EditPad™ Pro Testimonials
What The People Say

Michael Brenden

"Not a day goes by while I'm using EditPadPro 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

Ryan Lloyd

"Thanks for the email [announcing EditPad Pro 6]. I have just taken a look at the features and screenshots on the new version and it looks superb. So many features, I think I will give it a try!

"I have been evaluating Ultraedit for a while now, it looks like you have created an editor which has everything Ultraedit has and a while lot more.

"Keep up the great work."

27 May 2006, United Kingdom

Rodney Hill

"I just installed version 6 and I am dancing jigs. Great job! The File Navigator alone is a huge value addition, not to mention the macro support."

26 May 2006, Washington, USA

Brice Fernandes

"I'd like to thank you for making such a great product as EditPadPro. I was reluctant to buy a text editor when great ones are available free online, but i haven't been disappointed. It is by far one of the best software purchases I have made, and was worth the price several times over. It quite simply rocks!"

27 May 2008, United Kingdom

Bruce Brownlee

"I love your software. It works great and I like having tools written by people who actually freakin understand regular expressions. A lot of editors pretend to do regex and make a mess of it."

3 April 2008, Georgia, USA

Tsuguya Sasaki

"Since I purchased your editor, I've been spending hours every day using it. It's such a pleasure to use it. A lot of thoughts have been put in advance in this amazing editor. In one of my previous messages I wrote that EditPad Pro is one of the two best editors I've tried, but I have to correct myself now: it's the best editor I've ever used among no less than 100! I've made it my default editor except for not so frequent occasions of using Hebrew."

9 March 2008, Israel

Adam Thompson

"Regarding your software: It is awesome. You hit all of the important features - I'm repeatedly impressed because it seems like you have 'anticipated' every good use of your software. For example, closing an empty EditPad Pro window doesn't ask for a save. AceText, the entire application, is an another example; totally useful and well-designed. RegexBuddy accomplishes things I've never seen in any other regex software. I hope you're making tons of money - you deserve it for these wonderful products you've produced. So far I've purchased RegexBuddy, then AceText, and soon EditPad Pro. I'm going to try PowerGREP just based on how useful your other software is."

28 February 2008, California, USA

Simon Thomson

"EditPad Pro 5 was the best... EditPad Pro 6 goes one step further, however there are limited words to express my feelings and thoughts on this programme. If there was a counter on the number of times it gets used through the days, months and years that I have been using the programme, the number would be too long to fit in the status bar. The feature list seems endless and the developers must have really devious minds to come up with a simple replacement to notepad with so many features. Go on buy it, you wont regret it!"

10 October 2007, United Kingdom

Terry Fletcher

"Superb product, superb support. What more can one ask for? Thank you.

"I use EditPad constantly and I cannot understand how anybody can get through their working day without the assistance of the programme. I also have AceText supporting EditPad, but I don't think I am utilising that programme to its fullest extent. However, the 'Clip Collection' feature alone makes it worthwhile owning and using both.

"Once again, thanks for a couple of excellent products. I never hesitate to recommend them, whether I am asked or not!"

23 August 2007, Portugal

Simon Morrish

"I'm happy to add my name to the list of very-satisfied EditPad Pro users. Previously, I used CodeWright. It took me a long time to find something better, but you managed it! For me, the single killer-feature is the regex-based syntax highlighting and file navigation schemes. I believe it's the most flexible and powerful available anywhere. Other editors support HTML with embedded script, but only as a special case. EPP's syntax highlighting supports just about anything I can imagine throwing at it!"

28 June 2007, United Kingdom

Santosh Narayanan

"I've been using EditPad Lite for over 7 years now. I finally upgraded to EditPad Pro today and cannot believe how I got by without this incredible editor! It is worth every bit of the $49.95 fee that I paid for it. It has already made my current FTP software (WS-FTP Pro) obsolete and has even made Outlook partially obsolete with its integrated FTP and e-mail features!"

19 May 2007, India

Peter Remmers

"I came across your editor because I was looking for one with powerful syntax coloring capabilities. I use it at work to improve the readability of large debug log output files.

