Geany vs gedit
Geany
geany.orggedit
gedit-text-editor.orgSide by side
| Figure | Geany | gedit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Text Editors | 8.7 (#9) | 8.2 (#29) |
| Editing features | Its listed features include syntax highlighting, code completion, call tips, and code folding. | Features include regular-expression search and replace, spell-checking, word auto-completion, auto-indentation, line numbers, and text wrapping. |
| Extension support | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Licensing | The project says Geany is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. | The product is released under Free/Libre Open Source software licenses; gedit plugins need to be distributed under the GPL license. |
| Linux installation | Linux and BSD users are advised to install distribution packages, which can receive updates through the package manager. | On Linux, gedit and gedit-plugins can be installed from a distribution’s packages or from Flathub. |
| Plugins | Functionality can be extended through plugins. | A flexible plugin system can add features, with listed plugins for bookmarks, document statistics, file browsing, modelines, sorting, spell-checking, and other tasks. |
| Supported platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux | Linux,macOS,Windows |
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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.