Altova XMLSpy vs Bluefish
Altova XMLSpy
altova.comBluefish
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| Figure | Altova XMLSpy | Bluefish |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.4 (#24) | 8.7 (#10) |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 1992 | 1998 |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Intended users | Altova describes XMLSpy as a professional development IDE for developers working with XML, JSON, schemas, transformations, XBRL, SOAP, and related technologies. | The project describes Bluefish as targeted toward programmers and web developers. |
| Platforms | XMLSpy's primary platform is Windows; Altova says it runs on macOS using Parallels. | The download page lists Linux packages and installers for Windows 64-bit and Mac OSX; it also provides a Linux Flatpak. |
| Support | Altova provides XMLSpy online and PDF manuals, and its company page lists a technical support form. | The volunteer-run project offers community and support mailing lists, directs bug reports to its bug tracker, and lists commercial support by contacting the project. |
| Supported platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux | Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. |
Plans
Altova XMLSpy
- ProfessionalPrice not published
- EnterprisePrice not published
- XMLSpy Professional XML Editor$679, paid once
- XMLSpy Enterprise XML Editor$1,099, paid once
In their own words
Altova XMLSpy
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Bluefish
Bluefish is a free, open-source desktop editor for programmers and web developers. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and supports more than 30 markup and programming languages. The editor is designed for websites, scripts, and programming code, with project support for working across multiple projects while restoring each project’s settings. Bluefish can load and save remote files through FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, and CIFS via gvfs. Editing tools include regular-expression search and replace, snippets, unlimited undo and redo, crash recovery for modified documents, code folding, bracket and tag highlighting, autocompletion, and automatic tag closing for many languages. It can open more than 1,000 documents, with the features page reporting tests above 10,000 simultaneously. External programs and custom scripts can be integrated. The official Flatpak’s strict security blocks some system-tool and browser integrations.