day, let me say that EditPad Pro just simply rocks. I can’t believe the trouble I have getting my colleagues to learn enough basic regex to become proficient at using it. When they see me use it, they are always impressed (frequently if they see me turn a pile of text into a well-formatted batch of Transact-SQL commands, what I hear over my shoulder is, and I quote, ‘Wow!’). I am trying to evangelize your product, because I just cringe watching people waste their day searching through text. It’s like watching a Neanderthal try to plan a trip to the moon compared with using the regex features of EditPad Pro. Thanks a lot for developing this product. I can’t imagine how much time it has saved me at work.”

8 January 2011, Iowa, USA

Ed Grossheim

“Thanks for listening [to my suggestions]. I would like to emphasize how much I enjoy using EditPad Pro. It has been such a pleasure, and I looked hard at many editors. To me it is a real programmer’s program editor (one who compiles in different compilers, and scripts in many languages).”

16 August 2010, Illinois, USA

David Mawdsley

“I’ve used EditPad and AceText for nearly 6 years and this is the first time I have had to ask for support. I’ve always thought that the products were superb but now I can also say that the support is first class.”

27 June 2010, United Kingdom

Bill Agnor

“I have been using EditPad Pro for about a month and keep finding new and outstanding features. I have used many different editors starting with writing code on micro controllers in the 1970’s and 1980’s, C in the 1980’s, and VHDL in the 1990. I have used cheap editors and very expensive editors and so far EditPad Pro is proving to be a very outstanding editor with all the right features. You have really done a remarkable design effort on this tool and I sure commend you for the time and effort you put into the design. Thank you for such a nice tool.”

20 May 2010, North Carolina, USA

Ulrich Weber

“I’ve been testing EditPad Pro for some three weeks now and am totally hooked. As I use RegEx very frequently to get my work done I can say that I never before experienced such a fine, complete, fast and reliable RegEx engine included in any editor for Windows, neither in commercial nor in freeware versions. The ability to deal with huge files is also very important for me - EditPad Pro was the first one able to open a 1.5 GiB file without exploding my RAM or totally screwing up the file … amazing, that’s how editing should work.”

12 November 2009, Germany

Jonas M. Hunziker

“I basically just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy using EditPad Pro and how much it has made my everyday handling of text and script files easier! Before EditPad Pro, I never lost much thought on RegExp but the awesome power they pack, combined with EditPad’s ‘Search & Replace’ feature have helped me save time so many times, I lost count! And I probably haven’t even discovered half of the features yet. So just a quick ‘Thank You!’ for a great product! I am so glad I licensed a copy!”

5 October 2009, Kentucky, USA

Wayne Wheal

“I would like to thank you for an excellent editor that I use every day for one reason or other, whether it is a tiny note or editing a file that has 100k + lines. I am a software developer myself and when it comes to features and ease of use there is nothing else I would rather use.”

15 July 2009, South Africa

Bryan Felsher

“This is such a NEAT editor, as it has eliminated the need for me to have 4 different editors for each language I use. I tried some of the free editors like PSPad among many others, but they were all very difficult to set-up without learning their individual FIL’s or could only be set-up for one language at a time.”

“Well worth the $50.00 I spent on it. Plus, I can export it to a USB drive and use it on any computer!”

20 May 2009, California, USA

Elijah Taylor

“Just purchased EditPad Pro and RegExBuddy after using them both for years at work. I’ve been laid off and am now venturing off on my own, so it was a no-brainer to pick up both of these great products to help me!”

“Thanks for making great software.”

17 April 2009, North Carolina, USA

Frederick Bazley

“I have been using EditPad Pro 6 for some time now and am amazed at the job it does for me. Your latest update of March 10th is another fine example of the excellent work your people do. Best investment I ever made on any software, bar none. Keep up the good work and thanks.”

17 March 2009, Indiana, USA

Sue James

“Although I don’t use your other programs, not being a programmer, EditPad Pro has been an absolute godsend for text and html editing. In fact I only put it through another intensive session this morning, after updating our website and needing to replace one URL with another on most of the 200+ pages of our site. :-) I’ve used EditPad Pro for a number of years now, and recommended it to anyone looking for a great text or html editor. So thank you for all your work and for a terrific program!”

