IDE AI apps

AI coding agent for your IDE and terminal.

Zencoder is an AI coding agent that indexes an entire repository to understand its architecture and dependencies, then writes, tests, and fixes code across the development lifecycle. Its Zen Agents are customizable, shareable autonomous agents for tasks like generating tests, updating dependencies, or opening PRs, while Zentester focuses on automated unit and end-to-end tests. It runs inside popular IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains and via a CLI, supporting 70+ languages.

Local, open-source AI app builder that runs on your machine with your own API keys.

Dyad is a desktop AI app builder — like Lovable, v0, or Bolt, but running locally on your own machine. You describe an app and it scaffolds full-stack web projects, bringing your own keys across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, LM Studio), with built-in Supabase, GitHub, and Vercel integration plus security scanning.

AI UI design that exports production React + Tailwind.

Flowstep is an AI design tool that generates fully editable UI screens from conversational prompts, supports multi-screen flows, and lets you customize the result by hand. It integrates with Figma for handoff and exports production-ready React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS code, aiming to compress the design-to-code kickoff.

AI answer engine for developers — technical search with code and citations.

Phind is a conversational search engine built for developers: it combines live web results with generative AI to answer technical questions, returning explanations, code snippets, and cited sources. It uses multi-step reasoning over documentation and the web, and integrates into the editor via a VS Code extension. A free tier covers everyday use, with Plus and Pro plans adding stronger models, longer context, and higher limits.

Open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.

Qwen Code is a command-line coding agent from Alibaba's Qwen team, adapted from Google's Gemini CLI and tuned for the open-weight Qwen3-Coder models. It runs an interactive or headless terminal UI with agentic features — auto-memory, subagents, agent teams, and MCP support — for codebase comprehension, editing, and multi-step automation. It supports OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Gemini-compatible providers plus local models, and offers a free Qwen OAuth tier alongside bring-your-own-key usage.

Autonomous AI coding agent built into JetBrains IDEs.

JetBrains' agentic coding assistant that plans and executes multi-step tasks — writing code, running tests, refactoring, and debugging — from natural-language prompts inside the IDE. Runs natively in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Pro, WebStorm, GoLand, and other JetBrains editors, drawing on their deep project indexes. Included with JetBrains AI subscriptions.

Alibaba's standalone agentic IDE with project-wide context and a Quest Mode.

An AI-first desktop IDE from Alibaba built around agentic coding rather than autocomplete. It indexes a whole project to reason over dependencies and architecture, offers a conversational Agent Mode for pair programming, and a Quest Mode that takes a written spec, plans the work, and produces tested, production-ready code end to end. A Repo Wiki keeps long-lived context across sessions.

Agentic cloud IDE for building and shipping full-stack AI apps with Gemini.

Firebase Studio is Google's cloud-based, agentic development environment for building and shipping full-stack AI apps from the browser. It unifies the former Project IDX with Gemini-powered agents and the Genkit framework, giving you a full Code OSS editor, app prototyping from natural-language prompts, emulators, and one-click deploy to Firebase App Hosting. It runs entirely in the browser with no local setup. The core environment is free, with optional paid Cloud Billing for hosting and higher quotas.

AWS's generative-AI assistant for software development.

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's generative-AI coding assistant that supports developers across the software lifecycle. It offers inline code completions, agentic chat, automated code transformation for language and framework upgrades, security scanning, and AWS-aware troubleshooting. It runs in popular IDEs, the command line, and the AWS console, with deep integration into AWS services.

AI-native design tool that ships production React + Tailwind code.

Subframe is a code-first design tool where you build interfaces from real, code-backed components on a visual canvas and export clean, production-ready React and Tailwind CSS. Designs map deterministically to code — what you draw is the code you ship — and connect to coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code via MCP. It syncs with Figma and auto-generates a custom design system.

Mistral's AI assistant and coding agent (formerly Le Chat).

Vibe is Mistral AI's consumer assistant — renamed from Le Chat in 2026 — for chat, web search with citations, document and image analysis, image generation, and a built-in code interpreter. It now doubles as a coding agent with IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains, Zed) and a CLI. Free to use, with Pro, Team, and Enterprise tiers, running on Mistral's own European-built models.

AI code review and stacked pull requests for fast-moving engineering teams.

Graphite is a code-review platform built around stacked pull requests and Diamond, an AI reviewer that comments on PRs with senior-engineer rigor — catching bugs, style issues, and architectural concerns. It layers a merge queue, a CLI, a VS Code extension, and a collaborative review interface on top of GitHub-based workflows, and now runs agents directly inside the PR.

Open-source autonomous coding agent inside VS Code.

VS Code extension that turns the editor into an agentic coder with real file-system access, terminal control, and multi-step task execution. It ships role-specific modes — Architect, Code, Ask, Debug, Test — each with its own prompt and tool permissions, and can hand off between them mid-task. Model-agnostic: connect any provider key, from frontier APIs to a local model, and pay only for your own token usage.

The Cursor for designers — edit React apps visually in real code.

Onlook is an open-source visual editor that lets designers and developers build and edit Next.js + Tailwind apps directly on an infinite canvas while the actual codebase stays the source of truth. You drag, style and tweak live React components and Onlook writes the corresponding code, with AI assistance for larger changes. It can be self-hosted for free, with a managed cloud version for teams.

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI.

Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that plans, writes, edits, and runs code inside your editor. It offers specialized modes — Code, Architect, Ask, Debug, and Orchestrator — works across VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and the CLI, and supports 500+ models with bring-your-own-key and zero markup. A free tier plus paid cloud and team options round it out.

Charm's glamorous agentic AI coding agent for your terminal.

A terminal-based AI coding agent from Charm, the team behind Bubble Tea and other CLI tools. It plans and edits files, runs commands, and pulls code context via LSP, all inside a polished TUI. It is model-agnostic: bring your own keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, OpenRouter, and other providers, and switch models mid-session.

AI code review with full-codebase context on every pull request.

Greptile builds a graph index of your repository and runs a swarm of agents over each pull request, catching cross-file logic bugs, security risks, and style violations that diff-only reviewers miss. It learns team standards from past review comments, enforces custom rules written in plain English, and reviews PRs on GitHub and GitLab, with TREX generating and running tests per PR.

Turn prompts and sketches into UI designs and frontend code.

An AI design tool from Google Labs that generates app and website interfaces from natural-language prompts, images, wireframes, or sketches. It produces multiple design variants, exports clean layouts to Figma, and outputs frontend code (HTML/CSS, Tailwind), with a voice-driven Live Mode for real-time adjustments. Powered by Gemini's multimodal capabilities and free with generous limits while in beta.

The open-source, provider-agnostic AI coding agent for your terminal, IDE, or desktop.

OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent from Anomaly, the team behind SST. It runs in the terminal, a desktop app, or an IDE extension, connects to 75+ model providers through Models.dev — frontier APIs and local models alike — and stores none of your code on external servers. The optional paid Zen gateway adds a curated, benchmarked model set under one bill.

Up-to-date, version-specific library docs piped into any AI coding agent via MCP.

An MCP server from Upstash that pulls current, version-specific documentation and code examples for a library and feeds them straight into an LLM's context. It exposes two tools — resolve-library-id and a docs query — so agents in Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and other MCP clients generate code against the real, current API.

Spec-driven agentic IDE — turn prompts into specs, then code.

Kiro is AWS's agentic IDE that brings engineering rigor to AI coding. Instead of vibe-coding straight to a diff, it first generates durable spec artifacts — requirements, a technical design, and a task list — then implements them. Agent hooks automate routine actions on file events, and it runs on Claude models.

Privacy-first AI coding assistant you control — completions, chat, and agents.

An AI coding assistant built for enterprise control, offering completions, chat, and agentic workflows across all major IDEs. It never trains on or retains your code, and can be deployed as SaaS, in a VPC, on-premises, or fully air-gapped. Supports access to major LLMs plus bring-your-own and private models.

AI code review and test generation across IDE, PRs, and CLI.

Qodo (formerly CodiumAI) is a code-quality platform that runs AI review on pull requests, generates tests, and assists inside the editor. Its multi-agent reviewer pulls context from the codebase and PR history across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, with VS Code and JetBrains plugins plus a CLI so issues surface before merge.

Google's open-source Gemini AI agent, in your terminal.

An open-source command-line agent that brings Gemini into the terminal for coding, debugging, content generation, and research. Ships built-in Google Search grounding, Model Context Protocol support, and project context via a GEMINI.md file, plus a non-interactive mode for scripting and CI. Free to use by signing in with a personal Google account, with paid options through AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Gemini Code Assist.

OpenAI's open-source coding agent for the terminal.

A lightweight, open-source coding agent that runs locally in your terminal, reading your repository, editing files, and running commands in a conversational loop you review in real time. Built in Rust for speed, it supports Model Context Protocol tools, subagents for parallel tasks, and switching between GPT models. Sign in with a ChatGPT plan (Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, or Enterprise) or use an OpenAI API key.

Self-hosted AI coding assistant — an on-prem Copilot alternative.

Open-source, self-hosted code-completion and answer engine that teams run on their own infrastructure for full data control. Ships IDE extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, and Vim plus an in-IDE chat. The core is Apache-2.0; enterprise features (SSO, seats) live in a separately licensed 'ee/' directory.

Async coding agent that clones your repo and ships PRs.

Jules is Google's asynchronous coding agent. It clones your GitHub repository into a secure Google Cloud VM, understands the full project context, then writes tests, fixes bugs, and makes multi-file changes in the background before opening a pull request. A Jules Tools CLI and a Jules API extend it into your own workflows.

AI pair programmer in your editor — completions, chat, and agents.

