Alternative apps to Visual Studio:
  • 17 votes
    Visual Studio Code 1.128.0
    VS Code is Microsoft's free source code editor that supports debugging, Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, and code refactoring.
    • Freeware
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 514 votes
    Visual Studio 2019 16.11.55
    Build for any platform in any language with Visual Studio 2019. IDE, DevOps, code editor and more.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 22 votes
    Eclipse IDE 2025-12
    Eclipse IDE is a leading open platform for professional developers.
    • Freeware
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 66 votes
    Sublime Text 4.4205
    Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
    • Free to Try
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 17 votes
    Apache NetBeans 29.1
    Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile, and web applications with Java, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, C/C++ and more.
    • Freeware
    • Windows, macOS, Linux
  • 4.2/5
    5 votes
    Git for Windows 2.54.0
    Git allows and encourages you to have multiple local branches that can be entirely independent of each other.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 15 votes
    SharpDevelop 5.1.0.5216
    SharpDevelop is the open-source IDE for the .NET platform.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 4.7/5
    3 votes
    Zeus IDE 3.99e
    An IDE letting you code like Mozart rather than coding nursery rhymes.
    • Free to Try
    • Windows
  • 7 votes
    MonoDevelop 6.12.0
    MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and web applications on Linux, Windows and macOS.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • Not rated yet
    0 votes
    PrimalScript 2019
    The leading Universal Scripting IDE for all your administrative and web-development tasks.
    • Free to Try
    • Windows