24 December 2008, Australia

Toby Allen

“Brilliant! I have been using your RegexBuddy for a while now, and was on the lookout for a new text editor—TextPad sadly no longer being up to the job. I decided to give EditPad Pro a go and so far I am delighted. I have stumbled upon features that I love.”

“1. I have been able to run a tool that can take some selected text and return and replace the selected text. With this I now have an inline XML formatter, which is essential for what I do.”

“2. I just stumbled upon your ‘Your file has changed would you like to see a comparison of the files’ feature—this is really cool.”

“3. Its fast”

30 October 2008, Ireland

Michael Brenden

“Not a day goes by while I’m using EditPad Pro that I don’t suddenly realize all over again how excellent it really is. Your good work makes my days appreciably happier, easier and technically cooler. Thanks again.”

20 June 2008, Maryland, USA

Tim Pietzcker

“I just wanted to let you know that I’m very happy to have bought EditPadPro. I have been an UltraEdit user for a few years now, and while UltraEdit is undoubtedly a very good editor, I found it lacking in two areas that I care about, namely Python programming support and regular expressions. Having used RegexBuddy for quite a while, I probably should have thought of making the switch earlier, but I guess it’s better late than never. I only started using EditPad Pro yesterday, and already I’m hooked.”

“Your backup concept using a hidden history is great! Sequential backups never worked the way I expected them to in UltraEdit, so now I feel a lot safer. And the idea with milestones is wonderful!”

“There are many other things I admire, most of all the care and thought that went into the support for all those programming languages. And of course the genius to have everything regex-based. UltraEdit had introduced ‘Perl compatible regular expressions’ two major versions ago, but their implementation was somewhat inconsistent, and a few annoying bugs still haven’t been fixed. So I guess from having used RegexBuddy I was a little spoiled by the JGsoft engine, so I always used to think ‘What if I had an editor that would actually support this regex?’—I keep wondering why it took me so long…”

13 April 2008, Germany

Simon Wadsworth

“I’m emailing just to say ‘thank you!’ and congratulate you on these superb products EditPad Pro and PowerGREP.”

“I’ve been using other tools for these tasks for years now and none of them has come close to being as feature rich as yours. Feature rich, but not feature bloat. Everything seems to be there for a clear purpose and is very well thought out. It isn’t often these days that one comes across software that is so impressively focused on its tasks.”

“In the couple of days I’ve been using EditPad it has already saved me hours with the built-in FTP support. Editing my websites has never been so easy.”

2 April 2008, United Kingdom

Andre von Rekowski

“You are the best! In my 7 years as developer I have tried EVERY other major editor and this is by far the best, THANK YOU for your dedication to a great product! I wanted to thank you—for the hours of work you save me every day — and looked at your site—there I noticed that I no longer had the most recent version and immediately upgraded.”

12 October 2007, Germany

Adam O’Toole

“Thank you for putting an excellent product out on the market. I use EditPad Pro on a daily basis for working with server logs and configuration files, and it has saved me so much time and effort in my daily work that it repays for itself on a weekly basis. I recommend it constantly to my coworkers in Support.”

“Thanks again for sending out the notification email recommending that I immediately upgrade to the new version. This is excellent proactive customer support and I commend you for it.”

23 August 2007, Massachusetts, USA

Mike Viens

“Thank you for your fantastic products. While programming is not really enjoyable for me after almost 25 years, I do find using your products to be extremely rewarding and time-saving. I have used thousands of programs throughout my life, but few ever work the way they should. I am very pleased that yours is one of those few.”

31 July 2007, California, USA

Yancey Sexton

“I just wanted you to know that I am a programmer and run an online weekly newspaper. I am a long time user and admirer of EditPad. I am still amazed almost daily of the power of EditPad Pro. I have not been so happy with a program since Sidekick back in the old DOS days. Everyday when I startup my computer I load my email, my browser, then EditPad Pro.”

“EditPad Pro is everything I’ve always wanted in an editor and much more. The price is nothing compared to the benefits. I only wish I could replace my word processor and publisher programs with EditPad Pro, but I guess I can’t have everything in one program.”

“Thank you so much for providing me a tool that has become so much a part of my life and has made my work so much easier.”

4 June 2007, Arizona, USA

David Hankinson

“For years I have been a registered user of UltraEdit32. Recently, I discovered and quickly registered EditPad Pro. Very impressive. Needless to say I won’t be going back to that ‘other’ editor.”

