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Kakoune
Kakoune
Kakoune is a highly efficient, modal text editor that focuses on real-time feedback and powerful, intuitive multi-selection capabilities. Inspired by Vim but offering its own distinct approach to modal editing, Kakoune prioritizes a selection-based workflow that makes text manipulation feel natural and fluid. Instead of commands operating on cursors, commands operate on selections, allowing users to edit and navigate with precision and speed. Kakoune features robust multi-caret editing, context-aware autocompletion, and extensive language support, with performance optimized for working with large files and complex codebases. Designed to be scriptable and extendable with shell commands, Kakoune integrates smoothly with UNIX tools, giving users flexibility in customization. Known for its responsiveness and adaptability, Kakoune is ideal for developers who prefer a keyboard-driven interface and appreciate real-time, immediate feedback in their editing workflow.Starting Price: Free -
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Code::Blocks
Code::Blocks
Code::Blocks is a free, open-source, cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) primarily designed for C, C++, and Fortran development. Known for its lightweight design and modular structure, Code::Blocks offers a highly customizable interface with support for multiple compilers, including GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++. It features an intuitive, user-friendly interface with essential tools like syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion, and a robust debugging environment with breakpoints, variable inspection, and call stack tracing. Code::Blocks is highly extensible through plugins, enabling developers to add features like version control, scripting support, and custom build tools. Its lightweight nature, flexibility, and cross-platform compatibility make it a popular choice for students, educators, and developers working on small to medium-sized C/C++ projects.Starting Price: Free -
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Piny
Pinegrow
Piny is a visual editor designed for developers working with Astro, React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS, operating directly within IDEs like Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. It allows users to edit code visually, navigate components, and streamline styling without special setup. All edits are made directly in the code, ensuring developers maintain full control. Piny offers powerful free features for styling and navigating projects without requiring an account. Visual Tailwind Controls enable intuitive styling by clicking on elements, with changes immediately reflected in the code and automatic document saving to trigger hot reloads. The Tailwind Class Inspector helps manage complex styles in an editable tree of classes and states. Users can edit Tailwind classes directly within strings, variables, and even in non-React/Astro code.Starting Price: $120 per year -
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Void Editor
Void Editor
Void is an open source AI code editor and Cursor alternative built as a fork of VS Code, enabling developers to write code with advanced AI assistance while retaining full control over their data. It supports seamless integration with any large language model, such as DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, connecting directly without routing through a private backend. Core features include tab‑triggered autocomplete, inline quick edit, and a versatile AI chat interface offering normal chat, a restricted gather mode for read/search-only tasks, and an agent mode that automates file and folder operations, terminal commands, and MCP tool access. Void delivers high‑performance operations, including fast apply on files with thousands of lines, alongside checkpoint management for model updates, native tool execution, and lint error detection. Developers can transfer all themes, keybindings, and settings from VS Code in one click and host models locally or via the cloud.Starting Price: Free -
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Eclipse Theia
Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. Not sure whether you need a web or desktop version or both? With Theia you can develop one IDE and run it in browsers or native desktop application from a single source. The Theia project is hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, and is developed by a diverse community. Unlike other "open-source" projects, projects hosted at an Open-Source Foundation are protected against single-vendor decisions against the interest of the diverse community. Theia is designed in a modular way to allow extenders and adopters customizing and extending every aspect of it. Composing a custom IDE-like product is as easy as listing all needed extensions in a package.json file. Adding new functionality by implementing your own extensions is easy, too and provides all the flexibility you need.Starting Price: $0 -
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VSCodium
VSCodium
Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled. Note for Mac OS X Mojave users, if you see “App can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software” when opening VSCodium the first time, you can right-click the application and choose Open. This should only be required the first time opening on Mojave. The most up-to-date information on migrating from Visual Studio Code and other quirks you might encounter are documented. -
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Codespaces
GitHub
Use the full power of Visual Studio Code, including the editor, terminal, debugger, version control, settings sync, and the entire ecosystem of extensions. Work in the browser or hand off to your desktop. Spin up new dev environment for any sized project in seconds with prebuilt images. GitHub’s own 35GB dev image starts in under 10 seconds. Scale your cloud VMs up to 32 cores and 64GB of RAM. And with low-latency connections across four regions, you won’t even remember it’s not your local machine. Preview your changes in the browser with instant reloads (websocket and HMR support) and share private and public ports with your teammates. Every nerdy detail only you care about, configured just right, backed by your own dotfiles repository.Starting Price: $4 per user per month -
