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20 Devin Desktop alternatives

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is Cognition's AI IDE for running and reviewing local and cloud coding agents. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Coding Agent, IDE and Desktop App, ranked by how much they have in common with Devin Desktop.

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  1. Alibaba Group

    Alibaba's agentic coding platform — a desktop IDE where a lead agent dispatches specialist sub-agents, backed by an auto-generated wiki of your repository.

    Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, IDE, Multi-agent

  2. JetBrains

    JetBrains AI Assistant adds project-aware chat, code completion and agents like Junie, Claude Agent and Codex to JetBrains IDEs.

    Also: Autocomplete, Coding Agent, IDE

  3. Cursor is an AI-powered IDE built to significantly speed up software development.

    Also: Autocomplete, Coding Agent, IDE

  4. Google

    Google's agent-first development platform, where you manage a fleet of coding agents across editor, terminal, and browser.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE, Multi-agent

  5. Zed Industries

    A GPU-accelerated code editor written in Rust, with collaborative editing and coding agents built into the core.

    Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, IDE

  6. Agentic desktop IDE for designers and programmers — edit a running app visually, drive an AI agent inside the repo, and manage Git without leaving the editor.

    Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, IDE

  7. Ad-supported coding agent suite — CLI, parallel desktop workspaces, cloud IDE and a prompt-to-deploy web builder, with no subscription or API key.

    Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, IDE

  8. Spotify

    Spotify's vendor-neutral workspace for running dozens of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI sessions in parallel with shared context.

    Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, Multi-agent

  9. Block

    Block's open-source desktop workspace for AI agents — one native app for Goose, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Amp and Cursor.

    Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, Multi-agent

  10. Agentic AI Foundation

    Open-source AI agent from the Agentic AI Foundation — a native desktop app, CLI and API that runs tasks locally with 70+ MCP extensions.

    Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, MCP

  11. Cognition AI

    Windsurf Plugins (formerly Codeium) add AI autocomplete and chat to JetBrains, VS Code, Vim, Visual Studio, Jupyter and Eclipse.

    Also: Autocomplete, IDE

  12. AWS

    Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) is AWS's AI coding assistant; its IDE plugins end support in April 2027 in favour of Kiro.

    Also: Autocomplete, Coding Agent

  13. JetBrains s.r.o.

    JetBrains' agent platform: run Claude Agent, Codex, Junie or Copilot in the cloud, then review every diff inside your IDE.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  14. Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal — 500+ models at provider cost, task-specific modes, parallel agents in isolated git worktrees.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  15. Agentic IDE that runs coding agents, self-healing QA tests and production monitoring in one workspace so fixes reach a PR automatically.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  16. Amazon Web Services

    AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE, CLI and web workspace: prompts become requirements, design docs and tracked tasks before any code is written.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  17. ByteDance

    An AI-native IDE with a builder mode that takes a project from prompt to running application.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  18. TinyHumans AI

    Open-source desktop AI agent that builds a local, readable memory of your work, then orchestrates agent fleets and durable workflows on top of it.

    Also: Desktop App, Multi-agent

  19. Intelligence Software, Inc.

    A shared channel workspace where people and AI agents run recurring business work together — with goals, approvals and handoffs that survive a pause.

    Also: Desktop App, Multi-agent

  20. Meta

    Meta's terminal coding agent for long-horizon work in large repositories, running the Muse Spark 1.2 model with parallel subagents and a replayable event log.

    Also: Coding Agent, Multi-agent