CodeRunner vs Kate
CodeRunner
coderunnerapp.com
Kate
kate-editor.orgSide by side
| Figure | CodeRunner | Kate |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $15/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · Code editors | 7.5 (#41) | 8.5 (#10) |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Supported platforms | macos | The download page provides installation options for Linux, Windows and macOS, including nightly packages. |
| Privacy | The App Store distributed application does not collect or store user data, according to its privacy policy. | KDE says its software generally does not transfer information from users’ devices except after explicit user action; any telemetry is opt-in and disabled by default. |
| Product | CodeRunner is a lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for macOS. | Kate is a text editor for viewing and editing text files. |
| Support | Users can contact support through a website form, recover a license, and access help topics in the app's Help menu. | Kate support is offered through its KDE Discuss section, Matrix channel and KDE bug tracker. |
Plans
CodeRunner
- Personal License$22.99 a month
- Site License$15 a month
- Site License$15, paid once
- Personal License$22.99, paid once
In their own words
CodeRunner
CodeRunner has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Kate
Kate is a free text editor for viewing and editing text files on Linux, macOS and Windows. It can show multiple documents in horizontally or vertically split windows, and supports multi-cursor and column editing. For code and other structured text, Kate provides syntax highlighting for over 400 languages, bracket matching and on-the-fly spell checking. Programming tools include auto-completion with argument hints, scriptable auto-indentation and Vi input mode; the editor uses the Language Server Protocol for auto-completion in many languages. Search and replace handles regular expressions, multiline searches, open files and files on disk. Listed plugins include an embedded terminal, SQL, build, GDB and Replace in Files tools. Kate can open remote files and supports Unicode and other encodings. Backups on save and swap files can help recover data after a system crash. The editor is free, and its listed plan describes it as available for Linux, Windows and macOS. Nightly packages are compiled daily, but may be unstable or incomplete and are recommended for testing.