Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to IMPERIAL
Share code with anyone in a matter of seconds
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. IMPERIAL launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Small team down here in South New Zealand just launched CodeLink. In short its an IDE (VSCode/JetBrains) plugin that lets you share blocks of code that link directly to the code inside your IDE or repo. We use it all the time and think its pretty nifty tech that lets you understand someone’s code in context very quickly. we’re hoping to keep refining it to make it better and more useful.
2022 · codelink.dev · its alternatives →
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JetBrains Air▲252Run Codex, Claude Agents, Gemini CLI, and Junie side by side
Mar 2026 · air.dev · its alternatives →
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JetBrains AI▲256Supercharge your tools. Embrace new freedom.
2023 · jetbrains.com · its alternatives →
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Code sharing made simple and easy
2021 · goonlinetools.com · its alternatives →
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A quick and easy file sharing tool built on privacy
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Grass▲291Gives your coding agent a dedicated VM that's ready 24/7
Apr 2026 · codeongrass.com · its alternatives →
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Build and share projects right in your browser
2021 · codecademy.com · its alternatives →
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TextBin▲104A privacy focused open source alternative to paste bin
2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Remote Development with JetBrains and Gitpod
2022 · ona.com · its alternatives →
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Web environment for custom code internal tools
2023 · fluidspace.app · its alternatives →
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SharePad is a free online code interview tool, it has a real-time collaborative code editor, you can run code with built-in compilers.
2021 · sharepad.io · its alternatives →
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Spaces▲88Build collaborative environments in just a few lines of code
2023 · ably.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everybody, I’m Roman from Termius (YC W19, HN launch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20118727). I want to share news about a new exciting feature that we wanted to build for a long time. It’s Terminal Sharing. Terminal Sharing enables engineers to get instant help from their colleagues by providing a link to their terminal output updated in real-time. There is also a mode where the viewer can enter commands from their end. When I was getting into programming, some of my biggest problems were: compilation errors or not being able to set up something on a Linux server.…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Proxy remote LLM API as Ollama and LM Studio, for using them in JetBrains AI Assistant - Stream29/ProxyAsLocalModel
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly share code with developers in no time
2023 · goonlinetools.com · its alternatives →
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Collaborative coding environment for technical interviews
2020 · codingview.io · its alternatives →
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