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Alternatives to Zed

Zed is a minimal code editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows that combines a built-in debugger, remote development, language server support, and native Git operations. Extensions, multi-cursor editing, macros, and column editing cover common coding workflows, while teammates can chat, code together, and share screens and projects. Its Personal plan is free forever with 2,000 accepted edit predictions and unlimited use through API keys or external agents. Pro costs $10 per…

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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.

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Neovim

Neovim is a free, Vim-based text editor designed for extensibility and usability.

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GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is a free, extensible text editor built around an interpreter for Emacs Lisp.

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Geany
Geany is a free, lightweight integrated development environment for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Free planOpen sourceLinuxmacOSWindows
7.9Free plan
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EmEditor
EmEditor is a Windows text editor for text and code, including very large files.
Free planWindows
7.7From $5 a month
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BBEdit
BBEdit is a professional HTML and text editor for macOS aimed at writers, web authors, and software developers.
Free planmacOS
7.6Free plan
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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 planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.5Free plan
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ICEcoder
ICEcoder is a browser-based code editor for building, testing, and maintaining websites.
Free planAndroidWebAPILinux
7.5Free plan
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Lapce
Lapce is a free, open-source code editor written in Rust for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Free planOpen sourceExtensionLinuxmacOSWindows
7.5Free plan
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UltraEdit
UltraEdit is a paid text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
LinuxmacOSWindows
7.4
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Lite XL
Lite XL is a free, lightweight text editor written in C and Lua, with a bundle smaller than 5MB.
Free planAndroidWebLinuxmacOS
7.4Free plan
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Sublime Text
Sublime Text is a text editor for code, markup, and prose, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
LinuxmacOSWindows
7.3
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Bluefish
Bluefish is a free, open-source desktop editor for programmers and web developers writing websites, scripts, and code.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.3Free plan
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Micro
Micro is a free terminal-based text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.3Free plan
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JCppEdit
Free planWindows
7.3Free plan
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Vim
Vim is a configurable text editor for creating and changing text, with uses including programming, composing email and editing configuration files.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.2Free plan
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Kate
Kate is a free text editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows, suited to both general text files and code.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.2Free plan
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SlickEdit
SlickEdit is a cross-platform code editor for working across programming languages, with SlickEdit 2025 listing support for more than 70 languages on…
LinuxmacOSWindows
7.2$125 one-time
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CudaText
CudaText is a free, open-source text editor written in Object Pascal for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.1Free plan
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Textastic
iOSmacOS
7.1
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TextMate
Free planmacOS
7.1Free plan
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Notepad++
Free planWindows
7.0Free plan
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Pulsar
Pulsar is a free, open-source desktop text editor and a community-led fork of the discontinued Atom editor.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
7.0Free plan
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Nova
Nova is a Mac-native code editor and IDE for editing, debugging, version control, and remote files.
macOS
6.9
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RJ TextEd
RJ TextEd is a code and text editor for many programming languages, with particular attention to web development.
Free planLinuxWindows
6.8Free plan
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SciTE
SciTE is a Scintilla-based text editor that can also compile or run source files and show command output in its output pane.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.8Free plan
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EditPlus
Windows
6.8$35 one-time
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Cursor Origin
Cursor Origin is a git forge for storing and sharing code, released in early beta with access opening in stages.
WebAPILinuxmacOS
6.8
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Helix
Helix is a free text editor designed for terminal use on Linux, macOS and Windows.
LinuxmacOSWindows
6.7
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PSPad
PSPad is a free Windows text and code editor from a maker based in the Czech Republic.
Free planWindows
6.7Free plan
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