Best Free Code Collaboration Tools

Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces

Red Hat

Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces uses Kubernetes and containers to provide any member of the development or IT team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment. The experience is as fast and familiar as an integrated development environment on your laptop. OpenShift Dev Spaces is included with your OpenShift subscription and is available in the Operator Hub. It provides development teams a faster and more reliable foundation on which to work, and it gives operations centralized control and peace of mind. Get coding today with our free Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, which includes OpenShift Dev Spaces to try out at no cost. Developers can focus more on coding, with their application and development environment containerized and running on OpenShift - all without needing to understand the details of Kubernetes. Administrators can easily manage and monitor workspaces as any other Kubernetes resource.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $30 per month

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CodePen

CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration. Find inspiration from 1.8 million+ front-end designers and developers. Browse and share work from world-class designers and developers in the front-end community. The CodePen Editor is highly customizable. There is autocomplete and Emmet for speed and accuracy. Plus you can set up smart defaults for starting new work. Completely customize the look of code demos on your own site. Change the look of your site? Just change the theme and all your Embedded Pens change too. Need to use an image in a Pen? No more awkwardly finding alternate hosting for it, you can drag-and-drop it right onto CodePen and we'll host it for you. And not just images! CSS, JSON files, SVGs, media files, whatever! Projects is the most powerful feature of CodePen.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $8 per month

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PlatformIO

Professional collaborative platform for embedded development. PlatformIO is a next-generation, collaborative platform for embedded development that enables customers to save resources and time by vastly reducing the expenses and labor associated with creating and maintaining product software. We believe the embedded systems industry desperately needs reinvention. Not only are the IDEs and tools built with technology from the 1990s, but they involve many complex requirements and platform-dependent configurations that turn away talented developers from becoming embedded engineers. The most loved IDE solution for Microsoft Visual Studio Code. A user-friendly and extensible integrated development environment with a set of professional development instruments, providing modern and powerful features to speed up yet simplify the creation and delivery of embedded products. PlatformIO is written in pure Python and doesn't depend on any additional libraries/tools from an operation system.

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CodeKeep

Organize your Code Snippets by assigning labels or grouping into folders. Generate Code Screenshots, Share and Discover reusable snippets. Codekeep lets you store and share bits of code with other users. Snippets can be organized into folders/labels for reuse. Tagging Labels and Organizing code snippets lets you quickly find and reuse the snippets you want. No more switching back and forth between IDES to find the code snippets or open your code repository to find what you need. Organize your code snippets!! Save time and Increase productivity. Reduce context switching. Switching between projects to find reusable snippets. Store snippets here for later use. Keep your notes here. Use CodeKeep while learning to create snippets containing the summary. Search for snippets. Quickly find reusable and modular snippets. Reuse snippets. Import snippets using CodeKeep extension, for later reference.

1 Rating

Starting Price: $4.99 per user per month

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Replit

Use our free, collaborative, in-browser IDE to code in 50+ languages — without spending a second on setup. Start coding with your favorite language on any platform, OS, and device. Invite your friends, teammates, and colleagues right into your code with Google-docs like editing. Import, run, and collaborate on millions of GitHub repos with 0 manual setup. From Python, to C++, to HTML and CSS, stay in one platform to learn and code in any language you want. The second you create a new repl, it's instantly live and sharable with the world. Learn how to code from 3 million+ passionate programmers, technologists, creatives, and learners of all kinds. Make your team more productive with interactive docs, real-time collaboration, and 0-hassle remote interviewing. Create apps programatically, spin up bots and customize the IDE with plugins to fit your needs.

2 Ratings

Starting Price: $7 per month

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Drovio

Boost remote/distributed workforces productivity by making their daily tools collaborative. Drovio's mission is to enhance remote/distributed workforces productivity by letting them remotely use the tools they already work with every day, together, as if they were all gathered in the same room. Designed for remote pairing/mobbing, co-designing, brainstorming or knowledge sharing, Drovio is a collaborative screen sharing app that grants super power to participants, they all get their own mouse cursors on screen and can interact with anything being shared, in real time. We deeply believe that working and learning together should know no boundaries. Whatever the distance, whatever the tools, drive your team to success with Drovio. With crisp voice chat and built-in low latency streaming of any screen or app, Drovio takes screen sharing to a whole new level.

