Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to IDLE

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to IDLE are Thonny, Spyder, and Visual Studio Code. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Thonny Landing Page
1

Thonny

Python IDE for beginners
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Python IDE #IDE 108 social mentions
Spyder Landing Page
2

Spyder

The Scientific Python Development Environment
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Python IDE #Data Science IDE #Python Text Editor 2 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
3

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
4

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Leo Editor Landing Page
5

Leo Editor

Text and code editor where Outlines are first class citizen.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Python IDE #Text Editors #IDE 13 social mentions
bpython Landing Page
6

bpython

bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating systems (I hear it...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Python IDE #Text Editors #IDE 7 social mentions
ptpython Landing Page
7

ptpython

a better Python REPL
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Python IDE #Text Editors #IDE 11 social mentions
WinPython Landing Page
8

WinPython

The easiest way to run Python, Spyder with SciPy and friends out of the box on any Windows PC...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Python IDE #Text Editors #IDE 19 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
9

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
10

Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
11

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Mu Editor Landing Page
12

Mu Editor

Python code editor for beginner programmers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Python IDE 1 social mentions