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DroidEdit
DroidEdit
Take your work everywhere. Code while you're waiting for the bus or when you're relaxing in a nice beach. Edit your files directly from the cloud. DroidEdit works with Dropbox, Drive, Box, (S)FTP servers and Git. More file providers coming shortly. Syntax highlighting for almost 200 different programming languages. Don't rush to your office if you receive an emergency call asking you to change some code. Just pick your mobile phone and edit everything you need. Checkout, edit, commit and push directly from your phone or tablet. Some developers prefer dark backgrounds, others can only code on paper white screens. To each his own. Use one of the many provided themes for syntax highlighting. If you don't like any, create your own. Expand simple expressions into full fledged HTML code automagically using Emmet.Starting Price: Free -
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JetBrains Fleet
JetBrains
Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. JetBrains Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI. We built Fleet to be a fast and lightweight text editor for when you need to quickly browse and edit your code. It starts up in an instant so you can begin working immediately, and it can easily transform into an IDE, with the IntelliJ code-processing engine running separately from the editor itself. Fleet inherits the things that developers love the most from IntelliJ-based IDEs – project and context aware code completion, navigation to definitions and usages, on-the-fly code quality checks, and quick-fixes. Fleet’s architecture is designed to support a range of configurations and workflows. You can simply run Fleet just on your machine, or move some of the processes elsewhere – for example by locating the code processing in the cloud. -
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OpenProcessing
OpenProcessing
Code away your ideas in seconds with intuitive editor and p5js, enable common libraries with ease, and share your work with the community. Explore generative art, create and collaborate with the community, teach creative coding in the classroom.Starting Price: Free -
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Codeit
Codeit
We believe coding should be fun. Free of console commands and long builds. Run JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Markdown projects with a tap. Syntax highlighting loaded dynamically. Live views, repos, and files open instantly with a link. Works on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. Say goodbye to Ctrl + S. Never lose a character. Weighs 80% less than regular apps, can be installed and works offline. Format the selected code with Ctrl + D. Codeit doesn't use cookies or collect any personal data. Your code stays on your device.Starting Price: Free -
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CoreIDE
CoreIDE
CoreIDE is a full stack IDE for Java, JavaScript, Node.js and TypeScript developers who work on Spring, Spring Boot, React, Express, Vue, Backbone, AngularJS and other web framework based applications. The IDE is not only limited to web development, you can use it to develop other type of projects like desktop, command line, mobile or stand alone applications. It's free Community version contains all the available features. Java • JavaScript • Node.js • TypeScript • Spring • Spring Boot • React • Express • Vue • Backbone • AngularJSStarting Price: Free -
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CodeTasty
CodeTasty
Modern, smart & extensible cloud IDE. CodeTasty is powerful IDE in the cloud with additional features only a cloud application can give you. Our IDE helps you write readable and clean code the smarter way - in real time. The code editor provides silk-smooth experience accompanied with error detection tools, code completion, built-in compilation and a lot more. Login to IDE and start coding. There is no setup at all, you’re ready to work on your projects right away. Experience desktop-like speed and performance while editing your files in the cloud. And, unlike desktop, see what your collaborators are doing. We understand every developer has different needs. You can install countless extensions to enhance your productivity. CodeTasty supports more than 40 languages. The editor supports all major languages and up to a hundred thousand lines of code in a single file.Starting Price: $4 per month -
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PromptIDE
xAI
The xAI PromptIDE is an integrated development environment for prompt engineering and interpretability research. It accelerates prompt engineering through an SDK that allows implementing complex prompting techniques and rich analytics that visualize the network's outputs. We use it heavily in our continuous development of Grok. We developed the PromptIDE to give transparent access to Grok-1, the model that powers Grok, to engineers and researchers in the community. The IDE is designed to empower users and help them explore the capabilities of our large language models (LLMs) at pace. At the heart of the IDE is a Python code editor that - combined with a new SDK - allows implementing complex prompting techniques. While executing prompts in the IDE, users see helpful analytics such as the precise tokenization, sampling probabilities, alternative tokens, and aggregated attention masks. The IDE also offers quality of life features. It automatically saves all prompts.Starting Price: Free -
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Helix Editor
Helix Editor