“Oh, and let me point out a huge plus—the ability to install my EditPad Pro on my PortableApps USB key. Wow! That is truly a major bonus for which I am most grateful.”

“Excellent work! Extremely happy to have EditPad Pro on my laptop AND my portable USB.”

30 April 2007, Canada

Steve Hodgson

“Thanks. I’d already registered by the time you sent this. Once I realised that file types could be recognised using a regex and that syntax definition was also based on regex I couldn’t resist.”

“Those features plus proper Unicode support, a nice clear file list for working on large projects and few modal dialogs meant it was time to move on from my previously much-loved TextPad that now seems to have been abandoned.”

4 March 2007, United Kingdom

Becky Peters

“I’ve been using EPP for a long time now… and I LOVE it. Can’t live without it. Recommend it all the time. I haven’t always upgraded as quickly as I should; with this last version I made a promise to myself that I am going to upgrade right away from now on… the enhancements you make with each version are really great and save me a lot of time. Just added RegexBuddy recently and kicked myself for not adding that a long time ago, also. It’s a super tool and easyeasyEASY.”

14 February 2007, Minnesota, USA

Peter Warrington

“May I say how much I enjoy using Editpad Pro, and have done so for some time now. After using various editors over the years, I find this to be one of the most flexible and versatile pieces of software around. It’s always nice to find software that can still surprise by its versatility.”

25 January 2007, United Kingdom

Xavier Clarke

“I love EditPadPro! I recently switched from using EmEditor. I’ve been using EmEditor for years and thought it was simply the best. It would have to take a heck of an editor to make me switch and EditPad Pro is a heck of an editor. Keep up the great work!”

10 December 2006, Texas, USA

Paul Petterson

“Just though I’d add that EditPad Pro is an awesome tool… I’ve been fiddling with making my own file navigation scheme for my ‘to-do list’ text file that all code developers seem to keep :) It’s really usefully to be able to collapse the sections I don’t have to worry about right now.”

“Thanks, and keep up the great work! :)”

6 October 2006, Washington, USA

John Edward Beard, II

“I’ve been using EditPad Classic for around five or six years now to make my web pages (using mainly HTML, XHTML, PHP, and CSS). I have always loved its robust search/replace which can handle all of my documents at once. The other night, I decided to see what was new with the project, and while I knew that EditPad had a new ‘Lite’ and ‘Pro’ version, I wasn’t interested before because Classic worked so well for me. The trial version of EditPad Pro put me over the edge with its syntax highlighting, dictionary support, and the ridiculous amount of features packed into a relatively small overall package.”

“Anyhow, I just wanted to say thanks for your outstanding products & customer service that I will gladly recommend to my friends and family, and continue to use throughout the years.”

“JGsoft is definitely a company that lives up to its name.”

1 September 2006, USS Kitty Hawk

John Roush

“I’ve been receiving your newsletter for five years now…”

“I’ve also (obviously) been an EditPad Pro 4.x user for the same five years… receiving free bug fixes…”

“Well, today I sent you $25 to upgrade to v6.0, and feel happy to do so. As the developer for the SpamLion product, I use your editor as #2 ONLY to Visual Studio (VB and C++).”

“In other words, ALL other coding (and searching/parsing log files) is done with your editor, which I use almost every day!”

“Of course, I also recommend the product to everyone!”

30 June 2006, California, USA

Jennifer Whildin

“I just wanted to tell you I’m extremely pleased with EditPad Pro 6, as I was with version 5, and it’s well worth the money. It’s useful for so many things, although I use it mostly as a text editor and HTML editor. One of my favorite things about it is a really simple thing, probably not even considered a feature: The search field allows selection and pasting of blank lines in such a way that I can delete extra blank lines all in one fell swoop, which I haven’t found with other HTML editors I’ve tried. It may not sound like much, but it really makes my life a lot easier, since I’ve edited a lot of fan fiction and original fiction files that had extra blank lines. I like my pages to look neat, even in coded view, and EditPad Pro 6 makes it simple. It’s simply the best text editor, HTML editor, and code editor around! Thank you so much!”

29 June 2006, New Jersey, USA

Wayne Clarke

“Great job on the new editor EditPadPro 6.0.0. I have been doing a lot of C-embedded programming lately and you have nailed the search capabilities. The projects, (epp) files are working great and now I rely on them heavily. I also enjoy stumbling into new features as I use it like right-clicking in the search panel to see a history list.”

