Athas Alternatives
Apps similar to Athas include Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other options are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim. You're spoiled for choice with Code Editors like Athas: we list more than 50 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and Chrome OS.
Alternatives list
63 mux - coding agent multiplexer alternativesA desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
United States
+4
51 CodeBuddy alternativesCodeBuddy IDE is built to create a symbiotic environment where product, design, development, and deployment flow into one another without friction. By embedding AI deeply into every step—from requirement planning and product design to coding and go-live—it delivers a one-stop...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
China
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
France
EU
+2
A native macOS text editor with syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, Markdown WYSIWYG, JSON/YAML support, regex and Column Mode, custom scripts, batch processing, and optional AI assistance.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
+4
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Caxton is a native Mac workbench for text and data files of any size. Every delimited file opens as text and as a typed grid, edits made in either view show in the other, and saving writes the same file back. Nothing is imported anywhere.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
+1
PlainForge opens, edits, and saves local files with a focus on privacy, control, and productivity. No ads, no tracking, no login, and no internet permission.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
Tatastu is the friendly desktop app for building with Claude. It is the visual home for Claude Code and a calmer alternative to editors like Cursor, made for people new to coding or who just want it to feel simple.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
Ami is a native desktop app that lets you run coding agents locally, chat with your codebase in plain English, and see real-time edits tracked for confident commits.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- United States
+1
59 Verdent alternativesAgentic AI coding suite with multiple parallel agents for planning, coding, verifying, and orchestrating complex software tasks.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- JetBrains IDE
- Visual Studio Code
- Windows
+2
Vim-flavoured modal editor with the parts a writer actually needs and a few features vim never had. Single static binary, sub-10 ms startup, soft-wrap by default, Claude Code in the editor, syntax highlighting, hunspell spellcheck, Goyo-style reading mode, persistent registers...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Unlicense)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Rust
An AI-powered IDE for data teams that connects directly to your data warehouse to write SQL, Python, and dbt workflows with full schema context.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- United States
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