Cloud9 IDE vs Codeanywhere: What are the differences?

Cloud9 IDE: Your development environment, in the cloud. Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go; Codeanywhere: Online code editor, available on iOS, Android and more. Integrates with GitHub and Dropbox. A development platform that enables you to not only edit your files from underlying services like FTP, GitHub, Dropbox and the like, but on top of that gives you the ability to collaborate, embed and share through Codeanywhere on any device.

Cloud9 IDE and Codeanywhere can be categorized as "Cloud IDE" tools.

Some of the features offered by Cloud9 IDE are:

• Real-time collaboration and chat
• Connect via SSH and FTP
• Code Completion (suggestions)

On the other hand, Codeanywhere provides the following key features:

• Code editor
• FTP Client
• SSH Terminal

"Easy to use" is the top reason why over 105 developers like Cloud9 IDE, while over 12 developers mention "Sleek interface" as the leading cause for choosing Codeanywhere.

LinkedIn, Heroku, and Salesforce are some of the popular companies that use Cloud9 IDE, whereas Codeanywhere is used by Techstars, Accenture, and Bameslog. Cloud9 IDE has a broader approval, being mentioned in 29 company stacks & 40 developers stacks; compared to Codeanywhere, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.