Starting Price: $0 per user per month

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CodeTogether

Genuitec, LLC

Live share your IDEs and coding sessions for remote pair programming, mob programming, code reviews, distance learning and more! Cross IDE support for IntelliJ, Eclipse and VS Code means everyone stays in the environment they know and love - whether a different version, or even a different IDE. CodeTogether is the perfect blend of functionality and simplicity, designed by a team of remote developers that rely on collaborative development. Whether you are on an Agile team that uses pair programming as part of your regular software development flow or you just like to live share your code in the occasional troubleshooting session, CodeTogether is the best tool for pair programming, mob programming, code review, and more! If you’ve been using screen sharing or an online code editor for collaborative coding, you’ll be amazed at the difference!

Starting Price: $8 / month

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CodeSandbox

CodeSandbox is a cloud development platform that empowers development teams to code, collaborate, and ship projects of any size from any device in record time. Run your code in powerful microVMs and build anything without limits. We configure your environment for you and keep your code always ready, behind a URL. Boxy, the CodeSandbox AI coding assistant, is also now available to all Pro subscribers.

Starting Price: $12 per month

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Teletype for Atom

Atom

Teletype for Atom lets developers share their workspace with team members and collaborate on code in real time. Working on code together in real time is valuable for knowledge sharing and producing quality software. The Teletype package for Atom aspires to make it as easy for developers to code together as it is for them to code alone. Teletype introduces the concept of real-time "portals" for sharing workspaces. When a host opens a portal, their active tab becomes a shared workspace. There, invited collaborators can join in and make edits in real time. As the host moves between files, collaborators follow along with the active tab automatically. There's no centralized server to spy on your keystrokes, and Teletype uses WebRTC to encrypt all communication between collaborators. What happens in the portal stays in the portal.

Starting Price: Free

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GitDuck

Where software teams talk. GitDuck is a video chat tool that enables you to talk and collaborate in real-time. GitDuck has direct integrations to your code and the tools you use so you can have more productive video calls with your team. Share your code without sharing your screen. Collaborate with other developers and code together directly from your IDE. Low CPU and bandwidth consumption. Optimized for real-time collaboration. Simple room links. No more random long URLs. Just talk on your team's page. Easy to remember, share and join. Cross-IDE support. Collaborate using your favorite IDE while your team use what they prefer. Terminal sharing. Easily and securely share your terminal session with your team. P2P encrypted. All connections are P2P and end-to-end encrypted. Talk about your product and plan your sprint development. Write user stories together and review customer feedback.

Starting Price: $10 per user per month

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GitLive

Extend Git with real-time collaborative superpowers. Connect. See when your fellow contributors are online and which repos, branches and files they are working on. Automated. Connect your issue tracker to share what issue you are working on based on your current branch. Live. See others' local changes in the gutter of your editor and get notified the moment you make a conflicting change. Patch. View diffs of other contributors' local files and cherry‑pick individual lines, files or complete working copies. Codeshare. Make voice and video calls directly from your editor and codeshare to see each others cursors. Agnostic. Edit together simultaneously, interoperable between VS Code and all JetBrains IDEs.

Starting Price: $0

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CoScreen

CoScreen enables multiple team members to share and edit application windows simultaneously on a joint desktop. Collaborate and work together in real-time with 2-10 participants through collaborative screen sharing and high-quality video and audio chat. Share any application window with a single click. Your team members can edit them instantly as if they were their own windows and share their windows with you at the same time. Key features: - Crystal-clear audio and video chat - Multi-user screen sharing of any desktop or browser app with one click - Multi-user editing of shared windows using mouse and keyboard, 2-3x lower latency than Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams - Integrate CoScreen with your favorite apps like Slack, VS Code, IntelliJ, and other JetBrains IDEs - Enterprise-grade compliance and securely encrypted connections Use cases: standups, 1:1s, sprint demos, pair programming, coding interviews, employee onboarding, incident management, and many more...

