Free PyCharm Alternatives

The best free alternative to PyCharm is VSCodium, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to PyCharm and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to PyCharm are Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, Geany and Zed Editor.

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PyCharm alternatives page was last updated Nov 15, 2024
  1. Squircle IDE icon
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    Squircle IDE currently supports coding in the following programming languages: ActionScript, C, C++, C#, Groovy, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Json, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, Markdown, PHP, Python, Ruby, Shell, Smali, SQL, Toml, TypeScript, Visual Basic, XML and YAML.

    68 Squircle IDE alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Support for MarkDown
    4.  Syntax Highlighting
    5.  Code Completion
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    • Squircle IDE is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to PyCharm.

    • Squircle IDE is Free and Open SourcePyCharm is Freemium and Open Source
    • Squircle IDE is LightweightPyCharm is not according to our users
  2. JetBrains Fleet icon
     10 likes

    Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.

    194 JetBrains Fleet alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Code Formatting
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Autocompletion
    6.  Support for MarkDown
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  3. Thonny icon
     13 likes

    Python IDE for beginners. Its supports different ways of stepping through the code, step-by-step expression evaluation, detailed visualization of the call stack and a mode for explaining the concepts of references and...

    12 Thonny alternatives
    Faithful representation of function calls.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Thonny Features

    1.  Debug mode
    2.  Step by Step
    3.  Debugging
    4.  Python IDE
    5.  Module installation
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  4. 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.

    57 kodeWeave alternatives
    The kodeWeave Web Application

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet

    kodeWeave Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Portable
    3.  Real time collaboration
    4.  Debugging
    Discontinued

    On their GitHub page: "As of July 25th 2017 kodeWeave is no longer an active project. All updates as of that date and on are solely contributor based implementations." Last update in November 2019.

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    Comments about kodeWeave as an Alternative to PyCharm
     
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    it has nothing to do with python

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    • kodeWeave is Free and Open SourcePyCharm is Freemium and Open Source
  5. Light Table icon
     60 likes

    Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

    92 Light Table alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    Discontinued

    The last version (0.8.1) is from January 2016.

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  6. CodeLite icon
     64 likes

    CodeLite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and Node.js programming languages. CodeLite is known to work on various OSs including:

    51 CodeLite alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • wxWidgets

    CodeLite Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  C++
    4.  Virtual filesystem
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  7. Graviton Editor icon
     17 likes

    Graviton Code Editor is a minimalist, cross-platform editor focused on speed, customization and productivity.

    191 Graviton Editor alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Graviton Editor Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Autocompletion
    4.  Plugin API
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  8. CodeBrew icon
     3 likes

    Unleash the power of Java coding on your iPhone or iPad with CodeBrew - the ultimate Java Integrated Development Environment designed for developers on the go. Dive into the world of seamless coding, whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting your programming journey.

    55 CodeBrew alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    CodeBrew Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Autocompletion
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Java IDE
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    • CodeBrew is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to PyCharm.

    • CodeBrew is Freemium and ProprietaryPyCharm is Freemium and Open Source
  9. IDLE icon
     40 likes

    Default IDE which come installed with the Python programming language. It aims to be simple and intuitive, and is especially useful for programmers just learning Python. The editor has syntax highlighting, search features, class browsers, and runs Python scripts in a separate...

    26 IDLE alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    IDLE Features

    1.  Python IDE
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  10. Polars icon
     1 like

    Polars is a highly performant DataFrame library for manipulating structured data. The core is written in Rust, but the library is also available in Python. Its key features are:

    18 Polars alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python

    Polars Features

    1.  Rust
    2.  Scientific data analysis
    3.  Data science
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  11. PyDev icon
     14 likes

    PyDev is a third-party plug-in for Eclipse. It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python supporting code refactoring, graphical debugging, code analysis and many other features.

    17 PyDev alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse

    PyDev Features

    1.  Python IDE
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  12. pandas icon
     4 likes

    Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more.

    18 pandas alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python

    pandas Features

    1.  Scientific data analysis
    2.  Data science
    3.  Python-based
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