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Geany

Geany is a text editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: syntax highlighting and code completion.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Geany is a text editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: syntax highlighting and code completion.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Syntax highlighting” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Code completion” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Embedded terminal emulation” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Geany is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

A versatile IDE with extensive support for the most popular languages, with its entire catalog of plugins already installed, allowing you to easily manage its features using its plugin manager. Geany includes the following features: Syntax highlighting Code completion Auto completion of often used constructs like if, for and while Auto completion of XML and HTML tags Call tips Code folding Many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal Symbol lists Embedded terminal emulation Extensibility through plugins

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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