Nova vs NuSphere PhpED
Nova
nova.app
NuSphere PhpED
nusphere.comSide by side
| Figure | Nova | NuSphere PhpED |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4.08/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 3 |
| Spec score · PHP IDEs | 8.2 (#8) | 8.0 (#13) |
| Product | Nova is a full-featured, Mac-native code editor and IDE. | PhpED is an integrated development environment for PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Smarty, XHTML, and other languages. |
| Support | Nova support documentation is available in the Nova Library, which provides a contact support link. | 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. |
| Trial | Nova offers a free, full-featured trial for up to 30 days from launch. | NuSphere offers a 14-day fully functional PhpED 23.0 trial for free. |
Plans
Nova
- Nova license$99 a month
- License renewal$49 a year
- Nova license renewal$49 a year
- Nova$99, paid once
NuSphere PhpED
- PhpED Personal$81, paid once
- PhpED Professional$129, paid once
- PhpED Team4$387, paid once
In their own words
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.