Use RegexMagic to generate complete regular expressions to your specifications by using RegexMagics flexible patterns, instead of the cryptic regex syntax.

Regulex is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to Regulex for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, Linux and iPhone apps. The best Regulex alternative is regular expressions 101, which is free. Other great apps like Regulex are RegExr, Expresso, RegexMate and Wildcard.
Use RegexMagic to generate complete regular expressions to your specifications by using RegexMagics flexible patterns, instead of the cryptic regex syntax.

This software will let you design your regexps by letting you type the expression and visualize its effect on a sample of your choice.




Reggy is a small OS X cocoa/objective-c application to very quickly visualize what a given regular expression will match given a test string. It will also tell you if you have errors in your regular expression.


A free environment for regular expression testing (ferret). It allows you to write regexes and test them against a sample text, providing extensive output about the results.

Multi String Replacer is a small and portable application that can be used to replace multiple strings at once. Its main functionality is String Swapping in which can be easily and quickly done. String swapping consists on replacing WordX with WordY and WordY with WordX.


Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.


Having trouble getting your regular expressions just right? Not sure what they match and what they leave out? Tired of having to write test programs every time? RegExhibit can help.

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.


Pyrexp is a regex testing tool that allows to validate regex patterns, test regular expressions against strings, and also includes a regex visualizer that provides graphical visualization of regex patterns.

Regexp testing tool allows to apply group of regexps to huge arrays of data (millions or so) in order to investigate search or search/replacement possibilities of regexp group.

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