Open Source Adobe Dreamweaver AlternativesTop Website Builders & Code Editors like Adobe Dreamweaver

The best open source alternative to Adobe Dreamweaver is Silex. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Adobe Dreamweaver and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Adobe Dreamweaver are Bluefish Editor, KompoZer, Aptana Studio and VvvebJs.

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  1. Silex icon
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    Create and host your websites for free, with no subscriptions, no restrictions.

    Build fast secure static websites as the front-end for your CMS of choice.

    139 Silex alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Bluefish Editor icon
     164 likes

    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    229 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  3. KompoZer icon
     132 likes

    KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

    61 KompoZer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
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  4. Aptana Studio icon
     332 likes

    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. kodeWeave icon
     24 likes

    kodeWeave is a realtime coding playground for HTML, CSS and Javascript. Similar to JSFiddle and JSBin, but kodeWeave was made to work offline but also as a prototyping application to build applications for desktop operating systems while on mobile devices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
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  6. Quanta Plus icon
     11 likes

    Quanta Plus is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages. It is part of KDE, a Linux desktop environment, released in the Kdewebdev package.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Online HTML editor with real-time preview. Edit your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code and monitor the instant live preview.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. PalaCMS icon
     4 likes

    Pala is a component-based CMS that streamlines development and content management by putting code and content in the same place. Developers get full code control with a browser-based IDE, editors get focused visual content editing, and visitors get sub-second loading speeds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  9. Scribes icon
     24 likes

    A text editor for GNOME that combines simplicity with power.

    Scribes focuses on streamlining your workflow. It does so by ensuring common and repetitive operations are intelligently automated. And also by eliminating factors that prevent you from focusing on your tasks.

    The res.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. Maqetta icon
     8 likes

    Maqetta is an open source project that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces. The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plugins or downloads.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Another HTML Editor Plugin for Eclipse.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
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