Cursor Alternatives

Apps similar to Cursor include Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other options are VSCodium, Zed Editor, opencode and Claude Code. You're spoiled for choice with AI Coding Assistants like Cursor: we list more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. AI Badger icon
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    AI Badger - Local-first tool that extracts focused repo context for any AI chat (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, etc.) without wasting tokens on irrelevant files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
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  2. bolt.diy icon
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    bolt.diy, the official open source version of Bolt.new (previously known as oTToDev and bolt.new ANY LLM), which allows you to choose the LLM that you use for each prompt!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  3. CatDoes icon
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    CatDoes is your AI-powered app development partner that turns conversations into production-ready mobile apps. Just describe what you want, AI agents will handle the rest.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. The copilot-complete function demonstrates that ~100 lines of LISP is all it takes for Emacs to do that thing GitHub Copilot and VSCode are famous for doing except superior w.r.t. both quality and freedom

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • GNU Emacs
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  5. Spec Coder icon
     3 likes

    Spec Coder is an AI-powered coding assistant that integrates with Visual Studio Code to make your development workflow faster and more efficient. It provides a variety of features, including code completion, code generation, unit test generation, and AI chat, to help you write...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
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  6. Frontman is an AI Agent that lives in your browser, sees your live DOM, and turns your visual feedback into real changes - no more refresh-and-check cycles.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Next.js
    • Wordpress
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  7. YouCompleteMe is a fast, as-you-type, fuzzy-search code completion, comprehension and refactoring engine for Vim.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vim
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  8. jedi-vim icon
     2 likes

    Python auto-completion plugin for vim.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vim
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  9. Moxby icon
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    Work browser that combines your browser, IDE, AI agents, docs, tasks, and automations in one workspace, and lets you modify any website you use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  10. AI-driven no-code platform to create full-stack web apps quickly, featuring instant one-click deployment, integrated hosting, domain tools, professional email, real-time editing, version control, and rapid live publishing with a streamlined three-step process.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11. Aurora Labs icon
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    Turn requirements into Vite, React and TypeScript projects, then refine them through a live preview or click-to-select inspector. Each change is committed to the user's GitHub repository; import existing projects, connect Supabase, and deploy to URLs or custom domains.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12.  2 likes

    avante.nvim is a Neovim plugin designed to emulate the behaviour of the Cursor AI IDE. It provides users with AI-driven code suggestions and the ability to apply these recommendations directly to their source files with minimal effort.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Neovim
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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