Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose. Crazy fast startup. Zero bloat. Works the way your brain does - not the other way around.
Free to evaluate. No time limit. Works right out of the box.
Every feature is designed to keep you in flow state. No distractions, no lag. Just pure productivity.
Open any file, jump to any symbol, or go to any line in milliseconds. Ctrl+P is the fastest way to navigate your project. Period.
Make ten changes at once. Select a word and hit Ctrl+D to add cursors at every occurrence. Repetitive edits become a single action.
Access every function without touching the mouse. Fuzzy matching means you type a few letters, hit enter. Done. It just works.
Edit files side by side or view two locations in the same file. Supports 2, 3, or 4 pane layouts. Perfect for large projects.
Package Control gives you 5,000+ community packages. Git integration, linters, formatters, themes - whatever you need, it exists.
Supports 80+ languages out of the box. Custom color schemes. The highlighting engine is faster than anything you've used before.
Benchmarked against popular editors on real-world projects. Results speak for themselves.
An honest look at how it compares with other popular editors. We're biased, sure - but the data is real.
| Feature | Sublime Text | VS Code | Atom | Notepad++ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Startup Time | 0.8s | 3-5s | 5-8s | 1.5s |
| RAM Usage (Idle) | ~100MB | ~400MB | ~500MB | ~30MB |
| Large File Support | 2GB+ | ~200MB | ~100MB | ~400MB |
| Plugin Ecosystem | 5,000+ | 30,000+ | 8,000+ | 300+ |
| Cross-Platform | ||||
| Multi-Caret Editing | ||||
| Installer Size | 14MB | 90MB | 180MB | 4MB |
From zero to coding in four dead-simple steps. No account creation, no telemetry, no nonsense.
Pick your OS above and grab the installer. It weighs about 14MB - downloads in seconds, even on slow connections.
Run the installer. Takes maybe 20 seconds. No bloatware, no sign-up forms, no "choose your experience" wizard.
Open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P), install Package Control, and browse 5,000+ plugins for your workflow.
Drag a folder into Sublime and start working. Syntax detection is automatic. Your project sidebar is ready to go.
Real feedback from real users. Not generated by marketing - grabbed from forums, communities, and direct submissions.
Switched from VS Code and it feels like going from a minivan to a sports car. Everything opens instantly. My 47-plugin setup loads in under a second. Can't imagine going back.
Opened a 2GB CSV file like it was nothing. VS Code crashed. Atom wouldn't even try. Sublime just... handled it. Multi-caret editing alone saves me 45 minutes every single day.
Been with Sublime for 8 years. Tried every shiny new editor that came out. Always ended up back here. Goto Anything is still the best navigation tool in any editor, anywhere.
The distraction-free mode changed how I write code. No sidebar, no tab bar. Just me and the code. Focus went up like 200%. Seriously underrated feature.
I maintain a monorepo with 1,200+ files. Sublime's project indexing is ridiculously fast. Symbol lookup across the entire codebase takes less than 100ms. Nothing else comes close.
Teaching intro CS courses, I always recommend Sublime. Students aren't fighting the tool - they're learning to code. Light enough to run on those ancient school laptops too.
Got questions? We probably have answers. If not, the community forums are insanely active.
You can evaluate Sublime Text for free, and there's no enforced time limit. It's not "30-day trial" free. You can use it indefinitely. The only difference is you'll see a purchase reminder popup occasionally. Buying a license removes that and supports development. So technically free? Pretty much yeah.
Windows, macOS, and Linux. Native builds for all three. Not Electron, not a web app wrapped in a browser - actual native code compiled for each platform. That's why it's fast. Same features everywhere, optimized for each OS.
Speed and weight, mostly. Sublime launches in under a second, uses about 100MB of RAM. VS Code takes 3-5 seconds and eats 400MB+ just sitting there. If you need a full IDE experience with integrated debugging and terminal, VS Code makes sense. If you want a fast, focused text editor that stays out of your way, Sublime wins every time.
Absolutely. Install Package Control (takes 10 seconds), and you get access to over 5,000 community-built packages. Emmet, GitGutter, SublimeLinter, Prettier, language packs for everything from Rust to COBOL. Whatever you need probably already exists.
Effortlessly. We're talking multi-gigabyte files. Log files, database dumps, massive CSVs - Sublime handles them without breaking a sweat. Most editors choke or crash on anything over a few hundred megabytes. Sublime just opens them.
Almost nothing. 2GB of RAM and any processor from the last decade will do. The installer itself is under 15MB. It runs smoothly on machines that struggle with heavier editors. If your computer turns on, it can run Sublime Text.
3.8 million developers already made the switch. The download takes 10 seconds. Setup takes another 20. Your workflow will never feel the same.