Starting Price: Free

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Gitee

OSCHINA

Deep integration with code, various workflow, flexible hierarchy and visible progress management. Matured security strategy, detailed operation logs and automatic repository snapshots. Professional code management. Efficient project collaboration. R&D efficiency improvement. Comprehensive security protection.

Starting Price: ￥10.6/user/month

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JetBrains SpaceCode

JetBrains

Build and deliver, communicate, and manage projects and teams. Make software development and collaboration more productive and enjoyable. Get one platform with a complete software development, project management, and communication toolchain for your business. Receive the information relevant to you, and eliminate distractions and context switching by managing all of your notifications in integrated chats. Remove silos between different teams and specialists by bringing the whole company together in a shared environment. Build integrations on top of a single platform, and automate business processes with Space, using a rich HTTP API, Webhooks, and a Client SDK. Start projects quickly, and easily set up the whole infrastructure. A unified UI/UX ensures consistency and unification in all the areas. Connect your JetBrains IDE with Space to get all the power of the integrated collaborative solution inside your personal development environment.

Starting Price: $8 per user per month

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JetBrains Datalore

JetBrains

Datalore is a collaborative data science and analytics platform aimed at boosting the whole analytics workflow and making work with data enjoyable for both data scientists and data savvy business teams across the enterprise. Keeping a major focus on data teams workflow, Datalore offers technical-savvy business users the ability to work together with data teams, using no-code or low-code together with the power of Jupyter notebooks. Datalore enables analytical self-service for business users, enabling them to work with data using SQL and no-code cells, build reports and deep dive into data. It offloads the core data team with simple tasks. Datalore enables analysts and data scientists to share results with ML Engineers. You can run your code on powerful CPUs or GPUs and collaborate with your colleagues in real-time.

Starting Price: $19.90 per month

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Pop

Pop Technologies

Blazing-fast screen sharing, multiplayer control, crystal-clear voice and high-quality video. Perfect for pair programming. Pop’s multiplayer screen sharing — where everyone controls the screen together with their own mouse and keyboard — makes it effortless to collaborate on code. Whiteboarding has never been easier. Doodle together at anytime, even from a smartphone or tablet. Simple. Fast. And you’ll never need to worry about dried-out markers. Inviting people is as easy as sending a link, and everyone can join even before registering. If you have a laptop or a smartphone, you’re in.

Starting Price: Free

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Pullflow

Collaborate with each other and AI in the most natural way without leaving your favorite tools - minimizing distraction and context switching. Pullflow synchronizes user identities and code-review activity across GitHub, Slack, and VS Code, enabling you to converse naturally across platforms. Take action from wherever you are, and return to your flow. Pullflow integrates with GitHub Actions, external CI/CD, GitHub apps, and more, to bring you a single view of your pull request from draft and review to test and deploy. Let Pullflow take care of quick actions for you with just a chat mention or IDE keyboard shortcut. Request review, add/remove labels, give feedback, approve, and more, without a trip to GitHub.

Starting Price: $5 per user per month

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Toddle

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Install native packages with rich functionality and zero need to manage dependencies, no more broken plugins. Install pre-built packages built by a world-class developer community and accelerate your time to market, with no coding required. Design cool components, actions, or formulas, package them, and use them everywhere, no need to mess around with complicated formulas. Toddle is a visual web app builder that rivals custom code but is accessible to your entire team. Professional no-code web app editor, built-in live collaboration, version control, and hosting. Toddle is a visual programming platform for building modern web applications without writing code. You may want to host your Toddle creations yourself instead of relying on Toddle's infrastructure. We offer code export via web components. Live updates when you edit your component in the editor.

