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InstallForge vs InstEd

A side-by-side look at InstallForge and InstEd. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

InstallForge

InstallForge

Development

InstallForge is a software installation authoring tool that allows you to quickly and easily create installers, setup packages, and executables for deploying software on Windows systems. It provides an intuitive visual interface for defining installation steps including file extraction, shortcuts, registry edits, custom actions, etc.

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InstEd

InstEd

Development

InstEd is a free, open source text editor and Unicode-aware programming editor for macOS. It includes features like syntax highlighting for numerous programming languages and text encodings, line numbering, folding, split windows, regular expression find/replace, and more.

text-editorprogrammingmacosopen-source

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