Cursor Alternatives

Cursor is described as 'The AI-first Code Editor. Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI' and is a popular ai coding assistant in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Cursor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Visual Studio Code apps. The best Cursor alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Cursor are VSCodium, Zed Editor, opencode and Claude Code.

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Cursor alternatives are mainly AI Coding Assistants, but if you're looking for Code Editors or IDEs you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source and EU. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Cursor.
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  1. VSCode Links icon
     3 likes

    With a js config file you can define new links in VSCode and make them behave how you want. For example you could make a string like "api.general.users.getUser" be clickable and directly jump to the right function in the right file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Visual Studio Code
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  2. bolt.diy icon
     5 likes

    bolt.diy, the official open source version of Bolt.new (previously known as oTToDev and bolt.new ANY LLM), which allows you to choose the LLM that you use for each prompt!.

    25 bolt.diy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  3. CatDoes icon
     4 likes

    CatDoes is your AI-powered app development partner that turns conversations into production-ready mobile apps. Just describe what you want, AI agents will handle the rest.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. The copilot-complete function demonstrates that ~100 lines of LISP is all it takes for Emacs to do that thing GitHub Copilot and VSCode are famous for doing except superior w.r.t. both quality and freedom

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • GNU Emacs
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  5. Spec Coder icon
     3 likes

    Spec Coder is an AI-powered coding assistant that integrates with Visual Studio Code to make your development workflow faster and more efficient. It provides a variety of features, including code completion, code generation, unit test generation, and AI chat, to help you write...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    Good alternative?
     
  6. YouCompleteMe is a fast, as-you-type, fuzzy-search code completion, comprehension and refactoring engine for Vim.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vim
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  7. Frontman is an AI Agent that lives in your browser, sees your live DOM, and turns your visual feedback into real changes - no more refresh-and-check cycles.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Next.js
    • Wordpress
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  8. jedi-vim icon
     2 likes

    Python auto-completion plugin for vim.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vim
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  9. Moxby icon
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    Work browser that combines your browser, IDE, AI agents, docs, tasks, and automations in one workspace, and lets you modify any website you use.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  10. AI-driven no-code platform to create full-stack web apps quickly, featuring instant one-click deployment, integrated hosting, domain tools, professional email, real-time editing, version control, and rapid live publishing with a streamlined three-step process.

    84 Hostinger Horizons alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11.  2 likes

    avante.nvim is a Neovim plugin designed to emulate the behaviour of the Cursor AI IDE. It provides users with AI-driven code suggestions and the ability to apply these recommendations directly to their source files with minimal effort.

    51 avante.nvim alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Neovim
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  12. OpenPrompt icon
     5 likes

    Copy Entire Folder to ChatGPT. Hit on Star to BookMark this Page ! Newer Release will be even Better.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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