"I was using TextPad for this but it does not have much syntax coloring support. I tried jEdit. It is about as powerful as EditPad Pro concerning syntax coloring, but it is written in Java and is painfully slow when using complex coloring rules together with a large text file (and logging files tend to become pretty large!). So I was looking for a text editor which has powerful syntax coloring capabilities and is not written in Java - and I found EditPad Pro.

"First, I downloaded the trial, but unfortunately it would not let me test the syntax coloring rules, only predefined sets :-(

"Then I took the risk and simply bought it. And I was not disappointed regarding the syntax coloring capabilities! This is just great! And it is fast. :-D"

12 April 2007, Germany

Frank Lin

"I am trying out EditPad Pro, and I have to say that I like it a lot - it's the best, most customizable, and the fastest general Unicode text editor I've used, and I've tried many different ones."

14 February 2007, USA

Trevor Borgmeier

"I have a sad story to tell. I switched to OS X. My biggest hesitation was knowing I would lose my true love of a text editor, Editpad Pro. I can run it using Wine, or by running windows through parallels, and though I haven't entirely ruled out those options, it is less than ideal. There have been many difficulties in making the switch to OS X, but none compare to the loss of Editpad Pro. Though I kind of enjoy being Microsoft free, I really dislike being JGsoft free. You've created such a wonderful text editor with an excellent intuitive design and so many great features. Of the text editors I've tried under OS X, none of them come close to Editpad Pro. None of them. Unless my dreams come true and you sneakily release a new OS X (or Linux) version I must say Editpad Pro is going to be missed dearly. Aside from my dislike of OS X's Finder, Editpad Pro is what most tempts me to switch back to Windows. EPP, I will be sure to visit you from time to time and let you tickle my text in ways that only you have, but for now I'm very sad to say good-bye. You will be missed, but never forgotten."

2 January 2007, Minnesota, USA

Terry Constant

"I just wanted you to know that I am using [EditPad Pro version] 6.1.2 and it is a very good product.

"It is the closest thing on the market to an all-purpose editor. It performs excellently in various tasks (programming, general text work, and so forth).

"I started using various "editors" in the 1960s (punch cards) and have used many dozens of them since then and made a few contributions to the programming of a few.

"You have succeeded in producing the best general editor in the world, which is at the top of the list for any particular field.

"Congratulations!"

24 November 2006, Texas, USA

Richard Watt

"I want to thank you for creating what I consider my ultimate tool for a Windows PC. Finding that perfect editor has been difficult for me and with your newest version I think I have found it. You probably don't remember, but I contacted you over a year ago to inquire about some features that were absent, such as Duplicate Line. I was happy to see that here now. I did purchase my copy about a few weeks ago and it has been a joy to use."

26 August 2006, Alabama, USA

Tony Austin

"A year or two ago, I suggested that you add "Save As" to the EditPad context menu (right click menu). I was extremely surprised and gratified to see it appear in a sub-release not long after that! In contrast, with some other companies (Qualcomm with Eudora, NTI with Shadow backup, etc) I have found it to be a battle to even convince them that you have a valid problem, extremely hard to get past the Help Desk (not software designers/programmers) to somebody who understands and agrees that it needs fixing, etc. I wish all software companies were like JGSoft."

28 June 2006, Australia

Michael Dun

"Great news! Thank you so much [for fixing this bug so quickly]! I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate the time you spend in development, the speed with which you fix and enhance the program, the power (regex!) and its myriad features, and how frequently I use and enjoy it every day. I've been an evangelistic convert for over 6 years - and was just able to convince my team at work that we needed to purchase licenses for the rest of them. 5 more converts!

"Thanks again, for all the hard work and the great results!"

16 June 2006, Arizona, USA

Marcus Jaeger

"I have been a long time user of Editpad since the days it was cardware. I had been using version 4 for a long time and then made the jump to version 6 as I was very happy with 4. Now using version 6 knocked me of my feet! Since I started using it for my daily work, which is a lot of hostmaster and DNS work, with lots of different templates and also cisco router configs, it made my work much easier, as I can find things faster and customize more. The new layout took a bit getting used to, but did not take long! Thanks for an amazing upgrade and great work over the last years!

