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ai code editors

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Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
Cursor for iOS PH 614 2026-06-30
Composer 2.5 PH 435 2026-05-19
Whiteboard (YC W26) HN 421 2026-09-24
Huzzah HN 384 2026-08-20
Cursor 3 PH 372 2026-04-03
Zed 1.0 PH 368 2026-05-01
Xirp PH 276 2026-08-11
keel GITHUB 270 2026-09-22
Emdash HN 206 2026-02-24
bb PH 200 2026-08-11
Invoke PH 182 2026-03-30
Aura: Agents + Git + Intent Open Source PH 174 2026-07-09
49agents IDE PH 126 2026-09-09
Modo HN 103 2026-04-05
Paseo HN 92 2026-06-02
Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE HN 88 2026-03-18
Catenary PH 86 2026-09-08
Reason PH 80 2026-10-05
1Code HN 75 2026-01-15
Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality HN 69 2026-06-08
Aperture PH 62 2026-10-04
pixelcrabs GITHUB 47 2026-09-27
Inspector—AI IDE for front-end YC 38 2025-11-12
Dcode GITHUB 37 2026-09-22
Ara - The World's First Self-driving IDE YC 30 2026-06-01
codesaber GITHUB 29 2026-09-13
eido GITHUB 28 2026-10-08
Zcode-CE GITHUB 25 2026-09-21
SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding HN 25 2026-07-10
kcode GITHUB 22 2026-09-21
I got tired of switching AI tools, so I built an IDE with 11 of them HN 20 2025-12-09
aide GITHUB 20 2026-09-23
The Goal is simple, there should be an actual free editor HN 20 2026-07-31
DrClojure-Neo GITHUB 19 2026-09-19
Mesa HN 16 2026-03-13
lemo-mod GITHUB 16 2026-10-02
kaguya-code GITHUB 16 2026-10-05
Factorai PH 15 2026-10-06
Type.com: Multiplayer Codex/Claude in the cloud for non-tech use cases HN 14 2026-09-09
Claude/Gemini/Codex 10-100x faster with pandō (CAD for code) HN 11 2026-02-26
I left VSCode to build an IDE to handle many projects/agents workflow HN 8 2026-07-28
Aver HN 7 2026-03-11
Recursi HN 6 2026-06-04
I've built a Cursor alternative in browser. AI Coding Agent. HN 6 2025-11-28
Visual HTML HN 6 2026-09-15
Open-Source AI Native IDE Cursor Alternative HN 5 2026-07-02
Crew, a local collaborative (people and agents) IDE HN 5 2026-08-01
AI Native IDE [video] HN 5 2026-04-13
Cate HN 5 2026-06-09
Supervisor IDE: Not your usual IDE, create a team, run tasks flow HN 5 2026-03-02