Vibe coding tools

Vibe coding means building software by describing what you want to an AI and steering the result. These are the 45 tools on VibeShelf for every step, from first prompt to production.

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1. App builders (7)

Describe the app you want and get a working first version, often without touching code.

v0

Vercel's AI app and UI builder that generates React/Next.js.

Free plan + paid

Lovable

Build full-stack web apps by chatting with AI.

Free plan + paid

Bolt.new

Prompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack apps in the browser.

Free plan + paid

Replit

Browser IDE with Replit Agent that builds and deploys apps.

Free plan + paid

Attie

Bluesky's AI site builder for social vibe coding: polls, games, guestbooks and small apps with shareable attie.site links.

Free plan + paid

Firebase Studio

Google's AI workspace for prototyping and building full-stack apps.

Free plan + paid

Base44

No-code AI app builder with built-in backend.

Free plan + paid

2. Coding (17)

When you want to own the code: AI editors and coding agents that write, refactor and fix it with you.

Cursor

AI-first code editor with agentic edits, tab completion and codebase chat.

Free plan + paid

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer for code completion, chat and agent mode in your IDE.

Free plan + paid

Claude Code

Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding tool.

Paid

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI's coding agent for the CLI, IDE and cloud tasks.

Paid

Devin Desktop

Formerly Windsurf: AI IDE with an agent command center for managing local and cloud coding agents.

Free plan + paid

Zed

High-performance code editor with built-in AI assistance.

Free plan + paid

Cline

Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code.

Free

Aider

Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal.

Free

Tabnine

Enterprise AI coding platform with private and air-gapped deployment, now owned by Tricentis; no longer onboards individual users.

Paid

Amp

Coding agent and dev environment that runs unattended in cloud "orbs" or locally via CLI.

Paid

Gemini CLI

Google's open-source AI agent for the terminal.

Free

Muse Code

Meta's terminal coding agent that fans big jobs out to parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees.

Paid

Open-source (MIT), local-first memory layer for coding agents: captures sessions from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode and 20+ harnesses and turns proven fixes into reusable skills via MCP or Agent Skills.

Free

ThinkRail

Free, open-source agentic IDE from JetBrains built around the pi coding agent, with isolated git-worktree workspaces and living SPEC.md files.

Free

Entire

Git forge built for coding agents: Trails replace pull requests with agent-scored evals, plus shared agent memory and fast distributed Git hosting.

Free plan + paid

Paradev

Workspace for running many coding agents in parallel (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and more), each in its own Git worktree, with diff review, scheduled automations, remote hosts and an iPhone app. Formerly Superset.

Free plan + paid

Factory Droid

Factory's enterprise coding agent: Droid runs as a desktop app, terminal UI and SDK, with a programmatic tool-calling engine for long, multi-step tasks.

Paid