Cursor is a coding agent for building software, with a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Alternatives to 10x Editor
Zed is a code editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with a free Personal plan and paid Pro and Business options.
Geany is a free, lightweight integrated development environment for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Lapce
Lapce is a free, open-source code editor written in Rust for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Free planOpen sourceExtensionLinuxmacOSWindows7.4Free plan - 5

Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source code editor with AI-assisted development tools for macOS, Linux, Windows and the web.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSWindows7.4Free plan - 6
Neovim
Neovim is a free, Vim-based text editor designed for extensibility and usability.
Free planAndroidAPILinuxmacOS7.3Free plan - 7
GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is a free, extensible text editor built around an interpreter for Emacs Lisp.
Free planAndroidLinuxmacOSWindows7.2Free plan - 8
BBEdit
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for macOS aimed at writers, web authors, and software developers.
Free planmacOS7.0Free plan - 9
Lite XL
Lite XL is a free, lightweight text editor written in C and Lua, with a bundle smaller than 5MB.
Free planAndroidWebLinuxmacOS7.0Free plan - 10
Bluefish
Bluefish is a free, open-source desktop editor for programmers and web developers writing websites, scripts, and code.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.9Free plan - 11
Micro
Micro is a free terminal-based text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.9Free plan - 12
Textastic
iOSmacOS6.9 - 13
TextMate
Free planmacOS6.9Free plan - 14
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VSCodium
VSCodium is a free, community-driven desktop distribution of Microsoft's VS Code editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.7Free plan - 16

Nova
Nova is a Mac-native code editor and IDE for editing, debugging, version control, and remote files.
macOS6.6 - 17
Textadept
Textadept is a free, open-source text editor for programmers, with graphical and terminal interfaces for Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.6Free plan - 18

CudaText
CudaText is a free, open-source text editor written in Object Pascal for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 19

EditPlus
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GNU nano
GNU nano is a free text editor made as an alternative to Pico, with additional editing functions while aiming to remain compatible with it.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 21
Vim
Vim is a configurable text editor for creating and changing text, with uses including programming, composing email and editing configuration files.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 22
jEdit
jEdit is a Java-based text editor for programmers, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with support also listed for Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, VMS, and OS/2.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.4Free plan - 23
Kakoune
Free planLinuxmacOS6.4Free plan - 24

Pulsar
Pulsar is a free, open-source desktop text editor and a community-led fork of the discontinued Atom editor.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.4Free plan - 256.3Free plan
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Notepad++
Free planWindows6.3Free plan - 27
PSPad
PSPad is a free Windows text and code editor from a maker based in the Czech Republic.
Free planWindows6.3Free plan - 28

Helix
Helix is a free text editor designed for terminal use on Linux, macOS and Windows.
LinuxmacOSWindows6.1 - 29

RJ TextEd
RJ TextEd is a code and text editor for many programming languages, with particular attention to web development.
Free planLinuxWindows6.1Free plan - 30
code-server
WebLinuxmacOS4.8
