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24 alternatives to vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc

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Vi in your browser is a file editor that allows users to edit files directly from cloud storage services like Dropbox without downloading them locally. Designed for developers and technical users who work with remote… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. vi in your browser - edit files directly from Dropbox, etc launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey everyone, for the past like six months I've been working on a portfolio project. I got tired of doing easy projects, so I decided to tackle something bigger and more challenging. That's when I came up with the idea of a video editor. This piece of work is intended to showcase my skills and land me a job, but I like to think when working on projects that my idea is so cool that people will like to use it, and I treat every project like a startup idea. Also I havent seen many open source video editors especially on web so that was one of the points why I decided to make that and not…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I built VidStudio, a privacy focused video editor that runs in the browser. I tried to keep it as frictionless as possible, so there are no accounts and no uploads. Everything is persisted on your machine. Some of the features: multi-track timeline, frame accurate seek, MP4 export, audio, video, image, and text tracks, and a WebGL backed canvas where available. It also works on mobile. Under the hood, WebCodecs handles frame decode for timeline playback and scrubbing, which is what makes seeking responsive since decode runs on the hardware decoder when the browser supports it. FFmpeg…

    Apr 2026 · vidstudio.app · its alternatives →

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    Edit web apps visually in the Cursor Browser

    Dec 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →

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    BreezePDF lets you edit, sign, merge, compress, redact, OCR, fill forms, extract tables, and use 30+ more PDF tools — all in the browser, no sign-up. Files never leave your computer. I built it because when people search Google for common PDF tasks, many of the tools they find upload documents to a server. I wanted an option that keeps files local instead. I posted an earlier version on HN last spring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880962 At the time it only supported a small set of features. Over the last 10 months I rebuilt large parts of it and expanded it to…

    2025 · breezepdf.com · its alternatives →

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    A free online video editor that enables you to edit videos directly from your web browser.

    2025 · clipjs.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Simple text editor in your browser

    2023 · blank.page · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to edit your content focused videos

    2022 · streamlabs.com · its alternatives →

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    I wanted to see how far I could go building a notes app using only what modern browsers already provide – no frameworks, no storage APIs, no build step. What it does: Single HTML file, no deps, 111 loc Notes live in the URL hash (shareable links!) Auto-compressed with CompressionStream Plain-text editor (contenteditable) History support Page title from first # heading Respects light/dark mode No storage, cookies, or tracking The entire app is the page source. https://textarea.my/

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    vim.so▲444

    Learn vim fast with interactive exercises in the browser

    2021 · learnvim.com · its alternatives →

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    While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Blur It▲377

    Blur sensitive info on your screen in seconds

    2025 · blur-it.app · its alternatives →

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    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. - ueberdosis/tiptap

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Edit URL Query Parameters with Smart Input Types

    2025 · params-editor.isolpro.in · its alternatives →

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    The dead simple inline editor toolbar

    2016 · yabwe.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Edit screenshots from your browser

    2020 · datamask.tech · its alternatives →

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    Edit HTML files visually. Contribute to urin/vscode-web-visual-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, Video content is more popular than ever, but the toolkit for creating such content is a bit behind. You usually have to rely on a server for rendering whenever you want to create a video editing project in the browser. This means uploading content to a server, coding complex filters and effects, and more. My friend and I spent a year developing an SDK that handles all these complexities and offers an easy-to-use interface for developers. The SDK works entirely in the browser, manages memory efficiently so it can run even on a 7-year-old Android device, supports GLSL effects and…

    2024 · rendley.com · its alternatives →

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    Chrome extension to customize websites without coding chaos

    2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    As a Vim user, I often use Vim to write some text and then copy & paste it into another text field of GUI apps (e.g. browsers, chat apps, etc.), because almost all of these text fields provide only very basic editing functions. A while ago, I came up with an idea: what if we could use Vim as an IME? Ordinary IMEs are used to input some non-English characters, but the essential functions of IME are 1) receiving a keyboard sequence 2) process the key sequence and outputting a text These functions are the same as text editor's. So I thought implementing an IME that can be used with Vim…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I set about coding my own version of the classic MS-DOS EDIT.COM for GNU/Linux systems four years ago and it this is where the project is at... still rough around the edges but works well with Termux! :) Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bneUX_kVA

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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