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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  1. Ollie IDE icon

    Ollie IDE

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    Ollie is a sovereign creative suite designed for developers, writers, and creators who want the power of AI without sacrificing privacy or paying monthly subscriptions. It is a unified engine that runs local AI models entirely offline on your own hardware, ensuring complete data...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. dte icon

    dte

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    A small and easy to use console text editor.

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Termux
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  4. Aura IDE icon

    Aura IDE

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    An AI coding harness that dogfooded itself into shape: Planner/Worker agents, repo awareness, surgical edits, validation, recovery, and safe diff approvals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    WeBuilder

    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 completio...

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  6. Scribe icon

    Scribe

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    Vim-flavoured modal editor with the parts a writer actually needs and a few features vim never had. Single static binary, sub-10 ms startup, soft-wrap by default, Claude Code in the editor, syntax highlighting, hunspell spellcheck, Goyo-style reading mode, persistent registers...

    51 Scribe alternatives

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    • BSD
    • Rust
     
  7. OpenGravity icon

    OpenGravity

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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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. A

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    ad (pronounced A.D.) is an attempt at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9's Acme. Inside of ad text is something you can execute as well as edit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. Notepad icon

    Notepad

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    Notepad is a fast and distraction-free online writing space. Capture thoughts, take notes, and share instantly. Perfect for quick ideas, to-do lists, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. CodeBuddy icon

    CodeBuddy

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    CodeBuddy IDE is built to create a symbiotic environment where product, design, development, and deployment flow into one another without friction. By embedding AI deeply into every step—from requirement planning and product design to coding and go-live—it delivers a one-stop...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  15. ne icon

    ne

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    ne is a text editor based on the POSIX standard that runs (we hope) on almost any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.

    42 ne alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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