Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Termux
- Android
Zed Editor Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Zed Editor is Notepad++, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Visual Studio Code, VSCodium, Sublime Text and Vim. Code Editors like Zed Editor are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Linux, Windows, the web and Android.
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A native macOS text editor with syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, Markdown WYSIWYG, JSON/YAML support, regex and Column Mode, custom scripts, batch processing, and optional AI assistance.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
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Desktop AI coding workspace with an integrated editor, local file-version comparison and restore, project memory, and no app telemetry.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Caxton is a native Mac workbench for text and data files of any size. Every delimited file opens as text and as a typed grid, edits made in either view show in the other, and saving writes the same file back. Nothing is imported anywhere.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United States
+1
PlainForge opens, edits, and saves local files with a focus on privacy, control, and productivity. No ads, no tracking, no login, and no internet permission.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Android
Tatastu is the friendly desktop app for building with Claude. It is the visual home for Claude Code and a calmer alternative to editors like Cursor, made for people new to coding or who just want it to feel simple.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- United States
Ami is a native desktop app that lets you run coding agents locally, chat with your codebase in plain English, and see real-time edits tracked for confident commits.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- United States
+1
59 Verdent alternativesAgentic AI coding suite with multiple parallel agents for planning, coding, verifying, and orchestrating complex software tasks.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- JetBrains IDE
- Visual Studio Code
- Windows
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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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Unlicense)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Rust
An AI-powered IDE for data teams that connects directly to your data warehouse to write SQL, Python, and dbt workflows with full schema context.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- United States
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Typescript
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
Netherlands
EU
+1
Jollpi is a lightweight, simple, and reliable text editor, built with Python 3, GTK4, and GtkSourceView 5. This version is a modern rewrite of the original 2010 Python 2 + PyGTK Jollpi text editor - now refreshed for modern Linux distributions.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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