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 Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best CodePen alternative is jsFiddle, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to CodePen are Replit, Firebase Studio, Qoder IDE and CodeSandbox.

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  1. Dabblet icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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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.

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    • Most users think Dabblet is a great CodePen alternative.

    • Dabblet is Free and Open SourceCodePen is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. kodeWeave icon
     25 likes
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    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.

    60 kodeWeave alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Android
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    • Android Tablet
     
  3. fastpen icon
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    Fastpen is an open source alternative to codepen that just stores the source code compressed, in the url.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
  4. Plunker icon
     28 likes
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    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
     
  5. goormIDE icon
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    goormIDE is a powerful cloud IDE service to maximize the productivity for developers and teams. You can build your own development environment with just a few clicks and collaborate in real-time on the same docker container.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Codewith.it icon
     4 likes
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    Codewith.it is an online HTML, CSS and JavaScript code playground with realtime preview with many tools for developing web pages and advanced code analysis systems, with many assistance tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Webmaker - teach your self to code for the web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
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    Storm is an online web development environment which allows users to run HTML, CSS, Javascript code in real time in a secured environment. It supports sharing Scribble (Storm project) via a dedicated link and also allows users to use jQuery and React framework of JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. Liveweave icon
     22 likes
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    Liveweave is a HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript playground for web developers and designers

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Doesn't support preprocessors nor libraries

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Liveweave is Free and ProprietaryCodePen is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. PLAYCODE icon
     3 likes
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    Make Awesome Web Things, Demos, Apps with html, css, javascript in online code editor.

    18 PLAYCODE alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. Codiad icon
     32 likes
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    Codiad is an open source, web-based, cloud IDE and code editor with minimal footprint and requirements

    47 Codiad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Codeply icon
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    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

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    • Online
     
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