Instead of IntelliJ IDEA, try one of these 4.
Every alternative is lined up against IntelliJ IDEA on what people actually switch for: price, open source, self-hosting, offline use and platforms. IntelliJ IDEA sits in the first row, so you can see what you give up.
How to read this. “Yes” means fully supported by the maker. “Partial” means it works with caveats. Likes reflect community popularity; vendors can’t pay for them or for placement. Our pick, marked in lime, is the option we would point most people leaving IntelliJ IDEA to first. How we compare.
IntelliJ IDEA alternatives at a glance
IntelliJ IDEA is a freemium code editors app (ultimate from $17/mo). We compared 4 alternatives: 4 are open source, 4 are completely free, 0 can be self-hosted and 4 work fully offline. The most popular is Visual Studio Code, with 4.1k likes.
The most popular code editor, with a huge extension marketplace.
Free · Open source · Works offlineModal text editor that never leaves your terminal.
Free · Open source · Works offlineGPU-accelerated collaborative code editor in Rust.
Free · Open source · Works offlineVeteran open-source IDE for Java and more.
Free · Open source · Works offline