As Critical Hybrid Edition volumes contain an extensive genetic component, they are sometimes characterized within a foreign context as “genetic” editions. The aim of the paper titled Text genetics and the Critical Hybrid Edition is thus to analyse how particular editions based on Critical Hybrid Editions match the criteria set for digital genetic editions. The introduction presents a brief summary of the domestic reception of genetic editions, but the paper’s synopsis for comparing the Critical Hybrid Edition with the digital genetic edition comprises the criteria formulated in a study by Paolo D’Iorio (2010), and also takes into account the way the genetic edition is understood by Dirk van Hulle (2016), or the way genetic digital editions are specifically compiled, e.g. as part of the Nietzsche Source Project or the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. The outcome is a sequence of distinctions between the Critical Hybrid Edition and the digital genetic edition concept, as well as a set of possible solutions that might be implemented in forthcoming Critical Hybrid Edition titles.