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Zed Editor

Blazing fast code editor offering real-time multi-user collaboration, language-aware syntax highlighting, integrated terminal, multi-buffers for tab-free editing, built-in Vim mode, searchable outline, AI coding assistance, advanced keyboard commands, and cross-platform support.

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  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Flathub
  • Flatpak
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Comment summary: Zed Editor is praised for its speed, modern design, AI integration, and ease of customization. Many users highlight its potential as a strong alternative to VS Code/VSCodium and appreciate features like collaborative editing and open-source development. Some drawbacks include limited language support, lack of UTF-16/code page compatibility, and fewer extensions compared to VS Code. Several users note that Zed is rapidly improving and closing feature gaps.
Top Positive Comment
Juri
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Super fast on my old Laptop and AI features are not really annoying, like in other IDEs.

Top Negative Comment
mihailfleytman
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It works fast, has a good vim-like mode, BUT it's a text editor without UTF-16 and other code pages. I did a mistake and associated all text files with ZED, and I cannot open files from Samsung phone. MacOS preinstalled TextEdit can open files with different encodings, it can Windows Notepad, as can VS code, Geany, etc, but can't do Zed

Bytes-and-Bytes
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It's really fast!

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Dylan Hunt
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CEO, CTO at https://imperium42.com

Rust, loads instantly. I turn off all the AI features and make it completely offline as a Notepad++ replacement. Like NP++, no need to save - just close and reopen. No nagging.

Hassan Mehmood
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Co Founder at Frontface

I like zed for its super fast free text search over the codebase . I tried some other vs code wrappers but more than once they crashed or botched up my memory .

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Andrea
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CareerCraft.ing

Great editor with great performance and AI integration.

It does not have all the features and extensions of VS Code but while it is closing the gap quickly I started to notice that maybe I could live without a specific ext while better configuring my editor.

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Cyon
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Exoworo Fan at Companies only need AI right?!

Its fast and the AI features are optional and can be 100% turned of

Good bye VSCode/Chrome

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Install from the command line

  • winget install -e --id ZedIndustries.Zed
  • brew install --cask zed
  • flatpak install flathub dev.zed.Zed

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is Zed Editor?

Zed is a blazing fast, multi-user, productivity-focused text editor. From the creators of Atom icon Atom, Electron icon Electron and Tree-sitter, the editor features built-in Vim mode with tooltips for key-bindings, language-aware syntax tree enabling precise code highlighting and searchable outline, integrated terminal and innovative multi-buffers for fast and efficient editing across files without switching tabs.

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  •  11,021 Forks
  •  3031 Open Issues
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Our users have written 13 comments and reviews about Zed Editor, and it has gotten 157 likes

Zed Editor was added to AlternativeTo by David on and this page was last updated . Zed Editor is sometimes referred to as Zed Code Editor, Zed Editor, Zed.dev, Zed.