Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Xcode

Xcode

Xcode is Apple’s powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode 4 includes the Xcode IDE, instruments, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.

Product categories

App Development Data Science IDE Developer Tools Development Tools IDE Python IDE Python Text Editor Software Development Text Editors Web Development Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Xcode are Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, and Vim. 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.

Visual Studio Code Landing Page
1

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
2

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
Vim Landing Page
3

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
4

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
5

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
GNU Emacs Landing Page
6

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions
Textmate Landing Page
7

Textmate

TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 14 social mentions
Xamarin Landing Page
8

Xamarin

Create iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Development Tools 26 social mentions
Aptana Studio Landing Page
9

Aptana Studio

The world’s most powerful open-source web development IDE just got better. Rebuilt from the ground-up. It's now much faster, customizable and includes new features to help you be more productive.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development
CLion Landing Page
10

CLion

A cross-platform IDE for C and C++
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development
CodeLite Landing Page
11

CodeLite

CodeLite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++/PHP and Node.js programming languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 8 social mentions
Spyder Landing Page
12

Spyder

The Scientific Python Development Environment
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Python IDE #Data Science IDE #Python Text Editor 2 social mentions