The Best 23 IDLE Alternatives

  • IPython icon

    IPython

    IPython is an interactive shell for the Python programming language that offers enhanced introspection, additional shell syntax, syntax highlighting, tab completion and rich history. It is a component of the SciPy package.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Light Table icon

    Light Table

    Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell

  • NINJA-IDE icon

    NINJA-IDE

    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • PyScripter icon

    PyScripter

    PyScripter is a free and open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial Windows-based IDEs available for other languages.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Pyzo icon

    Pyzo

    Pyzo is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Eric icon

    Eric

    Eric is a full-featured IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Python and Ruby, This is one of the best options for programming in Python. You can extend its...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ecere SDK icon

    Ecere SDK

    A cross-platform Software Development Kit including a GUI toolkit, a 2D/3D graphics engine, a networking library, an audio output library, an IDE, a compiler for the eC...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PyDev icon

    PyDev

    PyDev is a third-party plug-in for Eclipse. It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python supporting code refactoring, graphical...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Eclipse

  • Wing IDE icon

    Wing IDE

    Wing IDE is a commercial IDE for Python. It has syntax highlighting, code completion via analysis of Python files, Django integration, networked debugging, and more....

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Dreampie icon

    Dreampie

    DreamPie was designed from the ground up to bring you a great interactive Python experience: - DreamPie features a new concept for an interactive shell: the window is...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Keypress Editor icon

    Keypress Editor

    This is the editor you were looking for. Keypress is an offline, desktop based code editor. Use Keypress to edit your local files, on any platform. Keypress features...

    Free Chrome OS Chrome

  • gEcrit icon

    gEcrit

    gEcrit is a Python IDE. Its focus is on simplicity and ease of use. It is fast and lightweight. It features Python indentation, line numbers, code folding, syntax...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Thonny icon

    Thonny

    Python IDE for beginners. Its supports different ways of stepping through the code, step-by-step expression evaluation, detailed visualization of the call stack and a...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Boa Constructor icon

    Boa Constructor

    Boa Constructor is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder. It offers visual frame creation and manipulation, an object inspector, many views on the source...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • WideStudio icon

    WideStudio

    WideStudio is an open source, Integrated Development Environment for desktop applications purely made in Japan. This enables you to develop GUI applications that can run...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Simple Code Editor icon

    Simple Code Editor

    Simple Code Editor is a simple, elegant, and powerful code editor, with many features.

    Free Windows

  • stanis python editor icon

    stanis python editor

    SPE IDE - Stani's Python Editor is a Free python IDE for Windows,Mac & Linux with UML,PyChecker,Debugger,GUI design,Blender & more

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux