CodeKit Alternatives

CodeKit is described as 'Automatically compiles all those awesome languages you read about in tutorials' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to CodeKit for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Chrome OS apps. The best CodeKit alternative is Prepros. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Prepros or Fire.app. Other great apps like CodeKit are Scout-App, SassMeister, Smaller and SiteFlow.

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  1. Prepros icon
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    Compile Less, Sass, Scss, Stylus, Jade, Coffeescript, Haml and Markdown with live browser refresh.

    7 Prepros alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    • Most users think Prepros is a great CodeKit alternative.

    • Prepros is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to CodeKit.

    • Prepros is the most popular free alternative to CodeKit.

    • Prepros is Free Personal and ProprietaryCodeKit is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Fire.app icon
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    Fire.app is a menu bar only app for dead easy HTML prototyping. It supports Sass/Compass, Haml, ERB, Markdown, CoffeeScript, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Fire.app is the most popular Open Source alternative to CodeKit.

    • Fire.app is Free and Open SourceCodeKit is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Hammer icon
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    Hammer is a great way of building out HTML websites. With features including HTML includes, SASS and Coffeescript parsing and Clever Paths, Hammer is an indispensable tool!

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Hammer is the most popular commercial alternative to CodeKit.

    • Hammer is Paid and ProprietaryCodeKit is also Paid and Proprietary
  4. Scout-App icon
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    Scout-App is a cross-platform desktop app that delivers the power of Sass to the hands of web designers.

    9 Scout-App alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • node-webkit
     
  5. SassMeister icon
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    SassMeister is a playground for Sass. Add some Sass and SassMeister will show you the rendered CSS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • SassMeister is the most popular Web-based alternative to CodeKit.

    • SassMeister is Free and ProprietaryCodeKit is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Smaller icon
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    Smaller is a powerful HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript compressor on Mac OS X, definitely a must have for every Mac based web developers.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. SiteFlow icon
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    The life-saver app for web developers ! Easily check syntax, minify or process all your web assets (stylesheets, scripts and templates) as you edit them with your favorite text editor!

    Styles processing: Whether you're working with plain CSS or with Less, Sass or Stylus, Si.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Squeezer icon
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    Tired of having to compile your scripts manually? Do you want to optimize your website images? Do you really want to speed up your website by shaving off unnecessary file bulk?

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Compass is an open-source SASS library - extending capabilities of SASS and provides cross-browser mixins for CSS properties introduced in CSS3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Delivery icon
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    A little, yet powerful code compressor. Delivery make your scripts and stylesheets lighter. So them load faster.

    Three different engines.

    By the JS side, Delivery includes the YUI Compressor (from Yahoo!) and Closure (from Google). Just select one. Or even both. For stylesheets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11.  Like
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    Minimus is a GUI frontend for Yahoo’s YUI Compressor. Instead of using inconvenient and slow websites to compress your JavaScript and CSS, you can do it right on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Javascript Packer allows you to quickly validate and compress javascript code. Developers will find that compressing a single or multiple javascript files can take seconds with this tool, saving time for development and not file management.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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