
UltraEdit/Ultra Compare - these two programs are always sold together and work on Windows, Mac, and Linux.Subscription is lower cost but the product stops working after a year if you let the subscription lapse.

Perpetual is a one-time purchase with free updates for a year after which you can keep using the product without paying more for it-although you'll need to pay if you want further updates. UltraEdit has two different packages, or grouping of their products, and two different licensing models, perpetual or subscription. In the following list of prices for both products, I've rounded the pricing to the nearest whole U.S. At the end, I'll give a summary of the aspects of each that struck me as being unique or particularly positive for each editor. The bulk of my time is spent in the full-featured Delphi IDE nevertheless, I do have need for a good-quality text editor in many circumstances and having several time-saving features built-in are well worth learning about and using.įirst, I'll list the two products, their prices and licensing structure, and what machines I'm using them on, then go down through the list of features and compare as many as I can. This review is the personal conclusion I came to based on my experience, interest, and needs-your view may be different. It also concentrates on just the task of editing files, mostly ignoring file comparison, FTP, and file-finding features of UltraEdit's companion tools. This review doesn't cover every feature of the two editors nor does it go into great depth as there are tutorials and videos on each of the respective sites.


I decided to go through the feature set and compare this suite of tools with EditPad Pro the text editor I've used for several years from Just Great Software. Embarcadero's parent company, Idera, recently acquired UltraEdit which includes the company's namesake product, UltraEdit, a long-standing favorite text editor among many programmers, and some accompanying tools that have grown up around the main product, namely UltraCompare, UltraFTP, and UltraFinder.
