Reggy Alternatives

Reggy is described as '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' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Reggy for Web-based, Windows, Mac and Self-Hosted. The best Reggy alternative is Expresso, which is free. Other great apps like Reggy are Regulex, RegexPal, Debuggex and The Regex Coach.

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  1. Expresso icon
     36 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. 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
    Good alternative?
     
  3. RegexPal icon
     6 likes

    An online JavaScript regular expression tester. Enter a regex expression and test data and determine if matches are made.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. Debuggex icon
     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. The Regex Coach icon
     10 likes

    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
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  6. RegViz icon
     2 likes

    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
    Good alternative?
     
  7. Rubular icon
     6 likes

    A ruby based regular expression editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
  8. RegExhibit icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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