Kate vs Rapid PHP Editor
Kate
kate-editor.org
Rapid PHP Editor
rapidphpeditor.comSide by side
| Figure | Kate | Rapid PHP Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · PHP IDEs | 8.3 (#6) | 7.1 (#20) |
| Plugins | Listed plugins include an embedded terminal, SQL, build, GDB and Replace in Files plugins. | Users can add features with plugins written in JScript, and the site lists a plugin catalog. |
| Product | Kate is a text editor for viewing and editing text files. | Rapid PHP is a Windows code editor that combines PHP IDE features with the speed of a lightweight editor and supports PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web development languages. |
Plans
Rapid PHP Editor
- Rapid PHP 2025 Personal$59.95, paid once
- Rapid PHP 2025$79.95, paid once
- Rapid PHP 2025 Team License$179.95, 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.
Rapid PHP Editor
Rapid PHP Editor has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.