Microsoft Editor vs Sublime Text

Microsoft Editor checks spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation, with additional suggestions for clarity, conciseness, and formality. It is available as a browser extension and in Word and Outlook, including Word for the web and the desktop app. Editor provides basic writing guidance in more than 20 languages and spelling suggestions in more than 80; users can spell-check up to three languages at once. Its similarity checker can find document content resembling online text and help cite the original source. A free grammar checker covers basic spelling and grammar, while premium features are included with Microsoft 365 and are not sold separately as Editor premium. Microsoft 365 Personal and Family offers on the Editor page include a free one-month trial. Personal costs $9.99 a month, billed monthly; Family costs $12.99 a month, billed monthly. For spelling and grammar checks in Edge, typed text is processed by a Microsoft cloud service and deleted afterward; Basic spellcheck in Edge checks locally instead.

Sublime Text is a text editor for code, markup, and prose on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Editing includes multi-cursor and column work, macro recording, large-file handling, tab multi-select, split views, Goto Anything, Goto Definition, and context-aware auto-completion. GPU rendering is supported on all three platforms, including resolutions up to 8K. The maker lists native Apple Silicon support and Linux ARM64 builds. Extensions can add plugins, syntax definitions, menus, and snippets, and a documented Python API supports plugin development such as LSP. The download page identifies Sublime Text 4, Build 4215, as the current release. The software can be downloaded and evaluated without an enforced time limit, but continued use requires a license. A Personal license costs $99 as a one-time purchase and includes three years of updates. Business licensing costs $65 per seat per year for the first 10 seats, with lower rates for larger tiers. The maker is based in Woollahra, Sydney, Australia.