5 June 2006, New York, USA

Paul Duggan

“Congratulations on EditPad Pro 6. I own all of your software, it is all amazing, feature packed and makes my work as a Delphi software developer even faster and a lot more fun. EditPad Pro is the jewel in your crown and version 6 is even better, I love the fold functionality and the way I can spell check Delphi comments and string literals.”

31 May 2006, United Kingdom

David Gwillim

“I just purchased and downloaded EditPadPro 6, I wanted to let you know what a great quantum leap in features you have added from 5. Well worth the upgrade fee.”

29 May 2006, New York, USA

Allen Day

“I have been using EditPad religiously for several years, I can still remember the relief it was to lay hands on EditPad after having been frustrated by the utter worthlessness of notepad. EditPad was just what I was looking for to assist me in my web design- small, fast, simple, and reliable- packed with features but still having the simple flexibility of a plain text editor. I must admit that I was a bit skeptical of 4.0 when I first sampled the betas- Mostly because it was so much more than I was used to. I feared EditPad becoming another notepad replacement with too-much bulk. I apologize for doubting you, Jan! I spent that last 2 months in Navy boot camp; upon returning to the virtual world, I was welcomed by the non-beta release of EditPad 4. I downloaded and sampled the lite version and within a few hours had purchased the Pro edition. EditPad 4.0 is brilliant. EditPad has every feature a person could possibly want, it is -fully- customizable, its footprint on your system is minute, and as we have come to respect from JGsoft- it’s a clean, stable, reliable program. Once again, you’ve gone above and beyond the call of duty in delivering a program leaves us wondering, ‘How does he do it?’”.

24 November 2001—two major upgrades later:

“Upgraded the moment I found out—congratulations on another brilliant version of EditPad! I’ve been really excited about this one—of the few things EditPad didn’t have that I liked in other editors, nearly all of them were implemented this time around. It’s a good week for EditPad fans :)”

27 May 2006, Florida, USA

Howard Carson—Kickstartnews

“EditPad Pro is a solid, versatile text editor. Highly recommended.”

Read Howard Carson’s full EditPad Pro 5.4.6 review.

12 April 2006

Lora Stephanchick

“Just wanted to provide some long overdue feedback. I’ve been using EditPad since about 1998. I have worked at 5 companies during this time, various technologies at each…but the one constant has been my use of EditPad. I’ve never been disappointed w/ the editor and am extremely pleased with the evolution of this tool. Regex and the ability to work with large files more efficiently than other text editors are extremely important to me, but the combination of those with the continually added features make EditPad Pro one of my favorite tools of all time. Keep up the great work.”

24 March 2006, Washington, USA

Alexander Douglas

“I just want to say that I greatly appreciate your product. I am the webmaster for my school, and I have two other websites that I maintain. When I first got into the industry, I tried different web page making programs. Ultimately, I felt I had the best control when I wrote my pages on notepad text editor. I frequently would cut and paste scripts into my pages as I learned or found them elsewhere. So many scripts became confusing to look at and to wade through to make updates on my pages. When I first saw your program, I did not bother with the ‘lite’ version and went ahead and bought your ‘pro’ version of editpad. It has made my editing of webpages so incredibly easier. Thank you. I am glad I bought your program.”

16 December 2005, Texas, USA

Tom Parkison

“At first, I was a bit reluctant about purchasing EditPad Pro since I was already using EditPad Lite. I figured that for the most part, EditPad Lite suited me fine. That was until I really started working with PHP, sometimes working with scripts ranging anywhere from 2000 lines or more.”

“Anyways, making sure that I had closed my brackets was getting to be a chore. Try debugging a PHP script searching for that one line that you forgot to add that one single end-bracket to. Anyways, with EditPad Pro’s ability to automatically color-code PHP scripts and the ability to put your cursor in front of a bracket and then having it highlight its matching bracket, well, with that, I was instantly hooked on EditPad Pro.”

“I just wanted to say this because EditPad Pro really has made my life developing my PHP scripts a whole lot easier.”

10 November 2005, Ohio, USA

Jonathan Terry

“I am not a programmer. I’m a land surveyor. I use your program to edit data collection files (text files) and ASCII point dumps, etc. The first purchase with a former employer was to get line numbers to show up and to be able to perform block edits. But, the program has so many useful features, and it works perfectly for my applications. Each time I open it, I greet it with love. (Too sappy? Sorry, that’s the truth.)”

