Evcode vs Fresh
Evcode
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Fresh
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| Figure | Evcode | Fresh |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Rust IDEs | 7.1 (#12) | 8.0 (#6) |
| Editing | Editing features include multiple tabs, syntax highlighting, text selection, undo and redo, clipboard integration, and cursor navigation. | Features include multi-cursor editing, keyboard macros, Vim mode, regex search and replace, and project-wide search. |
| Language support | Built-in LSP support provides diagnostics, error highlighting, language awareness, and real-time feedback for languages with available LSP servers, including Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, and C++. | Fresh supports multiple language servers per language and lists configurations for Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Java, C/C++, and Ruby, among others. |
| Product | Evcode describes itself as a Rust terminal IDE for developers seeking a fast, focused alternative to heavyweight GUI editors. | Fresh is a modern terminal IDE and text editor designed to work alongside a full IDE and to drive coding agents. |
Plans
In their own words
Evcode
Evcode is a free, open-source Rust terminal IDE for macOS, built around terminal-first, keyboard-driven development and fast experimentation. Its editor provides multiple tabs, syntax highlighting, text selection, undo and redo, clipboard integration, and cursor navigation. Built-in LSP support can provide diagnostics, error highlighting, language awareness, and real-time feedback where an LSP server exists. Teleport is a fuzzy file finder for project navigation, while a file tree shows project structure. An integrated terminal runs commands for compiling, testing, or scripts, including Cargo, Python, Node, build systems, and shell commands. Ghost Snap stores a buffer snapshot in memory and mirrors it to a local path; Ghost Diff shows changes against that snapshot, and Ghost Rollback restores the last one. Evcode is MIT licensed. Installation is documented through Cargo, including `cargo install evcode`; the latest listed release is 1.0.0. The README reports approximately 7–10 MB of idle RAM usage.
Fresh
Fresh is a free, open-source terminal IDE and text editor designed to work alongside a full IDE and drive coding agents. Its Orchestrator gives each task its own Git worktree, tabs, terminals, and agent. Fresh can run terminal agents including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, or a command supplied by the user. Workspaces can run locally, over SSH, in Kubernetes, or in a dev container. Git review tools include hunk-level staging, unstaging, and discarding, side-by-side diffs, and notes exportable to Markdown. Editing features include multi-cursor support, keyboard macros, Vim mode, regex search and replace, and project-wide search. Fresh supports multiple language servers per language and lists configurations for Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Java, C/C++, and Ruby, among others. Its integrated terminal offers multiple tabs and split placement. The product page says Fresh can open multi-gigabyte files without blocking the interface. Plugins are written in TypeScript and run sandboxed inside Fresh’s single binary.