Kate vs NuSphere PhpED
Kate
kate-editor.org
NuSphere PhpED
nusphere.comSide by side
| Figure | Kate | NuSphere PhpED |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · PHP IDEs | 8.3 (#6) | 8.0 (#13) |
| Platforms | The download page provides installation options for Linux, Windows and macOS, including nightly packages. | PhpED is offered for Windows; NuSphere describes running it on Mac or Linux using Wine or Parallels, with some IDE functions unavailable under Wine. |
| Product | Kate is a text editor for viewing and editing text files. | PhpED is an integrated development environment for PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Smarty, XHTML, and other languages. |
| Support | Kate support is offered through its KDE Discuss section, Matrix channel and KDE bug tracker. | The Professional license includes one year of web-based technical support and free upgrades to major versions; the Personal license includes one year of upgrades and updates. |
Plans
NuSphere PhpED
- PhpED Personal$81, paid once
- PhpED Professional$129, paid once
- PhpED Team4$387, paid once
In their own words
Kate
Kate is a free text editor for viewing and editing text files on Linux, macOS and Windows. It can show multiple documents in horizontally or vertically split windows, and supports multi-cursor and column editing. For code and other structured text, Kate provides syntax highlighting for over 400 languages, bracket matching and on-the-fly spell checking. Programming tools include auto-completion with argument hints, scriptable auto-indentation and Vi input mode; the editor uses the Language Server Protocol for auto-completion in many languages. Search and replace handles regular expressions, multiline searches, open files and files on disk. Listed plugins include an embedded terminal, SQL, build, GDB and Replace in Files tools. Kate can open remote files and supports Unicode and other encodings. Backups on save and swap files can help recover data after a system crash. The editor is free, and its listed plan describes it as available for Linux, Windows and macOS. Nightly packages are compiled daily, but may be unstable or incomplete and are recommended for testing.
NuSphere PhpED
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.