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Code editors and IDEs
4.4%of all Mac app installs in the last 30 days: 93,932 installs. Its share is down from 4.7% in the two months before.
Text editors, code editors and integrated development environments.
Over time
Installs in this category at each recorded 30-day window.
Share of installs
Average share in each period.
- Oct 28 – Jul 295.3%
- Jul 30 – Sep 274.7%
- Sep 28 – Oct 28, 20264.4% −6%
All code editors and ides
119 apps, ranked by installs in the last 30 days.
Code editors and IDEs
| # | App | Installs, 30 days | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Microsoft Visual Studio CodeOpen-source code editor | 36,940 | −9% |
| 2 |  Android StudioTools for building Android applications | 14,399 | +4% |
| 3 |  ZedMultiplayer code editor | 8,996 | −4% |
| 4 |  Sublime TextText editor for code, markup and prose | 5,245 | −13% |
| 5 | VSCodiumBinary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing | 3,347 | −8% |
| 6 |  IntelliJ IDEA UltimateJava IDE by JetBrains | 2,879 | −3% |
| 7 |  JetBrains ToolboxJetBrains tools manager | 2,130 | −6% |
| 8 |  EmacsGNU Emacs text editor | 1,775 | −8% |
| 9 |  CotEditorPlain-text editor for web pages, program source codes and more | 1,565 | +0% |
| 10 |  PyCharmIDE for professional Python development | 1,360 | −4% |
| 11 |  RStudioData science software focusing on R and Python | 1,303 | +4% |
| 12 |  Arduino IDEElectronics prototyping platform | 1,050 | +7% |
| 13 |  IntelliJ IDEA Community EditionIDE for Java development - community edition | 938 | −37% |
| 14 |  DataGripDatabases and SQL IDE | 745 | −13% |
| 15 |  Nextpad++Unofficial native port of Notepad++ | 639 | – |
| 16 |  BBEditText, code, and markup editor | 609 | −34% |
| 17 |  LensKubernetes IDE | 603 | −15% |
| 18 |  JetBrains Rider.NET IDE | 477 | +0% |
| 19 |  Microsoft Visual Studio Code InsidersOpen-source code editor | 457 | −15% |
| 20 |  WebStormJavaScript IDE | 375 | −15% |
| 21 | MacVimText editor | 366 | −1% |
| 22 | NeovideNeovim Client | 350 | −21% |
| 23 | Hex FiendHex editor focussing on speed | 346 | +2% |
| 24 |  GramCode editor focused on stability, without AI, subscriptions, or telemetry | 338 | −5% |
| 25 |  Jetbrains PyCharm Community EditionIDE for Python programming - Community Edition | 308 | −44% |
| 26 |  TextMateGeneral-purpose text editor | 301 | −10% |
| 27 |  GolandGo (golang) IDE | 300 | −18% |
| 28 |  ThonnyPython IDE for beginners | 293 | +2% |
| 29 |  Eclipse IDE for Java DevelopersEclipse IDE for Java developers | 277 | −11% |
| 30 |  Qt CreatorIDE for application development | 252 | −14% |
| 31 |  CLionC and C++ IDE | 250 | −10% |
| 32 |  SuperColliderServer, language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition | 240 | +50% |
| 33 |  KateMulti-document editor by KDE | 218 | −4% |
| 34 |  NetBeans IDEDevelopment environment, tooling platform and application framework | 209 | −1% |
| 35 |  PositronData science IDE | 209 | +5% |
| 36 |  JetBrains PhpStormPHP IDE by JetBrains | 190 | −13% |
| 37 | TeXShopLaTeX and TeX editor and previewer | 187 | +28% |
| 38 | JupyterLab AppDesktop application for JupyterLab | 165 | +4% |
| 39 |  PulsarText editor | 161 | +15% |
| 40 |  Notepad.exeLightweight code editor | 154 | −19% |
| 41 | Trae CNAdaptive AI IDE | 152 | −18% |
| 42 |  Zed PreviewMultiplayer code editor | 149 | −24% |
| 43 | SwiftFormat for XcodeXcode Extension for reformatting Swift code | 142 | −8% |
| 44 |  IntelliJ HTTP Client CLI CLIHTTP client from JetBrains IDEs available as a standalone CLI tool | 141 | +12% |
| 45 |  GeanySmall and lightweight IDE | 140 | −9% |
| 46 |  RustRoverRust IDE | 133 | +1% |
| 47 |  TraeAdaptive AI IDE | 128 | −23% |
| 48 |  HBuilderXHTML editor | 126 | −23% |
| 49 |  Neo4j DesktopDeveloper IDE or Management Environment for Neo4j instances | 123 | +5% |
| 50 |  SpyderScientific Python IDE | 110 | +30% |
| 51 |  Eclipse IDE for Eclipse CommittersEclipse integrated development environment | 108 | −5% |
| 52 |  Eclipse IDE for Java EE DevelopersEclipse IDE for Java EE developers | 104 | +58% |
| 53 |  Studio 3TIDE, client, and GUI for MongoDB | 103 | −14% |
| 54 |  LapceOpen source code editor written in Rust | 94 | −5% |
| 55 | VimRGUI for the Neovim text editor | 94 | −10% |
| 56 | DevCleanerReclaim storage used for Xcode caches | 91 | +12% |
| 57 | TLA+ ToolboxIDE for TLA+ | 66 | +21% |