Helix Editor is a powerful, modern text editor designed for developers seeking a fast, customizable, and efficient editing experience. Built with a focus on productivity, Helix uses a modal editing style inspired by Vim, which allows users to navigate, select, and manipulate text seamlessly through intuitive keyboard shortcuts. It offers a robust set of features including syntax highlighting, multi-caret editing, and support for languages like Rust, Python, and JavaScript. Helix also integrates with the Tree-sitter parsing library for precise syntax-aware editing, making it easier to work with complex code structures. With a minimal interface and a strong focus on performance, Helix Editor provides an ideal environment for programmers who prioritize speed and flexibility in their development workflow.Starting Price: Free -
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CodeLite
CodeLite
CodeLite is a free, open-source, cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed primarily for C, C++, PHP, and JavaScript development. It offers a lightweight and highly customizable environment with support for multiple compilers, including GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++. CodeLite features an intuitive code editor with syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and code refactoring capabilities. It also includes an integrated debugger with support for GDB, making it easy to set breakpoints, inspect variables, and trace call stacks. Additionally, CodeLite supports Node.js and TypeScript development, making it a versatile choice for both desktop and web-based applications. Its flexibility, cross-platform compatibility (Windows, macOS, and Linux), and integration with popular version control systems like Git and Subversion make it a go-to IDE for developers seeking a lightweight alternative to more resource-intensive environments.Starting Price: Free -
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kisuke
kisuke
Kisuke is an app that transforms your iPhone into a powerful development environment. SSH to remote hosts, run Claude Code, edit files, browse the file system, manage processes, and more, all from your device.Starting Price: Free -
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RunCode
RunCode
RunCode offers online developer workspaces, which are environments that allow you to work on code projects in a web browser. These workspaces provide you with a full development environment, including a code editor, a terminal, and access to a range of tools and libraries. They are designed to be easy to use and allow you to get started quickly without the need to set up a local development environment on your own computer.Starting Price: $20/month/user -
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Continue
Continue
The leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to create custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside the IDE Remain in flow while coding by removing the barriers that block productivity when building software. Accelerate development with a plug-and-play system that makes it easy to get started and integrates with your entire stack. Become a leader in AI by setting up your code assistant to evolve as new capabilities emerge. Continue autocompletes single lines or entire sections of code in any programming language as you type. Attach code or other context to ask questions about functions, files, the entire codebase, and more. Highlight code sections and press a keyboard shortcut to rewrite code from natural language.Starting Price: $0/developer/month -
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ConTEXT Editor
ConTEXT Editor
ConTEXT is small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers. Unlimited open files, unlimited editing file size length, powerful syntax highlighting for C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, 80x86 assembler, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, user definable syntax highlighter, project workspaces, compiler integration, multi-language support and many more features.Starting Price: $0 -
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Cliprun
Cliprun
Cliprun makes Python automation accessible by turning your browser into a powerful development environment. Right-click any code you find online - from ChatGPT conversations to GitHub snippets - to instantly execute it without setup. Create scheduled scripts to automate repetitive tasks, analyze data with popular libraries like pandas and matplotlib, and interact with web content directly. Whether you're scraping data, automating workflows, or just experimenting with Python code, Cliprun removes the traditional barriers of environment setup and package management, letting you focus on solving problems.Starting Price: $10/month -
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Supermaven
Supermaven
Supermaven lets you write code 2x faster with AI. Chat with GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4, and other leading models. Use hotkeys to quickly view diffs, apply changes, start conversations, and switch models. Easily attach recently edited files to your messages - Supermaven Chat links the model's code responses back to your original code to show diffs and apply changes. Fix errors by automatically uploading your code together with compiler diagnostic messages in a single click.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Bluefish
Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. See features for an extensive overview, take a look at the screenshots, or download it right away. Bluefish is an open-source development project, released under the GNU GPL license. Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris. Bluefish 2.2.12 is a minor maintenance release with some minor new features. Most important is a fix for a crash in a simple search. Python 3 compatibility has been further improved. Encoding detection in python files has been improved. Triple-click now selects the line. On Mac OSX Bluefish deals better with the new permission features. Also using the correct language in the Bluefish user interface is fixed for certain languages on OSX.