5 June 2006, Switzerland

Daniel Hutchinson

"[The Install on Removable Drive feature] is a very welcome addition to your program... I don't know how many times in the past when I've helped someone with their computer that I've had to use Notepad as the text editor and wished I had EditPad Pro to work with, especially if dealing with HTML or some other file that used indenting for organization.

"Again, job well done! Upgrading your program is a no-brainer!"

30 May 2006, Missouri, USA

Bob Dankert

"Thank you so much for your continued work and dedication to the software and the customers of the customers of the software. Never before have I encountered a software author willing to take suggestions and as helpful as you are - it is very much appreciated. I definitely look forward to see what improvements you continue to make to the software in the future, though it is hard to imagine it can get much better!"

27 May 2006, Wisconsin, USA

Allen Day

"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

Daniel Lopez

"I've been using EditPad for many years and I think it's a great program. Just before ordering the last version I had a quick look at some other editors and they all infuriated me with some small quirk or other - whereas EditPad is sensibly and intuitively designed throughout."

25 May 2006, United Kingdom

Howard Carson
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"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

Bob Jenner

"I've finally registered EditPadPro, with a great sense of relief and satisfaction. The file diff and hex editor features tipped me over the edge. One concern has been moving the editor with me, since I move around and don't want to violate the license by leaving a trail of copies behind me. Behold: the ActiveDisk version! Great!"

16 July 2003

Simon Thomson

"To be perfectly honest, EditPad Pro is the best thing since sliced bread and I recommend it to everyone I meet. Who needs FrontPage or DreamWeaver when you know all the code and you have a fantastic programme like EditPad Pro?"

31 March 2006, United Kingdom

Simon Price

"As a daily user of EditPad Pro, I find this to be amongst the best pieces of software I use. It is intuitive, and has all the functionality a text editor needs. If only all applications were as stable and reliable as EditPad! I always reference it in the metatag section of all the web pages I produce."

28 February 2006, United Kingdom

Christopher Ryan

"I wanted to write up a testimonial for EditPad Pro -- but I don't fit in with 99% of the other folks who have great things to say about editpad pro because it's a great coders companion... I live at the opposite end of the digital creation spectrum.. I'm not a coder - I'm a writer... Whats more - I'm a spastic quadriplegic - which means I'm wheelchair bound and also have very bad vision. I can only type with four fingers on my left hand, and my eyes have stigmatisms in both of them - which means that I have serious trouble using most word processors because nobody cares about giving users the ability to use a square cursor instead of that incredibly thin line, and under windows, you cant change the background and foreground colors without changing the entire color scheme for every application used by the operating system.

"...then I discovered editpad pro. I'm not kidding when I say that I wept for joy when I realized that I could change the cursor to a full color square that DIDNT blink and compose anything I want in whatever font size I want with whatever color scheme I want. I can now write entire chapters in a few days, sometimes less than 48 hours, and I'm not kidding when I say that I use EditPad Pro to compose every important document i create - from letters, to emails, to full fictional manuscripts to blog entries for all the blogs I participate in... I no longer have to wear polarized sunglasses to use Microsoft Word because of their horrid bright white default background.. I just have to cut and paste my content from EditPad into word, save it in the format i want, and there's nothing else to worry about. The best part about editpad is that it doesn't try to be the most complicated application in the world - in fact it goes out of its way NOT to be. I cant begin to thank you enough for creating an alternative to all the other popular word processing applications that have all the intelligence in the world, but have yet to learn how to shut up and stay out of a writers way. The last thing I need when I'm trying to crank through a hundred pages of manuscript is to have to stop every five minutes and backtrack because autoformat just butchered an entire section of dialog that took me an hour to put together just the way i want it...

"Finally, I'd like to thank you most of all for making EditPad Pro as customizable as you have, because those extra options - the square cursor and the ability to make the application utilize any colors I choose, along with the ability to make the fonts as big as I need them to be -- none of those features might seem very important to you, but to someone like me with a disability, they mean everything. Those features alone have given me the opportunity to work for 8-9 hours a day on manuscripts without having to pay for it with terrible migraines every night -- as far as I'm concerned, you haven't just created a great piece of software - you've honestly improved my quality of life, and for that I'll be forever thankful and indebted to you for the rest of my life."

