Trae Alternatives

Trae is described as 'Adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Trae for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Trae alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Trae are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Vim and Microsoft Visual Studio.

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  1. EmEditor icon
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    Versatile Windows editor offering lightweight, ultra-fast performance with robust support for text, code, and CSV files, AI-assisted writing, macros, Unicode, plugins, syntax highlighting, advanced search, column editing, split views, and file encoding conversion.

    126 EmEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Fresh editor icon
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    High-performance terminal text editor developed in Rust, offering fast startup, low latency, extensibility, customizable keybindings, menu-driven native UI, robust mouse support, powerful command palette, cross-platform support, and syntax highlighting.

    51 Fresh editor alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Melty icon
     3 likes

    Melty is an AI code editor where every chat message is a git commit.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  4. 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
     
  5. Sidekick CLI icon
     1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Dropstone icon
     1 like

    Dropstone AI is a self-learning, AI-powered software development platform that automates aspects of the software engineering lifecycle, aiming to provide unlimited context memory for large codebases and to improve over time through a generational recursive self-improvement model.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  7. 16x Prompt icon
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    16x Prompt helps developers compose the perfect prompt with source code and context for ChatGPT.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Vim Classic icon
     2 likes

    Vim Classic is a fork of Vim 8.x for long-term maintenance, providing a stable, dependable editor — maintained entirely by humans.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS
    • OpenSolaris
    • MorphOS
     
  9. Ouijit icon
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    Custom task and session manager using Git worktrees to organize parallel workflows, integrates with agent CLIs and TUIs through hooks and scripts, provides live agent status, automated environment setup, VM sandboxing for secure code, and session-aware automation.

    51 Ouijit alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. roobuilder icon
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    It's a cross between Glade / Visual Studio — the idea is that most 'action' code for an application is actually quite simple - so entering the code on the event handlers for a widget makes the proximity of code to action better.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  11. Aura IDE icon
     1 like

    An AI coding harness that dogfooded itself into shape: Planner/Worker agents, repo awareness, surgical edits, validation, recovery, and safe diff approvals.

    51 Aura IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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