Bluefish vs Textastic
Bluefish
bluefish.openoffice.nlTextastic
textasticapp.comSide by side
| Figure | Bluefish | Textastic |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 7 |
| Spec score · Editor Software | 8.8 (#2) | 8.0 (#19) |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#10) | 8.3 (#28) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.5 (#12) | 8.1 (#24) |
| Editing tools | Features include regular-expression search and replace, snippets, unlimited undo and redo, and crash recovery for modified documents. | The iOS app offers code completion, search and replace with regular expressions, web and Markdown preview, and a JavaScript console. |
| Editor type | desktop | desktop |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Language support | Supports 30+ markup and programming languages. | It supports syntax highlighting for more than 80 programming and markup languages. |
| Platforms | The download page lists Linux packages and installers for Windows 64-bit and Mac OSX; it also provides a Linux Flatpak. | macos,ios |
| Remote development | 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. | The maker provides email support at [email protected] and says it retains support emails indefinitely to help resolve inquiries and identify patterns. |
| What it does | Bluefish is a lightweight editor for programmers and web developers to write websites, scripts, and programming code. | Textastic is a text and code editor for iPad and iPhone with syntax highlighting, remote file transfer, and SSH. |
Plans
Textastic
- Monthly subscriptionPrice not published
- Annual subscriptionPrice not published
- One-time purchasePrice not published
- Textastic Pro (Monthly)$2.99 a month
- Textastic for Mac$9.99, paid once
- Textastic Pro (Yearly)$19.99 a year
- Textastic Pro (One-Time)$69.99, 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.
Textastic
Textastic has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.