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. flems.io icon
     8 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

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. goormIDE icon
     7 likes

    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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. kodeWeave icon
     25 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
     
  4. Plunker icon
     28 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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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Liveweave icon
     22 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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  7. shelf.gg icon
     9 likes

    shelf.gg is an open source pastebin that makes it easy to find and share lists of resources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux Mobile
     
  8. 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 (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Codewith.it icon
     4 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. PLAYCODE icon
     3 likes

    Make Awesome Web Things, Demos, Apps with html, css, javascript in online code editor.

    19 PLAYCODE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. 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
     
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