Bluefish vs EditPad Lite
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nlEditPad Lite
editpadlite.comSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | EditPad Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 16 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#10) | 7.5 (#69) |
| File handling | Bluefish can open more than 1,000 documents, with the features page reporting tests above 10,000 documents simultaneously. | It supports large files and long lines, tabbed editing, and unlimited undo and redo across open files, including after saving. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Support | 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. | A licensed copy provides access to an in-software forum where Just Great Software says it checks unanswered support questions at least once daily. |
| Supported platforms | Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. | Windows |
Plans
EditPad Lite
- Single user licensePrice not published
- 5-user licensePrice not published
- 10-user licensePrice not published
- 20-user licensePrice not published
- 30-user licensePrice not published
- 50-user licensePrice not published
- 75-user licensePrice not published
- 100-user licensePrice not published
- EditPad Lite single user license£24.95, paid once
- EditPad Lite 5-user license£99.95, paid once
In their own words
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.
EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.