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4.4
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Atom Reviews & Product Details

Atom Overview
What is Atom?

Atom is an open-source text editor used by software developers. The platform is free and features tools that allow cross-platform editing, code autocomplete and Git integration. With Atom, developers can streamline workflows while ensuring better collaboration with team members with the goal of creating high-quality software.

Company GitHub, Inc.
Year founded 2008
Company size 501-1000 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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Languages English
Atom Features
Auto-completion
Bracket Matching
Built-in Terminal
Cloud Sync
Code Folding
Code Formatting
Code Snippets
Customizable Themes
Diff Tool
Drag and Drop Editing
Error Checking
File Explorer
Hex Editor
Keyboard Shortcuts
Line Numbering
Linter Integration
Live Preview
Macros
Markdown Support
Minimap
Multi-Cursor Editing
Multiple Language Support
Plugin/Extension Support
Regular Expression Support
Search and Replace
Spell Check
Split View
Syntax Highlighting
Text Wrapping
Version Control Integration
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Last updated: October 05, 2024
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765 Atom Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 30, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Shreyas B. avatar
Shreyas B.
Founder
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"Easy to use"
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom was easy to use and beginner friendly. One for the better text editors

What do you dislike about Atom?

Did not have many features as compared to other editors

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Writing javascript programs with embedded git control

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 05, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Deepak o. avatar
Deepak O.
Software Engineer
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"Atom :an user friendly text editor"
What do you like best about Atom?

i like the user interface of atom along with ui it also offers git integrated with it which helps us to push the text at remote.you can customise it according to you. its good in terms of performance. its quite fast. you can use various themes also. its open source and freely available on the internet.its cross plateform you can use it on mac, windows or linux.if you are a developer it will help you a lot as it helped me to create and modify the whole ui and i customised it as per my ease. it has good comunity support and it helps when we get stuck or face some issue. i faced a issue few days back it was crashing constanly i googled it and i resolved with the help of solution posted by the community.

What do you dislike about Atom?

continouse updates and bug fixes makes it little bit distruptive. you will see that git is integrated partially not all features are available.its resource intensive its not like other light weight text editor tools in terms of occupying resources you may suffer little bit slowness while using atom.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

i use it to make the notes while attending teams calls and meetings. it helps me to memorise a lot of things i have noted down throughout my work experience. before any presentation i make notes using atom because of its simple and useful tools and user interface . from gathering requirement to developing the system a lot things come in between and i use atom to make notes of it.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 02, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Shwetank S. avatar
Shwetank S.
Software Engineer
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"ATOM:- an open source best tool"
What do you like best about Atom?

i like the way we can customise the theme in atom. its integrated with git so pushing changes on some remote place is an advantage. you will get the suggestions for autocomplete that's quite impressive. you can search , replace, navigate to diff words through ui. in my opinion its best tool i use it for my personal note making tool while attending the meetings.

What do you dislike about Atom?

it takes a lot of time while starting and performance is bit slow.it uses high memory while running on the system. there is a lots of competitors of atom which are doing quite better than atom.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

i prepare notes through atom while attending the meetings.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 10, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Vaibhav K.
Founder
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"Great open source, collaborating, customizable code editor."
What do you like best about Atom?

It is open-source, free to use, and has many good plugins and extensions. Also, it has excellent developers' support and an active community to learn and work with. It has a collaboration feature to work with teammates and is easy to understand and use.

What do you dislike about Atom?

It is easy to use only after one understands and learns how to use it, it has not had sufficient features, and its support is good, but updates to the software are not regular. Otherwise a good editor for anyone who uses it.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps make code in a customizable environment and has provided community support which helps in learning. It is perfect for growth, offers many extensions and plugins to use in principles, and is free and open source, so secure and does not need to pay.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 27, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Akshay N. avatar
Akshay N.
Cognitive Implementation Engineer ( Conversational Ai )
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"The Best Editor I have ever Used"
What do you like best about Atom?

It has remote collaboration , customisation and source code integration .

What do you dislike about Atom?

Ease of use and documentation is little poor

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has GitHub integration which is the best part and very helpful for developers

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 13, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
duncan b. avatar
Duncan B.
Software Developer
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"The small (but powerful and customizable) code editor"
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom has been useful for me in the past years for multiple reasons, its fast, easy to customize and you can open big projects without a hassle. I work a lot with databases myself and get send a lot of CSV files, its not uncommon for me to have to edit those, which can also be quickly done trough Atom. We also use it for our regular code of course, it was so lovely to find you can edit your syntax with different colors and themes. In the years of use we also added a lot of plugins that significantly improved our use of Atom.

What do you dislike about Atom?

