What is the best Vibe Coding tool so far? Bonus points if we've never heard of it!

I might be missing some but I've been pretty much in love with , , and have been trying to use more and I honestly haven't touched too much but have heard good things. has nudged me to use for whenever I build another Raycast Extension!

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Curious what everyone thinks is the top one so far!

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for the bonus points: aider with the right model config (sonnet 4.6 + repo-map enabled) is criminally underrated. it's CLI-first which scares some people off but you can drop it into any repo, point it at a few files, and it just works. no subscription, no SSO, no tab limit. for the more mainstream answer: cursor agent mode if you want the IDE feel

I've used Firebase Studio ( a Google product) recently. Pretty easy, not super robust. Good for small applications like this:

Also, Magic Patterns is a new one I've queued up to play with this weekend:

Best IDE so far for me is TRAE

I'm voting for It really helps me create my startup from design implement to deploying

I got locked into Cursor early, and it's great for my dev friends, but as a "less than technical" person, I started messing with Lovable this past week. It's hard to beat Cursor with Claude 4, it feels like a god damn superpower - but I blow up a lot of stuff and have learned to toggle between "ask" and "agent." "Restore point" is my friend.

I like blowing out ideas in Perplexity Labs, then copying the app to cursor to create apps in 30 minutes. I know, it's lame, but it works.

Wow Windsurf is getting demolished in the poll. How the mighty have fallen.

 Basically I guess for what happened last few weeks. I've followed for a while. It turns out that there has been an acquisition race to get Windsurf's technologies. First OpenAI was rumored to be in talks with them to buy it at $3B. Then Microsoft came in and stopped affecting a deal. Google intervened and hired their top makers, including their CEO. Finally Cognition acquired Windsurf and their remaining team.

It was wild.

Most likely Cognition is going to deprecate & merge Windsurf's technologies into Devin.

Give a try - likely the most complete solution that integrates directly into your existing IDE, like VS Code or JetBrains - plus you can build your own custom agents and have a nice test coverage, so you are not shipping just vibes but actual production-ready quality of code.

and are my top 3, didn't like the others. Replit does have a looping issue which I have highlighted to in in response to the recent incident. There are two new ones that I trying now Emergent and and they look quite decent.

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I am really looking forward for the next months and years to see what ideas and products get developed by these Vibe Coding tools. The more robust and easy they get, the more people get the power of building applications in their hand. This will inspire an innovation wave of many products with a very short lifetime. For NeBoo.me I was using , which completely impressed me. I got instant feedback how my ideas and thoughts look like in an application.