🛠️ Vibe Coding Tools and Platforms
Browser-based Tools
- Bolt.new: Allows you to prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web and mobile apps. It can also import designs from Figma and convert them into code. (https://bolt.new/)
- Lovable.dev: Enables building and deploying entire apps using AI prompts, with the ability to select parts of an app for specific changes. It integrates with Supabase for authentication and database operations and can connect to GitHub repos. (https://lovable.dev/)
- v0 by Vercel: An assistant specifically for building NextJS frontends. (https://v0.dev/chat)
- Replit: An online platform where you can describe your idea and let the AI Agent build it for you. It offers AI features like Ghostwriter. Replit Agent can turn prompts into deployable web apps quickly. (https://replit.com/)
- Create.xyz: For turning words into sites, tools, apps, and products. (https://www.create.xyz/)
- Trickle AI: Used for building websites, AI apps, and forms. (https://www.trickle.so/)
- Tempo (Tempo.new): Designed for building React apps quickly with AI, offering authentication and backend choices, PRD generation, and user flow diagrams. (https://www.tempo.new/)
- Softgen.ai: Allows building full-stack web apps by describing your vision and giving instructions. (https://softgen.ai/)
- Lazy AI: For building reliable business apps with prompts. (https://getlazy.ai/)
- HeyBoss.xyz: Enables building apps and sites in minutes. (https://www.heyboss.xyz/)
- Creatr (getcreatr.com): For creating and deploying web apps and landing pages rapidly. (https://getcreatr.com/)
- Rork (rork.app): Focused on building mobile apps quickly. (https://rork.app/)
- Firebase Studio: Google’s agentic cloud-based environment for building full-stack AI apps. (https://studio.firebase.google.com/)
- Napkins.dev: Specializes in turning screenshots into code. (https://www.napkins.dev/)
IDEs and Code Editors
- Cursor: A popular AI code editor with deep code comprehension. It offers features like AI-powered code generation, error diagnosis, context-aware autocomplete, voice-based prompting, and one-click deployment. It also has a “Composer” feature for direct AI code changes. (https://www.cursor.com/)
- Windsurf Editor by Codeium: An agentic IDE designed for seamless integration of developer and AI workflows, offering a “magic-like” coding experience. It has a feature to preview the app directly in the code editor. (https://codeium.com/windsurf)
- Zed: A code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI. (https://zed.dev/)
- Trae: A VS Code fork with a good user experience and free tier, but lacking MCP integration and robust context management.
Mobile Apps
- VibeCode: An app that aims to build other apps. (https://www.vibecodeapp.com/)
Plugins and Extensions
- Cline: An AI assistant that integrates with your CLI and Editor (for VS Code), focusing on task automation and UI modifications with a “code prediction” feature. (https://cline.bot/)
- Roo Code: A fork of Cline with extra features. (https://github.com/RooVetGit/Roo-Code)
- avante.nvim: A Neovim plugin that emulates Cursor AI IDE behavior. (https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim)
- backnotprop/prompt-tower: A tool to help build prompts with many code blocks. (https://github.com/backnotprop/prompt-tower)
- Augment Code: An AI coding assistant for professional software engineers and large codebases, indexing your codebase for question answering and code completion.
- continuedev/continue: Open-source IDE extensions and a library for building and sharing custom AI code assistants.
- GitHub Copilot: An AI tool offering code completion, chats, and an agent mode within Visual Studio Code.
- Cody (by Sourcegraph): A VS Code extension integrated with Sourcegraph, offering chat and code completion based on powerful search and context management, particularly useful for existing and large codebases with team collaboration.
Command Line Tools
- anthropics/claude-code: A coding agent that understands your codebase, automates tasks, explains code, and manages git via natural language. It persists “memory” in a markdown file. (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code)
- aider: An AI pair programmer that works in your terminal. It uses a conversation-driven development approach. (https://aider.chat/)
- codename goose: A local AI Agent allowing the use of any LLM and MCP servers. (https://block.github.io/goose/)
- MyCoder.ai: An open-source AI coding assistant with Git and GitHub integration, featuring parallel execution and self-modification. (https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder)
- ai-christianson/RA.Aid: A standalone coding agent built on LangGraph’s agent-based task execution framework. (https://github.com/ai-christianson/RA.Aid)
- CodeSelect: A Python-based command-line tool for efficiently communicating project source code to AIs. (https://github.com/maynetee/codeselect)
- OpenAI Codex CLI: OpenAI’s lightweight coding agent for the terminal. (https://github.com/openai/codex)
- Devin (Cognition Labs): An autonomous AI developer that can plan, implement, debug, and test code, accessible through Slack.