Honestly i myself dont dislike anything about Atom. The only thing for me was the start of using Atom, it was a bit complicated at first because you have so many options you can trigger to make it your own. No complaints! :)

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atom has helped solve a lot of problems, the easy editing of text files, working fast and efficiently with the integrated Git plugin. And because its so simple to use all our new coworkers got used to it really quick!

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 08, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AC
Aditya C.
Assistant Consultant Business Analyst
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"Best text editor for 21st century"
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom is the best text editor that has supported multiple programming languages. It's user-interface makes it more easy to use and collaborate with colleagues. The navigation through multiple files and folders makes it more dynamic.

What do you dislike about Atom?

I don't dislike anything about Atom. It has provided every feature that a single text-editor can provide to a programmer at college level.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atom is the best text editor that I have used for implementing static HTML based websites. I have used it throughout my graduation for academic purposes. It has helped me a lot in terms of productivity.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 19, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SG
Sumit G.
Frontend Developer
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"A good ediotor for web developement but not the best."
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom has a very simple GUI developed by GitHub, so it has a built-in git feature. It provides a decent amount of extensions and plugins to add more features for your convenience.

What do you dislike about Atom?

Atom does provide a very limited number of extensions, whereas VScode offers a vast number of extensions and customization. Atom is slower than some other text editors, and when you add more extensions and plugins, it worsens.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a good text editor for someone who dislikes too many extensions, customization and adding on features. It has built-in git feature, which is very helpful while working on more significant projects.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 30, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SN
Simmi N.
Senior System Engineer
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"Content -Text editor"
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom provides remote collaboration so by two people can code on the same panel. The integration of source code is awesome. highly customizable platform. the open source extension and support are greater. it supports markup languages too.

What do you dislike about Atom?

It required a lot of time to start. managing plugin becomes cumbersome. find difficulty in the documentation. create an issue in GIT support. UI increases the level of difficulty, need to improve UI. Packages should be more advanced.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a system developer, I use atoms to do code for my applications. I mainly use aton to collaborate on the code with my other team members. provide a variety of extensions to make my work easy. mainly I prefer atom for community coding . Markup language support helps me to work with CSS code.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 18, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
TG
Tolga G.
Software Support
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"Atom Feedback"
What do you like best about Atom?

It is really easy to work on it and write codes. I am learning html and css coding thanks to ATOM. I added my pages there and was able to edit them all.

What do you dislike about Atom?

The menu that we had at start, it was very confusing. I couldnot understand how to start a new project by using the instructions. But later, after trying all the tabs 1 by 1, I succeeded to understand which one was the correct one.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me write html codes and css codes.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 28, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Jackson I. avatar
Jackson I.
Data Analytics Developer
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"Atom is the most flexible editor out there."
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom simplifies coding, and its amount of modifications and themes is unparalleled. It is excellent that you can alter every aspect of your workstation and complete tasks efficiently.

What do you dislike about Atom?

The portable version does not support automatic updates, so you must manually check the performance.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Atom is my preferred editor since I can update files directly from such a platform when I modify or correct errors in GitHub-hosted corporate projects. Additionally, it features a variety of attractive themes and plugins that make coding simple.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 24, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Nicolette D. avatar
Nicolette D.
Head Web Developer/ Co Owner
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"Atom is the IDE I learned how to program on!"
What do you like best about Atom?

The vast array of plugins and extra features make programming in any language easier. It is such a versatile IDE that you can program in several different computer programming languages.

What do you dislike about Atom?

The first load up tends to be RAM heavy and CPU heavy, so it tends to give a false "program not responding message." I would love it if it was streamlined a little and maybe made so it loads certain functions to make it more responsive in the beginning.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Atom to perform all of my programming needs. It helps me program quickly and concisely because the linter plugins and the beautify plugins make my code nicely organized and readable. I am currently using it write javascript and creating a crawler.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Apr 24, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Pranav J. avatar
Pranav J.
Digital Specialist Engineer
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"Atom - The most beginner friendly editor"
What do you like best about Atom?

The best thing I like about atom is how beginner-friendly it is, with a very simple interface and no new keyboard shortcuts to learn for a simple use case. What I loved is that I could find many extensions nearly for every use case that I had, be it syntax highlighting for languages, dynamic linting, debuggers and even music controls. Even I can make my customized theme in Atom if one is good with CSS.

What do you dislike about Atom?

I feel that Atom starts showing response issues when working on large text-based projects. When I try to use the search feature it is a bit slow. I found sublime text to be more efficient when working with text-based projects.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used Atom for a lot of projects, be it HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java or Python. I feel that language support extensions make it easier to work with anything within Atom. Atom has built-in integrated support for git and GitHub which is an added advantage.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 16, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Paras R. avatar
Paras R.
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"Extremely useful editor"
What do you like best about Atom?

It is free, flexible, and can be customized. I very much like its interface.

What do you dislike about Atom?

