IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE for professional Java and Kotlin development, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Alternatives to Rapid PHP Editor
PaizaCloud Cloud IDE is a browser-based development environment with an editor, web server, database server, and terminal in a cloud workspace.
Zed is a code editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with a free Personal plan and paid Pro and Business options.
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Geany
Geany is a free, lightweight integrated development environment for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Free planOpen sourceLinuxmacOSWindows7.4Free 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
ICEcoder
ICEcoder is a browser-based code editor for building, testing, and maintaining websites.
Free planAndroidWebAPILinux7.1Free plan - 7
Scriptcase
Scriptcase is a low-code PHP platform for developing web applications from databases.
WebAPILinuxmacOS6.9From $399.20 a year - 8
SlickEdit
SlickEdit is a cross-platform code editor for working across programming languages, with SlickEdit 2025 listing support for more than 70 languages on…
LinuxmacOSWindows6.7$125 one-time - 9

Nova
Nova is a Mac-native code editor and IDE for editing, debugging, version control, and remote files.
macOS6.6 - 10

Kate
Kate is a free text editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows, suited to both general text files and code.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.5Free plan - 11

Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans is a development environment, tooling platform, and application framework for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.4Free plan - 12

NuSphere PhpED
NuSphere PhpED is an integrated development environment for PHP, HTML, CSS, XML, Smarty, XHTML, and other languages.
LinuxmacOSWindows6.3$81 one-time - 136.3€39 one-time
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Bluefish
Bluefish is a free desktop code editor for programmers and web developers creating websites, scripts, and other programming code.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.2Free plan - 15

CodeLite
CodeLite is a free, open-source IDE for developing with C, C++, Rust, PHP, and Node.js; project materials also describe a focus on Python.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.2Free plan - 16
OpenIDE
OpenIDE is a multilingual development environment based on the IntelliJ IDEA Platform, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.2Free plan - 17
Eclipse PHP Development Tools
Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) is a free, open-source PHP IDE framework for Eclipse, intended for developing PHP-based web applications and…
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows6.1Free plan - 18

PhpStorm
LinuxmacOSWindows6.1 - 19
PHP Expert Editor
PHP Expert Editor is a Windows IDE for PHP development that also supports Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript, and other languages.
Windows5.9€35 one-time - 20

WeBuilder
WeBuilder is a Windows code editor for web developers working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, ASP, SSI, and Perl.
Windows5.9$69.95 one-time - 21
PHP Studio
PHP Studio is a simple online PHP editor designed to be hosted on a system and opened in a browser.
WebSelf-hosted5.6 - 22
UEStudio
UEStudio is a paid Windows software product that includes Xdebug debugging and remote development support.
Windows5.3From $119.95 a year

