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  1. Claude Code icon
     61 likes

    AI assistant for terminal-based development optimized with advanced code understanding, codebase search, multi-file editing, IDE integration, and explicit user control.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Homebrew
    • npm
    • JetBrains IDE
    • Online
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  2. LanguageTool icon
     189 likes

    An AI-powered proofreading tool supports over 20 languages, offering free and premium versions with extensive grammar checks across multiple apps.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Microsoft Edge
    • ONLYOFFICE
    • Google Chrome
    • Microsoft Outlook
    • Safari
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Microsoft Word
    • Eclipse
    • TinyMCE
    • Google Docs
    • Thunderbird
    • Vim
    • Cloudron
    • Sublime Text
    • GNU Emacs
    • Opera
    • Gmail
    • LibreOffice
    • Apache OpenOffice
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • LibreOffice - Writer
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    3.7
    Good22 ratings
  3. Typora icon
     334 likes

    A cross-platform Markdown editor providing real-time preview, Focus & Typewriter modes, and support for multiple export formats.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
    • Visual Studio Code
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    4.5
    Excellent36 ratings
  4. Bruno icon
     56 likes

    Lightweight open source API client for testing endpoints, saving requests as plain text files, offline use, git-compatible collaboration, and privacy-focused storage.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Visual Studio Code
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    4.3
    Very Good10 ratings
  5. Codex icon
     24 likes

    One agent for everywhere you code. Powered by OpenAI’s frontier coding models and included in ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Cursor
    • JetBrains IDE
    • Windsurf
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Node.JS
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  6. Pencil.dev icon
     18 likes

    Vector UI design canvas for IDEs, offering infinite canvas, layers, reusable components, synced design tokens, code integration, and AI assistant support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cursor
    • Visual Studio Code
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  7. GitHub Copilot icon
     37 likes

    GitHub Copilot leverages the power of OpenAI Codex to provide real-time suggestions for code and complete functions, all within your editor. With its training on vast amounts of code, GitHub Copilot translates natural language prompts into coding suggestions across multiple...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Neovim
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  8. GitKraken icon
     176 likes

    Millions of developers and teams around the world choose GitKraken Client to make Git more visual and accessible with an intuitive UI, the flexibility to switch between a GUI or a terminal, and a seamless experience across operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge
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    3.1
    Fair14 ratings
  9. Foam icon
     55 likes

    Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Visual Studio Code
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  10. Dendron icon
     72 likes

    Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.

    Cost / License

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
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    5.0
    Excellent7 ratings
  11. Deno icon
     30 likes

    Deno is the open-source JavaScript runtime for the modern web. Built on web standards with zero-config TypeScript, unmatched security, and a complete built-in toolchain.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • Visual Studio Code
    • WebAssembly
    • BSD
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  12. PostgreSQL for Visual Studio Code is the essential extension for working with PostgreSQL databases - locally or in the cloud. Connect, query, build, and chat with your databases with ease, including seamless Entra authentication for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  13. TabbyML icon
     22 likes

    Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant. With Tabby, every team can set up its own LLM-powered code completion server with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Visual Studio Code
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  14. Markwhen icon
     15 likes

    Interactive tool converting Markdown-like text to cascading timelines, supporting date styles, media, calendar, map, Gantt views, and in-timeline edits.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Docker
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  15. Harper icon
     14 likes

    Harper is an English grammar checker designed to be just right. I created it after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • WebAssembly
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Homebrew
    • Neovim
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  16. Cline icon
     12 likes

    Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
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  17. GitWand icon
     11 likes

    Native Git client that auto-resolves 95% of merge conflicts (10 deterministic patterns with confidence scoring). Includes visual diff and hunk staging, PR review for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, an terminal for AI agents, plus a CLI, VS Code extension, and local MCP server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
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  18. Roo Code icon
     9 likes

    Supercharge your editor with AI that understands your codebase, streamlines development, and helps you write, refactor, and debug with ease.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
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  19. FluidCAD icon
     6 likes

    Browser-based parametric 3D CAD with JavaScript scripting, interactive viewport editing, feature history, STEP import/export, and familiar workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
    • JavaScript
    • Neovim
    • Typescript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
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  20. Kilo Code icon
     6 likes

    Open source AI coding assistant for planning, building, and fixing code. We frequently merge features from open-source projects like Roo Code and Cline, while building our own vision.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Cursor
    • JetBrains IDE
    • Visual Studio Code
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  21. Twinny icon
     9 likes

    The most no-nonsense locally hosted (or API hosted) AI code completion plugin for Visual Studio Code, like GitHub Copilot but 100% free and 100% private.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
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  22. Amazon CodeWhisperer is a general purpose, machine learning-powered code generator that provides you with code recommendations in real time. As you write code, CodeWhisperer automatically generates suggestions based on your existing code and comments.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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