It does not have autocorrect features and sometimes startup is slow. But overall I like it very much.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solved many problems. I had a project that required me to have a number of lines in the document exactly the same as the base documents. It was a serious problem. I tried many editors but his one solved this perfectly.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 23, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AS
Anmol S.
Software Engineer
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"The best free IDE for Python"
What do you like best about Atom?

The users do not need to speed a single penny for using this software. It has a lot of customizable potentials which can be used to mold the software according to your requirements. It is a lightweight software that takes almost no time to boot up.

What do you dislike about Atom?

It is not my first choice for working on large projects as it lags and sometimes crashes when doing so. It does not have a large collection of plugins for you to add. It does not have self-correction feature which other IDEs do have.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Atom as an IDE for Python only to work on small projects or to make some changes on already completed projects. It provides you with a lot of shortcuts, thereby increasing your efficiency.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 13, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MC
Manish C.
Professional Data Entry Freelancer
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"Atom is a best and Free IDE for developers"
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom IDE is a free and open-source text editor that is based on the Electron programming language, It currently supports JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, PHP, and Flow, and will add support for additional languages in the near future. It is also capable of deep syntactical analysis, which allows it to offer comprehensive coding assistance.

What do you dislike about Atom?

The thing I don't like about this program the most is its slow speed. It can run large amounts of code but it is slower than other IDEs like Sublime text and Vs code. Therefore, it would be better if the IDE is smaller so it can run faster.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Among the many features of Atom IDE, the most useful is the support for multiple programming languages. The IDE is open source, which means that the community can help improve it and make it even better. It also has a GitHub integration, which makes it easy for you to manage your projects and stay on top of your latest code changes. It also allows you to install packages that are essential for your development. These packages are free to download and install, which is another major advantage of Atom.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 27, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
KR
Kusam Ganesh R.
Student
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"Best IDE especially for coders"
What do you like best about Atom?

After the experience of using atom for one year, I can assure you that atom is one of the best code editors, the UI of the atom is really awesome and gives a very cool coding experience. Especially for languages like python this is the best.

What do you dislike about Atom?

There is nothing to dislike from the atom. It is so perfect that there are not many changes to be suggested and no dislikes which can be provided. Extensions can be a bit be improvised.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

The auto-filling feature which it has makes it more unique than many other IDE, the color differentiation of the code is so good which also follows indentation, which is the most significant benefit. The color differentiation helps us know whether the code written by us is right or wrong.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 24, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Atharva S. avatar
Atharva S.
Chief Executive Officer
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"best code editor for bignner"
What do you like best about Atom?

It has many packages and themes. It is easy to use, remarkably creative design, which makes us very productive and gives us relief while writing a code. The GitHub package is already available on the Atom website. The one feature I like is that we can open single, whole, or multiple projects simultaneously. It is free, not like other paid software, and provides premium service.

What do you dislike about Atom?

It takes time to launch. Files get lost when the system crashes. Sometimes the plugin doesn't work or stops working. But if we restart the application, then it works.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

The benefits are too many as I can write code very quickly and mean full. The UI is exellent, which provides a suitable environment for the user. Many projects are uploaded on the website by the best creators.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 22, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Nandu V. avatar
Nandu V.
Software Developer
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"One of the best env for codeing"
What do you like best about Atom?

Atom makes my coding easy. the build-in terminal access is liked most because i am coding in laravel project it wants terminal access more and so atom provides build-in terminal so that i can access the terminal in the editor don't want to switch between normal terminal in windows. its just one example a lot more remote functions are also available in atom so that we can easily host our edited files to server on one click

What do you dislike about Atom?

Takes a bit of time to start the editor. Other wise no problem

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

creating custom applications in laravel frame work and accessing terminal with in the edior

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 03, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Sumit  B. avatar
Sumit B.
Computer Software Engineer
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"Best editor on web today!"
What do you like best about Atom?

The features that i liked the most are: - it is a completely free editor which does not effect one's pocket. -It is able to handle large data without slowing down and it is highly customizable also. -Atom provides good syntax highlighting. Also, it supports multiple language. These features make this editor one of the best in the market.

What do you dislike about Atom?

The drawbacks which i will point down are 1) it's documentation and plugin can be more discoverable. 2) it sometimes feels that it is not working with notebook 3) The performance which I get does not match as expected. 4) it is difficult for a beginner to use with ease. These drawbacks makes this a little disappointing.

What problems is Atom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can solve many problems with atom text editor like ~ as it has autocompletion feature which completes syntax errors. ~ i am impressed with its GIT integration as it can control all my files and data easily. ~ atom can work effectively with different encoding files which other's cannot perform with equal ease. ~ it helped to reduce my workload by 20%. These are some features by which i rate atom text editor higher than its competitors.