Kate

Kate

KDE
Nova

Nova

Panic
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About

Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files. Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like. Kate supports highlighting for over 300 languages making it easier to read code in almost all programming languages. Kate also understands how brackets works and will help you navigate inside complex code blocks hierarchies. On-the-fly spellchecking is also included and will help you check your text before publishing. Work on multiple files at the same time with split views. Use the project sidebar to navigate your project directory structures and use Kate's smart tabs to quickly access your recently opened documents.

About

If we're being honest, Mac apps are a bit of a lost art. There are great reasons to make cross-platform apps — to start, they're cross-platform — but it's just not who we are. Founded as a Mac software company in 1997, our joy at Panic comes from building things that feel truly, well, Mac-like. Long ago, we created Coda, an all-in-one Mac web editor that broke new ground. But when we started work on Nova, we looked at where the web was today, and where we needed to be. It was time for a fresh start. It all starts with our first-class text-editor. It's new, hyper-fast, and flexible, with all the features you want: smart autocomplete, multiple cursors, a Minimap, editor overscroll, tag pairs and brackets, and way, way more. For the curious, Nova has built-in support for CoffeeScript, CSS, Diff, ERB, Haml, HTML, INI, JavaScript, JSON, JSX, Less, Lua, Markdown, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Sass, SCSS, Smarty, SQL, TSX, TypeScript, XML, and YAML.

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Content creators and programmers in search of a solution to view and edit all their text files

Audience

Developers that write code on Mac

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 1.0 / 5
ease 1.0 / 5
features 1.0 / 5
design 1.0 / 5
support 1.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It's free and open-source, extremely fast start-up times, uses very little memory, and surprisingly customizable (I barely did any myself though; I wanted to keep it light). I find it useful for swiftly taking notes at a moment's notice, but I have also used it to quickly peek through config files, source code, or even certain text documents--they all just work. As a user who swaps between Windows and Linux, it being cross-platform is such a huge plus for me, and is the leading reason why I use it over Notepad++. As much as I like tinkering with software and hardware alike, I also don't want to find out that certain features I use regularly on one OS's notepad don't exist on other OS's notepads, even some third-party ones. It's just some peace of mind.

Cons

  • It lags for ~1 sec when it wraps text for the first time since the app was opened. Even after using this app for over a year, I still find the logo hard to identify as a text editor of any kind. I still have to tell people who borrow my laptop that my notepad app is this, even when it's pinned to the taskbar and start menu.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • i cant say that i like it or it is likable or that anyone would like it or that its likable.

Cons

  • First off (Download a torrent of Nova and use that. It is not worth a 100 dollars and a bigger reason why is that not only do you have to pay 100 dollars to start , you dont get free updates. You have to pay for those yearly!! Second Reason, they are deceptive with theirmarketing the edtior as if its some grand piece of eye candy! The themes that are available and im not joking 90%of themlookthrown together and look terrible. You would sware that whoever wrote the them was colorblind. How do you put #fe65df over a bright blue background and think that looks good!! And the syntax highlighting system is css based and DOES NOT support semantic tokens period. They have no live preview, themes are hard to learn to build and dont do the syntxthe right justice.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

KDE
Founded: 1996
Germany
kate-editor.org

Company Information

Panic
United States
nova.app/

Alternatives

Emacs

Emacs

GNU

Alternatives

BBEdit

BBEdit

Bare Bones Software, Inc.
Pulsar

Pulsar

Pulsar-Edit
Koi Editor

Koi Editor

Hackerman, Inc.
TextMate

TextMate

MacroMates
Atom

Atom

GitHub

Categories

Code Editors Supported
HTML Editors Supported
Markdown Editors Supported
Text Editors Supported
XML Editors Supported

Categories

Code Editors Supported
HTML Editors Supported
JSON Editors Supported
Markdown Editors Supported
Text Editors Supported

Integrations

HTML Supported
SQL Supported
XML Supported
C Supported
C# Supported
C++ Supported
CSS Not Supported
JSON Not Supported
JavaScript Not Supported
Less Not Supported
Lua Not Supported
Markdown Not Supported
PHP Not Supported
Perl Not Supported
Qt Supported
Racket Supported
Ruby Not Supported
TSX Not Supported
TypeScript Not Supported
YAML Not Supported

Integrations

HTML Supported
SQL Supported
XML Supported
C Not Supported
C# Not Supported
C++ Not Supported
CSS Supported
JSON Supported
JavaScript Supported
Less Supported
Lua Supported
Markdown Supported
PHP Supported
Perl Supported
Qt Not Supported
Racket Not Supported
Ruby Supported
TSX Supported
TypeScript Supported
YAML Supported
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