Developer Tools —— curated & data-backed

Editors, terminals, AI coding agents, API tools and the DevOps glue — the full kit for people who ship software.

38 tools·37 rated·updated continuously

AI Coding Agents 8AI pair programmers and coding agents built into the editor.Editors & IDE 8Editors and IDEs, from modal minimalists to full-featured IDEs.DevOps & Infra 7Containers, pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.Terminals & CLI 7Terminal emulators, multiplexers and the git CLI itself.API & Debugging Tools 5API clients, debuggers and traffic inspectors.Git Clients 3Visual git clients that make branches and rebases clickable.

All Developer Tools sorted by editor rating · 38 tools

Git

The distributed version control system nearly all software development runs on

Warp

A modern terminal with AI command suggestions built for developers

Docker

Platform for building, shipping and running applications in containers

tmux terminal

The terminal multiplexer that keeps sessions alive: windows, panes and detach-attach that outlive SSH drops.

Vim editor

The ubiquitous modal editor: decades of keystroke efficiency, already installed on nearly every machine you SSH into.

Cursor

AI-first code editor built on VS Code with an assistant wired into every editing action

GNU Emacs

The extensible, self-documenting GNU editor: a Lisp-programmable workspace for text, Org-mode planning and Magit git.

VS Code

Free code editor from Microsoft with a large extension marketplace

Free

Postman

The de-facto desktop workspace for building, testing and documenting REST and GraphQL APIs

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer embedded in editors, with chat, agent mode and pull-request summaries

About the Developer Tools shelf

BetterPicker's Developer Tools category gathers the tools that developers use daily to write, ship and operate software. Tools enter the shelf through editorial review; entries without a rating yet are still vetted for the basics — a working product and honest positioning.

Ratings here are data-based: each editor rating is a pure function of public review-video signals (views, likes, discussion), so a tool can't buy its way up this page. The shelf updates as new tools pass review.

Sub-category cards link to their own shelves (/categories/<shelf>); the Type (web / desktop / self-host) filter lives in the URL as ?form= only.