Sidekick CLI Alternatives

Sidekick CLI is described as 'Sidekick is an agentic CLI-based AI tool inspired by Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf and Cursor. It's meant to be an open source alternative to these tools, providing a similar experience but with the flexibility of using different LLM providers while keeping the agentic' and is a ai coding assistant in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Sidekick CLI for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Visual Studio Code and Web-based apps. The best Sidekick CLI alternative is Zed Editor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sidekick CLI are Void, Windsurf Editor, Cursor and Firebase Studio.

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  1. Bolt.new icon
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    Bolt.new is an in-browser AI web development agent that leverages StackBlitz’s WebContainers to allow for full stack application development. The application presents users with a simple, chat-based environment in which one prompts an agent to make code changes that are updated...

    95 Bolt.new alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. Twinny icon
     9 likes

    The most no-nonsense locally hosted (or API hosted) AI code completion plugin for Visual Studio Code, like GitHub Copilot but 100% free and 100% private.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  3. Trag icon
     7 likes

    Trag enhances code review efficiency through AI, allowing specific instructions and pattern linting. Requires GitHub integration, free for open-source uses. Saves substantial engineer time by providing AI-reviewed code ahead of manual inspection.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. Rivet AI icon
     13 likes

    Visual AI programming platform with a graphical interface for creating, editing, and debugging LLM agent workflows, supporting real-time collaboration, YAML-based version control, open-source TypeScript library integration, and scalable deployment in production environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. TabNine icon
     19 likes

    Auto-completion for any programming language, using machine-learning.

    72 TabNine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Supermaven icon
     8 likes

    Supermaven is a coding assistant that uses AI to help you write code faster. Breeze through code refactoring with Supermaven's fast and accurate suggestions.

    73 Supermaven alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  7. CodeGeeX icon
     22 likes

    CodeGeeX is an AI-based coding assistant, which can suggest code in the current or following lines. It is powered by a large-scale multilingual code generation model with 13 billion parameters, pretrained on a large code corpus of more than 20 programming languages.

    61 CodeGeeX alternatives

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    Application type

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. Amazon CodeWhisperer is a general purpose, machine learning-powered code generator that provides you with code recommendations in real time. As you write code, CodeWhisperer automatically generates suggestions based on your existing code and comments.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. aider icon
     7 likes

    Aider is a command line tool that lets you pair program with GPT-3.5/GPT-4, to edit code stored in your local git repository. Aider will directly edit the code in your local source files, and git commit the changes with sensible commit messages.

    69 aider alternatives

    Cost / License

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Nut Chat icon
     3 likes

    Open source tool centered on AI-driven full stack app development, Nut generates bug analysis via Replay.io recordings and runtime behavior capturing, offering AI developers explanations for effective resolutions. Early adopters enjoy free access for feedback contributions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Clinde icon
     5 likes

    Experience powerful AI without limits. Use our desktop app for everyday AI assistance, or boost your coding productivity with our JetBrains plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Clinde is the most popular commercial alternative to Sidekick CLI.

    • Clinde is Paid and ProprietarySidekick CLI is Free and Open Source
  12. Sweep icon
     5 likes

    Sweep is an AI junior developer that turns bugs and feature requests into code changes. Sweep automatically handles devex improvements like adding typehints/improving test coverage. 🤖

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • GitHub
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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