Espresso vs Geany
Espresso
espressoapp.comGeany
geany.orgSide by side
| Figure | Espresso | Geany |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $119/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.0 (#44) | 8.7 (#9) |
| Spec score · Code editors | 8.0 (#26) | 8.6 (#8) |
| Build system | Dynamo is Espresso’s built-in build infrastructure and supports SCSS, LESS, and Markdown and HTML imports and templates. | Its build system can compile and execute code through external tools. |
| Extension support | The listed plug-ins and syntax themes are not officially supported; the maker directs feature requests to their authors. | Yes |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Product | Espresso is a web editor for Mac for writing, coding, designing, building, and publishing websites. | Geany describes itself as a small and lightweight integrated development environment. |
| Support | The maker offers documentation and email support at [email protected]. | The project directs users with build errors to its mailing list or one of the authors. |
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In their own words
Geany
Geany is a free, lightweight integrated development environment for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides syntax highlighting, code completion, call tips, and code folding for languages and file types including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, and Pascal. An embedded terminal emulator is included, and plugins can extend the editor. Geany supports macro recording and column editing, but not multi-cursor editing. The project distributes it under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Linux, BSD, and similar systems are directed toward distribution packages, including packages named for Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Prebuilt Windows and macOS binaries are available from geany.org, along with links to additional third-party packages and a portable Windows version. Building from source requires GTK3 libraries and headers, dependency libraries, and C and C++ compilers. Geany has no free trial because the listed plan is free.