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3 March 2006, Florida, USA

Kenneth Papp

"I write metadata for a state geological survey and EditPad Pro allows me to do this with ease. Many projects require multiple metadata files, so features such as tab-switching between multiple files, save all, spell-check all, multi-file comparisons and statistics, and within-page bookmarks are wonderful to have and use in a text editor. Keep up the great work!"

14 September 2005, Alaska, USA

Karel Behounek

"It is true that US$ 40 may seem too much for a "notepad replacement" to someone, but EditPad Pro is definitely worth it, I have tried maybe eight different editors before, but yours does everything I need, and does it conveniently and very fast.

"Just this week I was looking for some diff tool to compare versions of (PL/SQL) source code I tried a few and then discovered that there is some included within EditPad, and discovered that it is very convenient for me (one document with red/green differences is much better than looking to and fro from left to right like in most specialized diff tools).

"The same applies to your hex editor, and so on. I am happy that I have found this one."

26 April 2005, Czech Republic

John B. 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, Australia

Bernd Baier

"I just want to let you know that I love your EditPad Software :-)

"I just purchased EditPad Pro from your website and it is fantastic. I can tell you ... in regards to creating websites ... EditPad Pro is the ultimate webpage designer. It beats Macromedia Dreamweaver with ease.

"I was working with EditPad Lite for almost (I think) three years for all text editing I do on my three computers and it was just the best Editor I ever had ... well at least until the point I upgraded to the Pro-Version. Since I started to do some websites with html and php I wished the Lite version had different colors for html and php tags ... and see, [the Pro version] DOES. And not only that! I appreciate the fair licensing policy that I am allowed to install it on all my three computers (2x personal PCs and 1x Laptop)"

12 March 2005, Georgia, USA

Justin Michael Evans

"I have been using EditPad Pro for a long time, and find it to be the best text editor out there, especially for programming. Even editors specific to the language I am programming in don't compare to the quality and ease of use of EditPad Pro. Keep up the good work."

17 September 2004, New Jersey, USA

V. J. Webb

"This is one of the best editors I have ever used! I am an application programmer and have used a lot of editors on a lot of different platforms over the last 25 years. EditPad Pro is an exceptional product."

29 July 2004, California, USA

John Burkhardt

"I would also like to compliment you on a fine product. I use your product on an almost daily basis and find it to be the best programming editor I have used. Keep up the great work!"

22 March 2004, Ohio, USA

Ben Sandberg

"I'm constantly pleased with the efficiency and power of your wonderful program. Please keep up the great work."

18 May 2003, Oregon, USA

Slavko Raspotnik

"I see that I made the right decision. With such quick and nice support I am sure I bought the right software for me. Thank you for your quick support."

20 September 2003, Slovenia

Shashi Gothivarekar

"I bought the EditPad Pro package and I am a very satisfied user. I am a totally blind user and this package, I think, is simply fantastic for the visually impaired users. The features such as selecting a block of text, inserting the whole text of an external file at a certain point, appending selected text to the clipboard are simply fantastic and the package has made my life no end easier which really drives me to say that it is worth every cent of its price."

22 October 2003, United Kingdom

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

Peter F. Ferris

"I just think it's a swell editor. It pales UltraEdit and many others. [...] Worth taking for a test drive!"

22 March 2002, Oklahoma, USA

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

Director of Programming, Robinson Internet Solutions, www.robinsoninternet.com

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.

Warmest Regards,

Greg Gates
Founder www.ringdesigner.com

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!"

Read Rode's detailed "Hold No Punches" review of EditPad Lite and Pro.

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

Matthew Lonergan

"I have been using EditPad for several years and wanted to compliment you on both the original, and this kick-ass professional version. I rarely find a shareware product I feel good about paying for, but EditPad Pro is outstanding.

"The new feature I am using the most is the mail function. Simple and fast. [...]

"Keep it small and fast and I will use EditPad forever."

Harold Daniel

"I was just sitting here, working away and it occurred to me that EditPad Pro is one of the applications I use the most. I've been using EditPad for years - it is just a wonderful piece of software.

