--- description: Learn more about Bluefish price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in South Africa. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Bluefish Price, Reviews & Features - Capterra South Africa 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Builder Software](/directory/30935/website-builder/software) > [Bluefish](/software/175980/bluefish) # Bluefish Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.za/software/175980/bluefish > On-premise open-source editing tool that enables script writing and editing through programming and markup languages. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 4 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Bluefish? Website building solution for programmers and developers with features such as GUI editing, multi-document interface, project support, automated setting restore, in-line spell checking and more. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 4 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Bluefish ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature - **Pricing Details**: Contact Bluefish for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Netherlands ## Features - Data Import/Export - Drag & Drop - Reporting/Analytics ## Category - [Website Builder Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30935/website-builder/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[uCoz Content Management](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/82808/ucoz-content-management) — 3.7/5 (45 reviews) ## Reviews ### "A starter free tool for HTML editing" — 5.0/5 > **Andrey** | *29 November 2019* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: My experience with Bluefish is that the tool is easy to work with it, my 5 years old computer was fine so I suppose the program don't need high hardware requirements. > > **Cons**: Currently I don't dislike anything about this product because it has the all functionality I was looking for. > > I use this software to edit my texts because it has so many tools. These tools are advanced and simple to use. ----- ### "Bluefish Text Editor: Not Just for Programmers, It Helps Me Write Better" — 4.0/5 > **Vernessa** | *17 August 2018* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: I've used a lot of text editors and website builders. Bluefish compares favorably with those I consider the best. Although it touts itself as being "for experienced web designers and programmers," your experience level doesn't matter that much. What matters is how you plan to use it. I'm not a programmer, CSS expert or a design geek. I'm more of a writer and web technology consultant so my use of Bluefish is as an extension to my article writing tools and to do super simple edits to style sheets and web pages. What I like most about Bluefish as a text editor is it gives me the option of opening several text documents all at once in different tabs. I can also take those multiple files and group them together in a "project." That becomes a big deal when I need to work on these same files again in the future -- I can just select that project and Bluefish will open all the files at the same time in their own tab. Even though I use the web design features less than the pure text editing features, I'm glad Bluefish provides an entire menu of options that make web design life easier. For example, I've used features from the lists, tables, forms, and CSS dialogs. > > **Cons**: On occasion, Bluefish chokes when I have too many text files open (think in excess of 10), which is kind of understandable. And it can choke if the file has in excess of 50k lines. The developers ought to pay attention to these issues because many programs have tens of thousands of lines of code and a project is likely to have more than 10 files open at one time. (That's the beauty of having tabs, afterall.) > > One very important reason I use a text editor is to help me write. Although it has tons of features for a text editor, the buttons, menus and dialogs stay out of the way and provide a distraction-free place to put down the words. Bluefish remains one of my favorite go-to editors (and has been since I discovered it 10+ years ago). In fact, I wrote this review using it\! I use it on both Windows and Linux platforms and it works about the same on both. ----- ### "Handy Editor for Development" — 3.0/5 > **Anil** | *20 June 2022* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Bluefish is handy tool for editoring your code and analyze them for your code editing system. It is easy to use while programming your code and understand your code. > > **Cons**: Bluefish is handy tool but it does not offer important feature, you have to use other kind of platforms to code your programme in better way. > > I used Bluefish for my website editoring to understand HTML codes, it is handy and fast but it does not offer good valuable features. ----- ### "Intuitive and powerful text editor" — 5.0/5 > **Abigail** | *14 December 2019* | Gambling & Casinos | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: How east it is to learn howbto use this product is what I like most. I did not fiddle with the default settings as it is perfectly fine for me. > > **Cons**: I really can't say any cons but maybe except that proprietary advanced text editors are probably more powerful than this. > > I am not a professional programmer but I only write for fun (as a hobby). I notice that I could write faster using this product and hence, tend to create more content. ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/175980/bluefish) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data