BBEdit vs CudaText

BBEdit is a text and HTML editor for writers, web authors, and software developers using macOS. Its tools include grep pattern matching, multi-file search and replace, syntax coloring, function navigation, code folding, and text completion. For web authoring, it provides HTML markup tools, standards-based syntax checking, and live previews of HTML and Markdown documents. A license adds Git and Subversion support, and licensed users can create in-app worksheets to converse with ChatGPT, Claude, and Ollama. Workflow options include AppleScript, macOS Unix scripting, Automator, Xcode as an external editor, and the Language Server Protocol. BBEdit can open and save text files on FTP and SFTP servers. Free Mode continues after the 30-day evaluation period, though some advanced features require a paid license. The listed BBEdit 16 Individual plan costs $59.99 as a one-time purchase. BBEdit 16 requires macOS 14.0 or later and supports Intel and Apple silicon Macs; Bare Bones says there are no Windows or Linux versions.

CudaText is a cross-platform text editor written in Object Pascal, with builds listed for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides syntax highlighting for more than 300 languages, along with code folding, multiple carets and selections, regular-expression find and replace, and customizable hotkeys. A code tree can show functions and classes when the lexer supports them, and a fuzzy-matching command palette helps with command navigation. Its binary and hex viewer supports files of unlimited size; the site says it can display 10 GB logs. HTML and CSS tools include smart auto-completion, HTML tag completion through the Snippets plugin, and in-editor image display. Python add-ons can supply plugins, linters, code tree parsers, and external tools. Listed plugin features include LSP support, project and session managers, an FTP panel, spell checking, and formatters. Configuration files use JSON and can include lexer-specific settings. CudaText is free, with no free trial listed, and the project license is MPL-2.0.