“So many of the programs I’ve used (and still use) are buggy and unreliable. To encounter a program whose usefulness grows as my understanding of its power increases is such a blessing. It’s been useful in so many ways, including comparisons between point-dump files to see if anything has changed. This alone has saved hours or annoyingly tedious checking. At this firm, we’ve purchased two seats, and more will be needed in time.”

“When I’ve had questions, you’ve responded promptly and thoroughly with what little support I’ve needed.”

“Thank You! You’ve done a wonderful service.”

15 September 2005, Pennsylvania, USA

Kyle Cooney

“I must say, I’m blown away. EditPad Pro is, all at once, the most simple application to use, as well as one of the most powerful. I consistently find myself using it for everything I do, from drafting my agenda for the day’s work, to brainstorming project ideas, to coding all of my Ruby, Java, and XHTML/XML projects.”

“I’m also extremely happy to find the addition of a project management tool built in to the application. And I can’t believe more applications of similar nature still don’t have a launch in browser button. So simple, yet such a huge time saver, and it leaves me from having to deal with the temporary files that Dreamweaver creates.”

23 June 2005, Washington DC, USA

Roger Schroeder

“Thanks for your speedy response.”

“I have now downloaded the free version, and seen that it does what I want—and does it VERY well. I’m a fairly old-time computer geek, having been in the business since before the integrated circuit was developed, so I do know a good piece of software when I see it—and this is a GREAT piece of software.”

“After looking the free version over for about ten minutes, I went ahead and ordered the US$ 39 version from your website. The last piece of software that really impressed me was SuperCalc3—until now. (I guess Excel 97 was OK)”

27 January 2005, Massachusetts, USA

Ryan Ware

“Thank you. I ran across your editor [EditPad Pro] the other day. I had last used the free version [EditPad Lite] on a couple years back. I own TextPad and UltraEdit too, but I must say yours has leap frogged them. I especially like the syntax highlighting and the download method of getting the highlighting files you want—light years ahead of the other editors.”

5 August 2004, Minnesota, USA

Bob Chmara

“I am a former CodeWrite user. While I really liked CodeWrite, and it took me some time to adjust to the ‘EditPad Way’, I couldn’t be happier with an editor. Most of my work is HTML, Perl, PHP and XML, and the flexibility and capabilities of EditPad make that work so much easier.”

2 August 2004, Michigan, USA

Brian P. Glover

“I am a big fan of EditPad Pro, and tell everyone I come in contact with that might need an industrial-strength text editor to get EditPad Pro. Most people look at me a bit strangely when they find I am so ‘up’ on something so seemingly mundane as a text editor. When that happens, it is a sign either that they really do not do ‘heavy lifting’ with text files, or they are too clueless to appreciate what EditPad Pro could do to make their work simpler and faster.”

“I am not a true programmer, but do work with formatted-text data files, and from time to time need to look at some old Unix utility scripts in awk, sed, perl, and also some C and C++ code to try to figure out what they do, etc. The syntax coloring, Regular Expression search/replace, and Block Copy/Paste are so incredibly useful in my daily work. Also, I just noticed that EditPad Pro ver. 5.2.1 seems to ‘recognize’ many more fixed-width fonts than the older version 4-series of EditPad Pro. This is nice to see.”

“I looked at some other text editors for Windows, such as UltraEdit (it was too complex for what I had in mind) but EditPad Pro was the perfect balance between ease of use, with all the functionality that I needed.”

“When I had access to Unix and VMS systems a few years back, we had at our disposal a text editor called NEdit. That text editor is the quintessence of text editors in my estimation. It is extremely speedy even with immense text files. For Windows use, EditPad Pro is practically the same as NEdit was in Unix and VMS.”

“Thank you for producing and maintaining such a high-quality product. It is a pleasure to use EditPad Pro.”

20 February 2004, Minnesota, USA

Bob Metelsky

“I’ve used your program every day for the past 3 years and besides my browser it’s the most used program on my machine. I’m a database administrator and work with COM developers so I’m constantly editing scripts etc. No doubt your program is exceptionally popular across the world. I love it!!!”

29 October 2003, Connecticut, USA

LockerGnome

“It’s as if they studied all those popular text editors and developed a brand new one that’s even better. (What a concept!)”