The original in-editor AI coding assistant, offering multi-line completions, chat with codebase context, agent mode, and a cloud coding agent that opens pull requests. Runs across VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, the CLI, and GitHub.com. A free tier covers light use; paid tiers add premium models and more allowance.

Free AI-native IDE with an autonomous build mode.

VS Code-based AI IDE from ByteDance whose Builder/SOLO agent plans tasks, edits across files, runs commands, and previews results. Bundles access to frontier models like Claude, GPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek without requiring your own API key, on free and paid usage tiers.

Agent-native software development with autonomous 'Droids'.

An agent-native platform for software development built around 'Droids' — autonomous coding agents that plan, edit, and run tasks across a codebase. Works from a CLI/SDK and runs agents both in the cloud and locally in the background. Model-agnostic across frontier and open-weight models.

Agentic development platform built on a VS Code fork.

Google's agent-first IDE where autonomous agents plan, execute, and verify coding tasks across the editor, terminal, and browser. A Manager view orchestrates multiple agents in parallel, and agents produce Artifacts — task lists, plans, screenshots, browser recordings — so you can check their work at a glance. Launched in public preview alongside Gemini 3.

Agentic coding tool from Sourcegraph for terminal and editor.

Amp is an agentic coding tool from Sourcegraph that works in the terminal and across editors, autonomously editing code and running tasks. It routes between frontier models across deep, smart, and fast modes, and centers on shareable 'threads' so teammates can view and search each other's agent sessions.

Agentic coding assistant tuned for large, multi-repo codebases.

Augment Code is an AI coding platform whose Context Engine indexes large, multi-repo codebases so its completions, chat, and agents reason across cross-file dependencies. It runs as a VS Code and JetBrains extension, a CLI, and asynchronous remote agents, and targets engineering teams working in enterprise-scale repositories.

Natural-language interface that lets LLMs run code locally in your terminal.

Gives LLMs a ChatGPT-like terminal interface to write and execute Python, JavaScript, Shell, and more on your own machine, asking approval before each run. It works with hosted models or fully local models via Ollama, LM Studio, or Jan using a --local flag. Free and open source under AGPL-3.0; you supply your own model (API key or local).

Cloud IDE + Agent that builds, runs, and deploys from a prompt.

A browser IDE with Replit Agent — describe an app and it scaffolds, codes, runs, and deploys it, with a hosted database and one-click publish. Zero local setup, ships from anywhere.

On-machine AI agent for coding, workflows, and automation.

An extensible AI agent from Block that runs natively on your machine as a desktop app or CLI, executing code and automating engineering tasks via MCP extensions. It supports 15+ LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, and more) using your own keys. Free and open source under Apache 2.0.

The fast, open-source AI code editor in Rust, from the Atom creators.

A GPU-accelerated, Rust-built editor with first-class agentic AI — parallel agents, edit prediction, and an open Agent Client Protocol that plugs into Claude, GPT, Gemini, MCP servers, and external CLI agents like Claude Code. Fully open source (GPL-3); BYO key or an optional hosted Pro tier.

Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI.

An open-source AI coding assistant delivered as a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin, and a CLI, with chat, autocomplete, and agent workflows. It runs locally in your editor and works with any model provider, including local models via Ollama, using your own keys. The core is Apache-2.0 and free; the company also offers a hosted Continue Hub for sharing and managing assistants.

Agentic development environment born out of the terminal.

A modern terminal and agent platform — multi-agent orchestration, codebase indexing, a built-in editor (Warp Code), and granular permission controls for running coding agents. Adds the Oz cloud layer for remote agent execution and team knowledge via Warp Drive. Free tier with monthly AI credits; paid Build/Max/Business plans add more credits and BYOK.

AI-first code editor. Multi-model, tab-completion native.

Fork of VS Code with deep model integration — multi-line tab completion, agent mode, chat with codebase context. Strong for fast iteration on existing repos.

Autonomous software engineer agent. Plans, codes, ships from a prompt.

Cognition's hosted SWE agent. Operates inside its own sandbox with a browser, terminal, and editor — plans the work, writes the code, and submits a PR. Aimed at long-horizon tickets rather than tab-completions.

Agent-first IDE with the Cascade planning agent.

Agent-first IDE that pairs autocomplete with Cascade, a planning-then-acting agent. Strong terminal integration; good when the diff spans many files.

Anthropic's official CLI / IDE / web agent.

Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It reads the spec, drafts the diff, runs the tests, and opens the PR — across the CLI, IDE extensions, the desktop app, and the web.

Open-source autonomous coding agent in VS Code. BYO key.

Community-maintained VS Code extension that turns the editor into an agent surface — reads the repo, runs commands, edits files, and verifies its work. Pairs naturally with Claude. Formerly known as Claude Dev.

Terminal-native pair programmer. BYO key, BYO model.

Open-source CLI for AI pair-programming directly against your git repo. Brings any model (Claude, Gemini, GPT, local) into a tight commit-per-task loop.