| 58 |  CodeEditCode editor | 60 | −20% |
| 59 |  jetbrains-gatewayRemote development gateway by Jetbrains | 59 | −26% |
| 60 |  NoSQLBooster for MongoDBGUI tool and IDE for MongoDB | 57 | +9% |
| 61 |  Studio 3T Community EditionIDE, client, and GUI for MongoDB | 56 | −16% |
| 62 |  Panic NovaNative code editor | 54 | −25% |
| 63 | 010 EditorText editor | 49 | −9% |
| 64 | RubyMineRuby on Rails IDE | 46 | −40% |
| 65 | Neon Vision EditorNative code and text editor | 43 | −32% |
| 66 | ChimeText and code editor | 41 | −15% |
| 67 | AgentIDEIDE for agent-based development | 34 | +585% |
| 68 | kindaVimUse Vim in input fields and non input fields | 34 | +30% |
| 69 | VSCodium (insiders)Code editor | 31 | −16% |
| 70 | miText editor | 27 | +12% |
| 71 | Anypoint StudioEclipse-based IDE for designing and testing Mule applications | 25 | +47% |
| 72 | MiniZincIDEOpen-source constraint modelling language and IDE | 25 | +292% |
| 73 | CLIPS IDETool for building expert systems | 22 | +182% |
| 74 | Phoenix CodeCode editor | 22 | −28% |
| 75 | AquamacsText editor based on GNU Emacs | 21 | −13% |
| 76 | AthasLightweight code editor | 19 | −14% |
| 77 | Eclipse IDE for C/C++ DevelopersEclipse IDE for C and C++ developers | 18 | −12% |
| 78 | Script DebuggerIntegrated development environment focused entirely on AppleScript | 18 | +49% |
| 79 | Emacs (nightly)GNU Emacs text editor | 17 | −14% |
| 80 | OpenPLC EditorIDE for creating programs for the OpenPLC Runtime | 15 | +165% |
| 81 | SideXCode editor based on VS Code and Tauri | 14 | +119% |
| 82 | Code Composer Studio (CCS)Integrated development environment | 11 | −9% |
| 83 | MaciASLACPI Machine Language (AML) compiler and IDE | 11 | −70% |
| 84 | Eclipse for RCP and RAP DevelopersEclipse IDE for RCP and RAP developers | 10 | +102% |
| 85 | Freelens (nightly)Kubernetes IDE | 9 | +27% |
| 86 | PyzoPython IDE focused on interactivity and introspection | 9 | −9% |
| 87 | Eclipse IDE for PHP DevelopersEclipse IDE for PHP developers | 7 | +98% |
| 88 | GAMA Platform with embedded JDKIDE for building spatially explicit agent-based simulations | 7 | −34% |
| 89 | JetBrains MPSCreate your own domain-specific language | 7 | +10% |
| 90 | SwiftPlantUMLAppGenerate and view a class diagram for Swift code in Xcode | 7 | +23% |
| 91 | TheiaIDEIDE framework | 7 | −62% |
| 92 | MonokleIDE dedicated to high-quality Kubernetes YAML configurations | 6 | −58% |
| 93 | MPLab X IDEIDE for Microchip's microcontrollers and digital signal controllers | 6 | +21% |
| 94 | SEGGER Embedded Studio for Arm and RISC-VIDE for embedded systems | 6 | +21% |
| 95 | SmultronGeneral-purpose text editor | 6 | −6% |
| 96 | Sublime Text (dev)Text editor for code, markup and prose | 6 | −78% |
| 97 | AideOpen-source AI-native IDE | 5 | −56% |
| 98 | DataSpellIDE for Professional Data Scientists | 5 | −12% |
| 99 | Eclipse IDE for Java and DSL DevelopersEclipse IDE for Java and DSL developers | 5 | −41% |
| 100 | Eclipse SDKSDK for the Eclipse IDE | 5 | −29% |
| 101 | CodeBoltAI Powered Code Editor | 4 | +41% |
| 102 | LumideAgent-native code editor | 4 | −60% |
| 103 | NotoSimple plain text editor | 4 | −57% |
| 104 | ZeroBrane StudioLua IDE | 4 | −37% |
| 105 | Arduino IDE (nightly)Electronics prototyping platform | 3 | −53% |
| 106 | Jetbrains PyCharm Educational EditionProfessional IDE for scientific and web Python development | 3 | +323% |
| 107 | Sim GenieEasier access to Xcode Simulator functionality | 3 | +41% |
| 108 | jgraspIDE with visualisations for improving software comprehensibility | 2 | −76% |
| 109 | Mini Program StudioIDE for the development of Alipay applets | 2 | −60% |
| 110 | Qt Creator DevIDE for application development | 2 | +182% |
| 111 | Aquafold Aqua Data StudioDatabase IDE with data management and visual analytics | 1 | −65% |
| 112 | Banana Cake PopIDE to interact with GraphQL servers | 1 | −53% |
| 113 | BuildSettingExtractorXcode build settings extractor | 1 | +41% |
| 114 | Chime (alpha)Text and code editor | 1 | +41% |
| 115 | DecoIDE for building React Native applications | 1 | −53% |
| 116 | Emacs (pretest)GNU Emacs text editor | 1 | −92% |
| 117 | mi (beta)Text editor | 1 | – |
| 118 | Scala IDE | 1 | −72% |
| 119 | ScrollaScroll with the keyboard using Vim motions | 1 | −53% |
Install counts come from Homebrew, a free tool many Mac users install apps with, so they describe those people, not every Mac owner. How we count