Bluefish vs Nextpad++
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nlNextpad++
nextpad.orgSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | Nextpad++ |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#10) | 7.9 (#48) |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| Founded | 1998 | 2026 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Intended users | The project describes Bluefish as targeted toward programmers and web developers. | The project describes its audience as users and developers familiar with Notepad++ who want its editor, shortcuts, plugins, and settings on macOS or Linux. |
| 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. | The maker directs support requests and bug reports to the macOS or Linux GitHub issue tracker. |
| Supported platforms | Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. | macOS,Linux |
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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.