"It is so refreshing to have an affordable program that works as it is supposed to and is full of great USEFUL features - unlike so many other products on the market today.

"I just wanted to say thank you for a job well done. I don't know what I would do without it."

12 July 2003, Texas, USA

Tom Sweeny

Just a short note to say thank you for all of your hard work on EditPad Pro. I am one of a number of blind people who use and appreciate your products. EditPad Pro enables me to do things I would not otherwise be able to do in working on my website.

17 December 2001, Colorado, USA

Jonathan Kaplan

"Allow me to add my voice to the many accolades you have received on your fantastic product. It has been of great use to me. As a fellow software engineer, I greatly value applications that work well, and yours most certainly does. Well done!"

19 November 2002, New Jersey, USA

Phil Bradley

"Not only is EditPad Pro a superb product, but you provide excellent support too."

20 October 2000, United Kingdom

Matt Mattero

"I have been using your EditPad, and EditPad Pro for several years now. I really like the fact that you offer such fine support and get back to your users very fast! I also love the ease of operation in doing global changes to HTML code. I have tried other products, and have also used Windows Notepad, but I was always frustrated when I wanted to work on more than one page at a time, and had to keep closing and reopening my editor.

"This product is first class and it really is great because it even lets you know when you have not saved a page, as the color of the tab is different. The reopen function is also great that it helps you remember what page you last edited.

"I would advise everyone to get this valuable tool to do all their text, html and other editing and programming with. This is a fantastic tool for the price you are charging, and the updates you get for FREE are a real blessing!

"You have my support now and for the entire Future!"

Matt Mattero, President and CEO
Creative Pages - Matt Mattero Ministries

28 June 2002, Pennsylvania, 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, Florida, USA

Anthony Lee Calhoun

"I purchased EditPad Pro not too long ago, and I am just writing you to tell you that it has saved me a tremendous amount of time! At first I didn't notice anything that would really help me out, but after using it a few weeks, It really shows up. I like your program better and better each day I use it. Some of the key things that help me save time are: Spell checking all open documents, Find and Replace all open documents (These save an ungodly amount of time!). The main reason I purchased your software at first was because Notepad doesn't have enough space for most of my pages and sometimes I would be forced to use WordPad, and this was horrible. Anyways, Thank you greatly for making a program to make my job a lot easier, with less hassle and frustration. No Editor compares with yours. Keep up the good work!"

26 January 2001, South Carolina, USA

Herman van Beek

"Just wanted to send you a quick note to let you know that I really appreciate using your program. During the past three weeks I've been using it at a rate of 10-15 hours per day.

"I'm working on a fairly large Perl/JavaScript/html project where I have to switch often between 6 to 10 routines; having tabs at the top has made it a breeze to do so. The undo capability has also saved me many a time! I'm looking forward to learn the other capabilities of the program as I use it more frequently.

"After almost 20 years of using a proprietary DOS based text editor, I've finally found a product that provides me with a real productivity boost!"

In short: "EditPadPro -- It IS great software!"

6 November 2000, Texas, USA

Steve Corenflos

"I wanted to say firstly thank you for making such a wonderful product as EditPad [Classic]. I have used the original EditPad for some time (yes, I know I owe you a post card or phone card, and I will be sending you one shortly!). It is probably the only software I have ever seen fit to encourage people to try or even inform people of its existence.

"When I went to the JGsoft web page the other day to download EditPad to my girlfriend's computer, I was surprised to find that you now have not only updated EditPad, but changed the postcardware version to EditPad Lite and created a for-sale EditPad Pro.

"I have an unfortunate habit of finding pirated software online and usually prefer taking this approach to the more honest but extremely overpriced practice of purchasing software. True to your form, however, EditPad Pro is far from overpriced, and I believe it is the most reasonably priced software that I have ever seen--so of course I bought it. That makes EditPad Pro the first piece of software I have found that is, in my opinion, of such quality and so reasonably priced that I had no qualms over purchasing it.

"I will try not to take up any more of your time. So in closing, thank you very much for your effort and your commitment to providing excellent software at more than reasonable cost."

15 October 2000, Indiana, USA

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