Zed Editor Alternatives

Zed Editor is described as 'Blazing fast, collaborative code editor with real-time multi-user support, built-in Vim mode, language-aware syntax trees, integrated terminal, and multi-buffers' and is a very popular Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Zed Editor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Zed Editor alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zed Editor are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, VSCodium and Vim.

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Zed Editor alternatives are mainly Code Editors, but if you're looking for Text Editors or IDEs you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux + Open Source and Mac. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Zed Editor.
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  1. RubyMine icon
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    Comprehensive IDE specialized for Ruby and Rails, offering smart code completion, advanced navigation, error analysis, refactoring tools, integrated debugging, test frameworks, and web development support alongside extensive VCS integration and plugin extensibility.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. WeBuilder icon
     21 likes

    This all-inclusive code editor is tailored for web developers, boasting fast startup and extensive features. It supports a wide range of languages including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python, and offers intelligent code completion, advanced navigation, and direct FTP/SFTP/FTPS server editing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Mousepad icon
     35 likes

    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    80 Mousepad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
     
  4. Pluma icon
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    Pluma, fork of gedit , is a text editor part of MATE Desktop Environment. It supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text...

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    • Linux
     
  5. 9jaCoder Code Editor (9CE) enables users to write fully functional Python programs in their native language. The editor currently supports Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fulfulde, French, and English, with Arabic and RTL support in development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Sidekick CLI icon
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    Sidekick is an agentic CLI-based AI tool inspired by Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf and Cursor. It's meant to be an open source alternative to these tools, providing a similar experience but with the flexibility of using different LLM providers while keeping the agentic...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Ouijit icon
     1 like

    Custom task and session manager using Git worktrees to organize parallel workflows, integrates with agent CLIs and TUIs through hooks and scripts, provides live agent status, automated environment setup, VM sandboxing for secure code, and session-aware automation.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. OpenGravity icon
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    An experimental, lightweight, BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) recreation of the Google Antigravity UI. OpenGravity provides a browser-based, reasoning-enabled IDE with a live xterm.js terminal powered by the WebContainer API.

    51 OpenGravity alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. The uncompromising Python code formatter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Liri Text icon
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    Material Design text editor.

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    • Linux
    • Qt
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. Free, local-first AI coding IDE with full chat, code mode, and an autonomous coding agent that runs on your machine with any LLM (BYOLLM). No subscription.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. A lightweight, minimal and powerful code editor. This editor has many features. Some of them are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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