The main purpose of Brackets is its live HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing functionality.

The update introduced new features such as custom shortcut key combinations and more accurate JavaScript hinting.

With release of version 1.0, Adobe announced a feature that extracts design information from a PSD file for convenience of coding in CSS.

A developer can alter features on Brackets and personalize it for one's own convenience by forking the software code.

[13] Adobe officially dropped support for Brackets on September 1, 2021 and recommended users migrate to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code.

[17] Phoenix is a fork of Brackets targeting web browsers, as opposed to being a native application.

Brackets supports codes from multiple file types from C++, C, VBScript to Java, JavaScript, HTML, Python, Perl and Ruby.

Brackets integrates Theseus, an open-source JavaScript debugger that enables developers to set break points, step through code, and inspect the value of variables in real time.

Being built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, developers can provide additional functionality to Brackets by creating extensions.