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Altova XMLSpy vs Geany

Altova XMLSpy

altova.com

Geany

geany.org

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FigureAltova XMLSpyGeany
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYes—
Open source—Yes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
Plans published41
Spec score · Text Editors8.4 (#24)8.7 (#9)
Extension supportYesYes
Free planNoYes
SupportAltova provides XMLSpy online and PDF manuals, and its company page lists a technical support form.The project directs users with build errors to its mailing list or one of the authors.
Supported platformsWindows,macOS,LinuxWindows,macOS,Linux

Plans

Altova XMLSpy

  • ProfessionalPrice not published
  • EnterprisePrice not published
  • XMLSpy Professional XML Editor$679, paid once
  • XMLSpy Enterprise XML Editor$1,099, paid once

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Geany

  • GeanyFree

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Altova XMLSpy

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Geany

Geany is a free, lightweight integrated development environment for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides syntax highlighting, code completion, call tips, and code folding for languages and file types including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, and Pascal. An embedded terminal emulator is included, and plugins can extend the editor. Geany supports macro recording and column editing, but not multi-cursor editing. The project distributes it under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Linux, BSD, and similar systems are directed toward distribution packages, including packages named for Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Prebuilt Windows and macOS binaries are available from geany.org, along with links to additional third-party packages and a portable Windows version. Building from source requires GTK3 libraries and headers, dependency libraries, and C and C++ compilers. Geany has no free trial because the listed plan is free.

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