Expresso Alternatives

Expresso is described as 'The award-winning Expresso editor is equally suitable as a teaching tool for the beginning user of regular expressions or as a full-featured development environment for the experienced programmer or web designer with an extensive knowledge of regular expressions' and is a regular expression editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Expresso for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best Expresso alternative is regular expressions 101, which is free. Other great apps like Expresso are RegExr, RegexBuddy, RegexMate and Wildcard.

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  1. Regex101 is a powerful, online regular expression tool with extensive support for multiple languages including PHP, PCRE, Python and JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. RegExr icon
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    RegExr.com is an online tool to learn, build, and test Regular Expressions. It was created by Grant Skinner and the nice people at gskinner.com.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. RegexBuddy icon
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    RegexBuddy is your perfect companion for working with regular expressions. Learning, creating, understanding, testing, using and saving regular expressions has never been easier.

    44 RegexBuddy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. RegexMate icon
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    RegexMate offers seamless regex crafting and testing on macOS and iOS. Its minimalist interface provides an instant live preview, and users can save their expressions into a library for quick reference. A comprehensive guide with tutorials is always accessible, with light and dark mode options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Wildcard icon
     2 likes

    Wildcard gives you a nice and simple to use interface to test/practice regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. RegExp icon
     1 like

    The only one Regular Expression tester you need, that will help you to test your regular expressions in flavors:

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Debuggex icon
     5 likes

    Debuggex is an intuitive visual regular expression debugger, tester, and helper.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. RegViz icon
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    RegViz is a tool for debugging JavaScript regular expressions in a visual way. Advanced highlighting helps you to understand the structure and purpose of a regular expression and to detect bugs therein.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Regular expression tester with syntax highlighting, explanation, cheat sheet for PHP/PCRE, Python, Go, JavaScript, Java.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
     
  10. Regulex icon
     5 likes

    Regulex is an open-source, regular expression parser and visualizer. It's available online, can be embedded in other websites, or the code can be self-hosted as a JavaScript tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. It has the following features:

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. RegEx Lab icon
     1 like

    RegEx Lab allows you to test regular expressions. The app highlights and underlines text to show matches and capture groups. There's also a handy cheatsheet and a results list view. It has a replace feature too.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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