Category: Code Assistant

Browser-based AI builder that generates and deploys web and mobile apps. It runs a full Node environment in the browser, so dependencies install without a server.

Vercel’s platform for designing, building and deploying full-stack web apps from a prompt. Output is React and Tailwind you can export and own.

Chat-to-app builder that produces working web apps with a database, authentication and deployment included. It is aimed at people who can describe an app but not write one.

Cognition’s autonomous AI software engineer, which picks up tickets, reviews code and writes documentation. Cognition acquired Windsurf in 2025 and folded its editor into the same product line.

Google’s agent-first development platform for orchestrating and monitoring several coding agents at once. It replaced the Gemini CLI, which Google retired in June 2026.

OpenAI’s coding agent, available inside ChatGPT, as IDE extensions and in the terminal. It runs tasks in a sandboxed environment and returns a diff for review.

AI-first code editor with autonomous cloud agents and its own Composer model. It is a fork of VS Code, so existing extensions and keybindings carry over.

Anthropic’s agentic coding tool, available in the terminal, IDEs, desktop, web and Slack. It reads a codebase, plans a change and carries it out rather than only suggesting completions.