Lockergnome Windows Daily
4th of July, 2002

David S. Battey

“I’ve been using EditPad for may years, now, and was satisfied with my first version of EditPad Pro. You have continued to make a great product better. It has been one of the best software purchases I’ve ever made and is definitely one of the best tools in my box. Thanks! It really is Just Great Software!”

2 April 2002, South Carolina, USA

Michael Boffemmyer

“First of all I just want to say I have had Edit Pad Pro and upgrades for I think going on 2 maybe 3 years now and this is by FAR the BEST investment I have ever made.”

“There is literally not one THING I can suggest to make this product any better or even improve upon. I have even tried others such as Vim, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Edit Geneii, Coffee Cup Editor and a few others and they don’t even come close to the rich features, ease of use and user friendly without taking away any power to compensate for the user friendliness, not ONE of them or even all combined. Also Edit Pad Pro unlike the others is very ‘kind’ to system resources which this alone is a major plus all in itself.”

“I was very surprised to see just how many of My friends were using Edit Pad Lite and My first recommendation was “Spend the money and get PRO, you CAN’T go wrong, not like its really all that expensive compared to all you get in return”. I really do hope this has helped with Your company and business, but also just as important My friends can have the full features that Pro has to offer. I have even highly suggested its use to My company which is a major machine tool shop in the US in Kentucky for their office systems for designing the software for the lathes and mills We make.

“[…] Again, I most kindly thank You and especially Jan Goyvaerts for creating the best product to ever be in existence for Text editing and please PLEASE keep up the excellent work!!!”

12 July 2003, Kentucky, USA

Jim Melanson

“I got involved in the web with Perl Programming back in 1997. I hated using Notepad because it was very cumbersome. Then I found EditPad. I have been using it exclusively ever since. Sure, from time to time I’ve tried other text editors that promised to be the cure for all my ills but none of them ever held a candle to your extremely well written, versatile, DEPENDABLE and efficient product called EditPad Pro. Heck, the search and replace and go to line numbers are worth their weight in gold. The schemes for Perl scripts have made my work and absolute breeze now for editing and debugging.

“Keep up the excellent work, I’ll be a life long customer!”

Jim Melanson

President & Founder
Perl Services, www.perlservices.net

25 March 2002, Ontario, Canada

Greg Gates—RingDesigner.com, Inc

“Jan, we use your EditPad Pro product everyday in our very successful engagement ring e-commerce business. It is used in the most mission critical function we perform daily, our updating of our product database of over 4,000 platinum & gold rings and over 9,000 certified diamonds. We use it for a lot of other functions too, but not as important as our life blood.

“It is the simplest yet most complete text editor to use, and we have tried a bunch of them. Thank you for creating and providing such an outstanding product. Our livelihood depends on it daily.”

15 Nov 2001, Oregon, USA

Jan Muszynski

“Thanks for all your work, I, at least, greatly appreciate it and think that you have a *great* product here. I’d truly feel lost without it.”

4 August 2001, New York, USA

Steven Noto

“Let me begin by saying that I really really like EditPad Pro. It is everything I ever wished NotePad could be, and more. You have even incorporated the best of utilities like diff, grep, and regular expressions! This program has already saved me weeks of tedious work. I will be registering my copy as soon as I get my next paycheck.”

Rode (Hold No Punches)

“I have been running both EditPad Pro and Lite in Windows 98SE2 and Windows 2000 for a couple of months and haven’t experienced a single glitch, hang, or bug. Everything works as it should, there is lots of help when you need it and EditPad behaves like a well tuned Porsche. You may find a free text editor with more features, but if speed, ease of use, and problem free operation is what you want in your text editor then EditPad Lite is the logical choice. I think it is the best free text editor available. If you are a programmer, or use your text editor as a lightweight word processor, then EditPad Pro is a good choice at a fair price.

“Either way you can’t go wrong with EditPad!”

Michael J. Wilson

“I purchased EditPad several years ago and I must say I have always been very satisfied with the product. Even beta versions have been a joy to use. The support has been and remains excellent. Your product stands out head and shoulders above the crowd. I can’t tell you just how helpful the relatively recent addition of the ‘Project’ menu has been to me. Please let Mr. Jan Goyvaerts know that he has produced a wonderful product and I look forward to supporting his efforts in the years to come.”

15 Jan 2001, Massachusetts, USA