CodePen Alternatives

CodePen is described as 'A communal platform for front-end development offering real-time previews, project building, and showcases, enhancing skills through challenges' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to CodePen, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best CodePen alternative is jsFiddle, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to CodePen are Replit, Firebase Studio, CodeSandbox and JS Bin.

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  1. Plunker icon
     27 likes

    Plunker is an online community for creating, collaborating on and sharing your web development ideas.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  2. Dabblet icon
     20 likes

    dabblet is an interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code. It uses -prefix-free, so that you won't have to add any prefixes in your CSS code. You can save your work in Github gists, embed it in other websites and share it with others.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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    Dabblet vs CodePen Comments
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    It's purdy and doesn't have a lot of the fluff that CodePen does. Changes take place much faster here.

    • Dabblet is Free and Open SourceCodePen is Freemium and Proprietary
  3. flems.io icon
     7 likes

    Flems is a playground for web development. It's ideal for prototyping ideas & sharing working front-end code examples.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. 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 types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
     
  5. fastpen icon
     2 likes

    Fastpen is an open source alternative to codepen that just stores the source code compressed, in the url.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Liveweave icon
     21 likes

    Liveweave is a HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript playground for web developers and designers

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Liveweave vs CodePen Comments
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    Negative
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    Doesn't support preprocessors nor libraries

    • Liveweave is Free and ProprietaryCodePen is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. Playcode icon
     3 likes

    Playcode is an AI website builder and AI app builder for creating, editing, and publishing live web projects. Describe the website, landing page, internal tool, or app you need in plain language, refine the result with AI chat and visual editing, and publish with hosting, SSL...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Codeply icon
     3 likes

    Codeply is a editor that lets you run and preview your HTML, CSS and JavaScript code from any modern Web-browser. You've seen this capability in other tools like JSFiddle, Codepen and Bootply. But, Codeply is different because it's not just a code editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Codiad icon
     32 likes

    Codiad is an open source, web-based, cloud IDE and code editor with minimal footprint and requirements

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. snippet.host icon
     14 likes

    snippet.host is a minimal text and code snippet hosting. With memorable domain name, it is free, lightweight, with no ads or cookies. Features include syntax highlighting in multiple languages, easy-to-use API and Tor hidden service support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. ShiftEdit icon
     28 likes

    online IDE.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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