AppTools Regex Tester comparisons
AppTools Regex Tester is compared head-to-head with regex101, RegexPilot and RegexStudio and more: 7 head-to-heads in Regular Expression Testers, each with the specs and prices we checked.
AppTools Regex Tester head-to-head
- AppTools Regex Tester vs regex101
- AppTools Regex Tester vs RegexPilot
- AppTools Regex Tester vs RegexStudio
- AppTools Regex Tester vs RegexCraft
- AppTools Regex Tester vs Debuggex
- AppTools Regex Tester vs RegexBuddy
- AppTools Regex Tester vs Regex Tester Pro
AppTools Regex Tester vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Regex flavors | Pattern explanation | Step-through debugger | Code generation | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | AppTools Regex Tester | Yes | None | JavaScript, PCRE (PHP), Python, Go | Yes | Yes | — | 6.8 |
| 1 | regex101 | Yes | — | PCRE2 (PHP), JavaScript, Python, Golang, Java, .NET, Rust, POSIX ERE, POSIX BRE, PCRE (Legacy) | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.8 |
| 2 | RegexPilot | Yes | — | JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Go, Perl, Rust, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, Clojure, Elixir, R, Dart, Swift, MySQL, PostgreSQL, POSIX shell | Yes | No | Yes | 8.5 |
| 3 | RegexStudio | Yes | None | JavaScript, PCRE, Python, Java, Go, .NET, Rust, Ruby | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.2 |
| 4 | RegexCraft | Yes | — | .NET, PCRE2, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, Rust, Perl, Kotlin, Swift | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.2 |
| 5 | Debuggex | Yes | — | JavaScript, Python, PCRE | Yes | Yes | Yes | 7.7 |
| 6 | RegexBuddy | No | — | 94 flavors, including PCRE, PCRE2, .NET, JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Boost, RE2, ICU, and POSIX BRE/ERE | Yes | Yes | Yes | 7.3 |
| 8 | Regex Tester Pro | Yes | — | JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, PCRE, .NET | Yes | — | Yes | 6.7 |
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