Bluefish vs Nova
Bluefish
bluefish.sourceforge.io
Nova
nova.appSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | Nova |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $4.08/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · PHP IDEs | 8.1 (#10) | 8.2 (#8) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 7.3 (#42) | 7.9 (#29) |
| Remote files | Using gvfs, Bluefish supports remote files over FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS, and other protocols. | Nova can browse, edit, manage, and publish files directly to remote servers. |
| Support | Community and support are volunteer-run through a mailing list and bug tracker; the project says commercial support can be requested by contacting its project manager. | Nova support documentation is available in the Nova Library, which provides a contact support link. |
Plans
Nova
- Nova license$99 a month
- License renewal$49 a year
- Nova license renewal$49 a year
- Nova$99, paid once
In their own words
Bluefish
Bluefish is a free, open-source desktop editor for programmers and web developers writing websites, scripts and programming code. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows and supports more than 30 markup and programming languages. The multi-document interface can open 1,000 or more documents, with more than 10,000 tested simultaneously. Editing tools include regular-expression search and replace, code folding, auto-completion and automatic tag closing. Project support restores settings for each project. Through gvfs, Bluefish works with remote files over FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, CIFS and other protocols. Users can connect external programs such as make, lint, weblint, xmllint, tidy and javac, or run custom programs and scripts. The Flatpak build has strict security restrictions that block integration with some system tools and the web browser, although internal functionality works. Community support is volunteer-run through a mailing list and bug tracker. Bluefish is released under the GNU GPL license.