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Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Open-source code editor

Developer Tools 47.2K installs/mo 8.0

25 alternatives

Sublime Text

sublime-text

8.0

Text editor for code, markup and prose

Developer Tools 5.8K installs/mo

VSCodium

vscodium

8.0

Binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

Developer Tools 3.4K installs/mo

Cursor

cursor

7.5

Write, edit, and chat about your code with AI

Developer Tools 11.3K installs/mo

Zed

zed

8.0

Multiplayer code editor

Developer Tools 12.5K installs/mo

Windsurf

windsurf

7.0

Agentic IDE powered by AI Flow paradigm

Developer Tools 1.1K installs/mo

CodeEdit

codeedit

8.0

Code editor

Developer Tools 102 installs/mo

Geany

geany

7.5

Small and lightweight IDE

Developer Tools 210 installs/mo

TextMate

textmate

8.0

General-purpose text editor

Developer Tools 415 installs/mo

Lapce

lapce

8.0

Open source code editor written in Rust

Developer Tools 104 installs/mo

Void

void

7.0

AI code editor

Developer Tools 47 installs/mo

TheiaIDE

theiaide

7.0

IDE framework

Developer Tools 18 installs/mo

Notepad.exe

notepadexe

7.0

Lightweight code editor

Developer Tools 299 installs/mo

Kate

kate

7.0

Multi-document editor by KDE

Developer Tools 403 installs/mo

Phoenix Code

phoenix-code

6.0

Code editor

Developer Tools 23 installs/mo

CodeRunner

coderunner

6.0

Multi-language programming editor

Developer Tools 38 installs/mo

Gram

gram

6.5

Code editor focused on stability, without AI, subscriptions, or telemetry

Developer Tools 290 installs/mo

Chime

chime

7.0

Text and code editor

Developer Tools 40 installs/mo

Athas

athas

7.0

Lightweight code editor

Developer Tools 40 installs/mo

HBuilderX

hbuilderx

6.0

HTML editor

Developer Tools 143 installs/mo

CodeBuddy

codebuddy

8.0

AI-powered adaptive IDE

Developer Tools 59 installs/mo

SubEthaEdit

subethaedit

7.0

Plain text and source editor

Developer Tools 15 installs/mo

ZeroBrane Studio

zerobranestudio

8.0

Lua IDE

Developer Tools 7 installs/mo

CodeBuddy CN

codebuddy-cn

6.5

AI-powered adaptive IDE (Chinese version)

Developer Tools 75 installs/mo

CodeBolt

codebolt

6.0

AI Powered Code Editor

Developer Tools 13 installs/mo

Script Debugger

script-debugger

7.0

Integrated development environment focused entirely on AppleScript

Developer Tools 10 installs/mo