Desktop App
An AI-first code editor that understands your whole codebase.
Rating
4.6 / 5
Pricing
Freemium
Difficulty
Intermediate
Works on
macOS, Windows, Linux
Built with love by Shushant Lakhyani. Building bestproductivityresources.com
Cursor is a fork of VS Code with AI built into the editing loop rather than added as a sidebar. It can answer questions about the repository, apply multi-file edits and explain unfamiliar code, which shortens the slowest part of most technical work.
Developers and technical builders who ship code daily.
Non-technical users with no code to write.
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