AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cursor AI intro demos (Open Source)
While Cursor is picking off and a lot of developers trying it out. I believe that a vast amount of beginners still struggle with a lot of basics and how to use the app. So I have compiled a few demos from the docs, and X tweets, and recorded a few myself so beginners can see how the cursor works. The website is open source, and my first time contributing, so if there are any mistakes or improvements to be made please let me know! thanks :)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Cursor 2.0▲957Our first coding model and new interface for agents
Oct 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Andrew, one of the creators of Void. I made this open source version of Cursor where you can get all of Cursor's core features but in a fully-customizable IDE (ctrl+k, ctrl+L). We love Cursor but there are so many other features we want to build, like allowing AI to edit multiple files at once, or giving AI better understanding of your file system. Void is the open-source, fully customizable tool we've been wanting. The hard part: we're building Void as a fork of vscode. The repo has great documentation for extensions, but going deeper gets pretty involved. All of the code is…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cursor for iOS▲611Build with coding agents from anywhere
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · javier.xyz · its alternatives →
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While Cursor has already revolutionized coding, you can still configure it to perform even better based on your language and framework. That's why we created Cursor Directory, a collection of the best cursor rules for your framework and language from the community. It's fully open source and you can contribute to it by submitting your own rules. Just copy and add a .cursorrules file to your project root! Let me know what you think!
2024 · cursor.directory · its alternatives →
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Master Cursor with Free, Practical Tutorials.
2024 · lookai.top · its alternatives →
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Find the best rules and videos for Cursor.
2024 · cursor.directory · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm building Cursor Search, a Chrome extension that brings AI-powered search capabilities right to your cursor. I'd love to get your thoughts and feedback. What it does: Activates with a keyboard shortcut Displays a search bar that follows your cursor Provides instant AI-generated answers without leaving your current page Tech stack: Frontend: JavaScript, React (next js) Backend: Node.js AI: OpenAI's GPT-3.5 (planning to implement local models in the future) Hosting: Cloudflare DB: Supabase Why I built it: As a developer, I often found myself constantly switching tabs to look up…
2024 · cursorsearch.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Namanyay and I've been using Cursor since 2 years, but it seems to make mistakes as the project size grows. This caused me to have to repeat myself a lot and it used to break my flow. I realized it's because Cursor (and other AI tools) are not able to keep an overview of the project. Plus, Cursor does not have a "memory" layer to remember important things that the user has already mentioned. I solved this by building an open-source MCP which maintains project and memory information within the user's file system. It's simple and installation takes 30 seconds. Github:…
2025 · its alternatives →
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CursorBird▲11Hi HN! Creator of CursorBird here. I've recently built and published a fun side project I think you might enjoy: It's a simple Cursor extension that lets you play a flappy bird clone while the agents are running. It uses Cursor's hook system to detect agent activity: the game automatically opens when an agent starts working and closes when all agents finish. Press Tab to flap. 100% open source. Repo: https://github.com/i-am-noamg/cursorbird Install: https://open-vsx.org/extension/cursorbird/cursor-bird or from Cursor's extensions search It started…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built Gemini Cursor, an open-source multimodal AI cursor that guides users through tasks on their desktop by pointing and speaking. It leverages Gemini 2.0 Flash and Google's live multimodal API to analyze what's on screen and provide real-time assistance. In this demo, my friend tries to add a payment method to Amazon, and the AI cursor walks them through the entire process with visual cues and spoken instructions. I've also used it to interpret diagrams from research papers—curious to see what other use cases people find this useful for! Demo:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I threw together a small prototype I am calling “Notepad.ai”. A new take on UIs for interacting with LLMs. While I enjoy using LLM’s in the chat format I wanted to see what it would be like to do it in a more long form style. It let’s you write in a pretty free form, much like Window’s Notepad, but you can choose to hit ctrl+[ to analyze the text with a preset prompt of your choosing. It has a few other small features. It’s WIP and very experimental. I would appreciate any feedback or thoughts. Video: https://youtu.be/ntdlgFmSxQY Live Demo:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Saai, one of the creators of Sylix. I made this open-minded version of Cursor where you can get all of the core features of Cursor but in a fully customizable IDE (Ctrl+K, @docs, parallel agents). We love Cursor so much, but there are so many other features we're building, including all things like multi-edit, parallel swaps, agent indexing (but not the traditional one), parallel LSP, or maybe... we might give agents a better understanding of the codebase via multi-semantic memory instead, alongside in-search grep for your system files or workspace. Sylix will be open source once…
Jul 2026 · sylixide.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, Elliott and Matty here. We’ve built Former, an open source AI-first SQL Editor. The repo is available at https://github.com/former-labs/former and our home page is https://formerlabs.com/. We built Former to provide an AI-first development environment for working with data. We’ve seen incredible applications of AI to the software engineering space with Cursor, Windsurf, and others, but we believe that focussing on a product just for data teams is needed for their unique workflows. Former is starting as a full SQL editor experience with an…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Prasad here, I've been using cursor from very early days. Adding rules to my project really improved the quality and the Autonomity of cursor agent, but it took a good bit of time for me to do that manually. So I built a tool to generate rules based on the technology and various preferences. Please check it out. https://cursor-rules-generator.xyz/
2025 · cursor-rules-generator.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Since late 2021, I’ve been building apps using only AI models. Over time, I realized the real problem wasn’t how good the coding models were, but how you write and structure your prompts. When I vibe code, I make a looooot of typos or write unclear prompts. I often find myself reverting to old versions because the AI misunderstood my prompt and made incorrect changes. But in reality, it’s usually not the AI’s fault. It’s my prompt. That’s why I built PromptDC. It enhances your prompts with one click, without leaving your web-based platform or local editor. Just write your prompt in…
2025 · promptdc.com · its alternatives →
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AI cursor that navigates your software for confused users
Jan 2026 · invocursor.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're Andrew and Mat and we're building Void, an open source Cursor alternative. Our editor is an open-source VSCode fork. Our primary goal is to create a fully-featured AI editor where you can keep your data completely private. Going open source is really important because it let us take the logic that would normally live on a server, like prompt building or message handling, and run it on your local machine instead. This way you can do things like self-host Llama 3.1 or Gemma and never have your data leave your computer. You can also just send your prompts directly to foundational…
2024 · voideditor.com · its alternatives →
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daily cursor provides tips & community-driven insights
2025 · dailycursor.borninsea.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a PM who got tired of the same cycle: do a bunch of customer interviews, dump them in a doc, tell myself I'll synthesize them later, never do. So I built Mimir as a fun side project for myself and my day job. You paste in your raw feedback — interviews, support tickets, survey responses, whatever... and it pulls out themes, ranks them, and tells you what to build next. Every recommendation links back to the actual quotes so you're not just trusting a black box. There's a real pipeline underneath that does extraction, clustering, synthesis across sources. You can chat with your data, push…
Feb 2026 · mimir.build · its alternatives →
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