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Greenfoot

Educational Java IDE for beginners with support for graphics, animation and sound.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Greenfoot is a code editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described on its official website and in its Wikipedia article: 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
  • “Educational Java IDE for beginners with support for graphics, animation and sound” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “The interface is a full IDE which includes project management, auto-completion, syntax highlighting, and other tools common to most IDEs.” — official page, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Greenfoot is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+ WITH Classpath-exception-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
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Greenfoot is an integrated development environment using Java or Stride designed primarily for educational purposes at the high school and undergraduate level. It allows easy development of two-dimensional graphical applications, such as simulations and interactive games.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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