| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.1 (#40) | 9.0 (#4) |
| Column editing | Yes | Yes |
| Editing | It supports line numbers, jumping to a specific line, selection highlighting, and column selection. | It provides content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types. |
| Large-file handling | Yes | Yes |
| License | The GitHub repository identifies FeatherPad as licensed under GPL-3.0. | GNU Emacs is free software distributed under conditions of the GNU General Public License. |
| Supported platforms | Linux,macOS | GNU/Linux, BSDs, Haiku, Windows, macOS, and Android. |