PyCharm Alternatives

PyCharm is described as 'IDE for Python and Django offering refactoring, code analysis, VCS integration, debugger, deployment, and more, with a Community Edition option' and is a very popular IDE in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PyCharm for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and BSD apps. The best PyCharm alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like PyCharm are VSCodium, Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse and Zed Editor.

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  1. Bluefish Editor icon
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    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

    210 Bluefish Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
  2. Athas icon
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    Lightweight, open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux featuring Vim keybindings, built-in Git support, agentic AI editing with multiple models, syntax highlighting, LSP for intelligent completion, fast performance, and efficient workflows.

    52 Athas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Squircle CE icon
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    Squircle CE is a fast, lightweight code editor and file manager with support for over 30 programming languages, remote file access via SFTP/FTP(S) and Git VCS integration. Whether you're a student, hobbyist, or professional developer, Squircle CE lets you write, manage, and...

    70 Squircle CE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
    • Squircle CE is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to PyCharm.

    • Squircle CE is Free and Open SourcePyCharm is Freemium and Open Source
  4. Thonny icon
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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. PyDev icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
     
  6. Komodo IDE icon
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    Code smarter and faster with Komodo IDE, the cross-platform professional development environment for dynamic languages and open technologies. Komodo's award-winning feature set includes standard editor functionality like code formatting, commenting, auto-indent and syntax...

    64 Komodo IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Delphi icon
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    Embarcadero Delphi, formerly CodeGear Delphi and Borland Delphi, is a software development environment for Microsoft Windows applications originally developed by Borland and now owned and developed by Embarcadero Technologies.

    41 Delphi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  8. Light Table icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  9. Wing Python IDE icon
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    Wing is a highly customizable Python IDE that uses both static and runtime code analysis to provide auto-completion, call tips, code documentation, goto-definition, find uses, refactoring, and many other features.

    35 Wing Python IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Wing Python IDE as an Alternative to PyCharm
    KhazAkar
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    It's much more cleaner, simpler and less resource-intensive as PyCharm is. Feels like breeze to use it, plus it have integrated Vi/Vim mode ;)

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    • Wing Python IDE is Paid and ProprietaryPyCharm is Freemium and Open Source
  10. PyScripter icon
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    PyScripter is a free and open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial Windows-based IDEs available for other languages.

    45 PyScripter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Pyzo icon
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    Pyzo is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency. It consists of two main components, the editor and the shell, and uses a set of...

    32 Pyzo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Pyzo as an Alternative to PyCharm
    bellwd
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    Has the principal features that most programmers actually need yet is easy to learn. Lively performance, at least for small code samples in my experience.

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    • Pyzo is Free and Open SourcePyCharm is Freemium and Open Source
  12. NINJA-IDE icon
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    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for...

    56 NINJA-IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Comments about NINJA-IDE as an Alternative to PyCharm
    Guest
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    Complete and intuitive python IDE. Light weight with many features. I have not found it lacking in any aspect.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • NINJA-IDE is Free and Open SourcePyCharm is Freemium and Open Source
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