IntelliJ IDEA Alternatives

IntelliJ IDEA is described as 'The JetBrains IDE for pro development in Java and Kotlin. Built for your comfort, it unlocks productivity, ensures quality code, supports cutting-edge tech, and protects your privacy' and is a very popular IDE in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to IntelliJ IDEA for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best IntelliJ IDEA alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like IntelliJ IDEA are VSCodium, Eclipse, Zed Editor and Microsoft Visual Studio.

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  1. Aptana Studio icon
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    Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. Includes support for PHP, CSS, FTP, and more...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Xcode icon
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    Xcode offers the tools you need to develop, test, and distribute apps for Apple platforms, including predictive code completion, generative intelligence powered by the best coding models and agents, advanced profiling and debugging tools, and simulators for Apple devices.

    53 Xcode alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  3. Eclipse Theia icon
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    With Theia you can develop one IDE and run it in browsers or native desktop application from a single source. Theia is designed in a modular way to allow extenders and adopters customizing and extending every aspect of it.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Electron
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  4. Lapce icon
     27 likes

    Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.

    204 Lapce alternatives

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  5. Zasper icon
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    A powerful IDE for data science, Zasper excels with massive concurrency support, enabling numerous simultaneous connections, minimal memory usage, and speedy performance. Suited for REPL-style data apps like Jupyter notebooks, fully supported on Mac with limited Linux support.

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    • Mac
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  6. GitHub Codespaces is an instant, cloud-based development environment that uses a container to provide you with common languages, tools, and utilities for development. GitHub Codespaces is also configurable, allowing you to create a customized development environment for your...

    27 Github Codespaces alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • GitHub
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  7. Squircle CE icon
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    Squircle CE is a fast, lightweight code editor and file manager with support for over 30 programming languages, remote file access via SFTP/FTP(S) and Git VCS integration. Whether you're a student, hobbyist, or professional developer, Squircle CE lets you write, manage, and...

    86 Squircle CE alternatives

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  8. DevPod icon
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    DevPod is infrastructure-independent and client-only, which makes it incredibly easy to get started with. Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated. Works with any infra, any programming language, any IDE, etc.

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  9. Notepad.exe icon
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    Lightweight macOS code editor. Skip the setup, write code, run instantly. Built-in iOS simulator, AI assistance, and Linux support.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. Phoenix Code icon
     12 likes

    Phoenix Code is a text editor designed to make coding as intuitive and fun as playing a video game - specially crafted for web developers, designers, and students.

    43 Phoenix Code alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11. Cosmic IDE icon
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    There are a lot of cases where you want to quickly test some Java code but don't have your computer open besides you. You open your browser and search for some website for this purpose. But you're neither guaranteed to have internet all the time (do you?

    55 Cosmic IDE alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  12. CodeLobster - Free portable PHP IDE with support Drupal, Smarty, WordPress, Joomla, JQuery, CodeIgniter, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CakePHP, Facebook, Symfony

    68 CodeLobster PHP Edition alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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