Geany vs NuSphere PhpED

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.

NuSphere PhpED is an integrated development environment for PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Smarty, XHTML, and other languages on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The editor supports PHP 5.3–8.4 with syntax highlighting, code folding, Unicode editing, search, and a diff viewer. Its debugger handles local and remote sessions, breakpoints, call stacks, variables, and parallel debugging. Performance Explorer offers sampling-based timeline, call-tree, flame-graph, and stack-chart views, alongside line-level profiling. Deployment supports FTP, FTPS, SSH/SFTP, WebDAV, and Windows Share. The database client works with SQLite, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and InterBase. Integrations include PHPUnit, jQuery, extJS, Tortoise SVN, Tortoise CVS, PHP Documentor, HTML Tidy, Code Formatter, HTML Validator, and a CVS client. NuSphere offers a free, fully functional 14-day PhpED 23.0 trial. Personal costs $81, paid once, Professional $129, paid once, and Team4 $387, paid once for four licenses. Professional includes one year of support and major-version upgrades.