Geany
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| Original author | Enrico Tröger |
| Developer | Geany authors |
| Release | October 19, 2005 |
| Stable release | 2.1.0 
/ 6 July 2025 |
| Written in | C, C++ |
| Operating system | Linux macOS Windows |
| Size | 23 MB (Windows)
28 MB (MacOS) 32 MB (Linux) |
| Type | IDE |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | www |
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Geany (/dʒiːni/ JEE-NEE) is a free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK, including basic IDE features. It is designed to have short load times, with limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. It has been ported to a wide range of operating systems, such as BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows. The Windows port lacks an embedded terminal window.
On Linux it does not have proper Wayland support as of August 2026 with basic features like the clipboard not working. It does not run as native Wayland app and instead uses XWayland.
However there is discussion about porting the software to GTK4 eventually.
Geany resembles Notepad++ somewhat, which also uses Scintilla.
It is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2 or later.