Starting Price: $29 per month

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Duckly

Duckly enables you to talk and share your code in real time with developers using any IDE. Duckly is an IDE plugin that facilitates real-time code collaboration among developers using different integrated development environments. It enables users to share code, terminal sessions, and local servers, while also providing audio and video communication directly within the IDE. All connections are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted, ensuring secure collaboration. By integrating these features, Duckly streamlines pair programming, code reviews, and team collaboration, enhancing productivity and reducing the need for multiple external tools. Talk with audio, and video and share your screen directly inside of your IDE. Share your code in real time with people using a different IDE than you. Share your local server with your team and let them see the changes in real time. All connections are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted.

Starting Price: $6 per month

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Saros

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plugin that facilitates real-time collaborative editing for distributed software development teams. Compatible with Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA, it enables multiple developers to work concurrently on shared projects, with each participant maintaining a local copy of the project synchronized in real time. Key features include support for multiple concurrent writers, a follow-mode to observe team members' navigation and editing activities, and awareness information displaying recent contributions and current selections of all participants. Saros supports sessions with up to five participants and allows users to host their own servers to keep all communication within their network. This design enhances collaborative coding experiences, making it suitable for scenarios such as pair programming, code reviews, and mentoring.

Starting Price: Free

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Visual Studio

Microsoft

Full-featured IDE to code, debug, test, and deploy to any platform. Code faster. Work smarter. Create the future with the best-in-class IDE. Develop with the entire toolset from initial design to final deployment. Improved IntelliSense performance for C++ files. Local development with many common emulators. Simplified test access in Solution Explorer. Git management and repo creation in the IDE. Kubernetes support now included in Microsoft Azure workload. It doesn’t matter what type of app you are building, what language you program in, or what OS you’re on; with Live Share you can instantly share your project with your peers from the comfort of your own tools. No need to clone a repo or set up the environment, to get sharing.

Starting Price: $45.00 per month

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Koding

Koding lets your organization create and share fully automated dev environments on any infrastructure for modern distributed applications, micro-services and containers. Koding provides an interface for developers and team managers to streamline dev workflows in the cloud without slowing down freedom and creativity. Spend less time configuring and more time building! Your entire team can share and collaborate on not only on your code, but also your dev environment. No more screen sharing. You can share dev environments in real-time, or leave it open for the whole team. For the first time, your team can locate the inefficiencies in their workflow, so that they can prioritize and fix them. A company with 1000s of developers waste at least a quarter of their year on configuring dev environments. Koding gives the time back to you.

Starting Price: $9 per user per month

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motepair

Atom

Remote pair programming tool for Atom. Lag free! We’ve done a basic integration with Share.js to allow concurrent editing via OT and bind some Atom events to a websocket, like opening/closing/saving files. Use the Atom package manager, which can be found in the Settings view or run apm install motepair from the command line. Open the project to start collaborating via the Motepair, connect command (you can trigger this command via Cmd+Shift+P). Please make sure that peers to open the same project directory. This is a very important step as we rely on the relative project path to identify the correct file. Deploy your own server easily on Heroku. The connection right now it is not encrypted if you have problems with that, please do not use it. That is part of the backlog. Be aware that this package is still in development, so it can be unstable, we are working hard to make the Remote Pair programming a better experience to all.

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CodeStream

New Relic

CodeStream is an open-source extension for VS Code, Visual Studio, and JetBrains. CodeStream supercharges development workflows by putting collaboration tools in your IDE. It supports pull requests from GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab, issue management from Jira, Trello, Asana and 9 others, and provides code discussion that ties it all together, integrated with Slack, MS Teams, email, and in-editor notifications. Understand, review, and write code faster with CodeStream. Get answers as easy as “select the code, type your question." Save institutional knowledge where it belongs: with your source code. Integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Email and offers in-editor notifications. Comment on code is as simple as: select the code, type your question. Code authors are automatically at-mentioned based on git blame info. Conversation threads are tied to code locations across branches and as new code merges in.

Starting Price: $8.33 per user per month

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Toast

Stay in the loop. Unblock teammates. Protect hack time. We support full on-premise installation. Shipped as a docker container for a seamless setup. Toast integrates GitHub into Slack. Toast will stay free for: teams of 3 and under, open source projects, academic pursuits, etc. It is Toast Ninja Inc.'s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, https://toast.ninja, and other sites we own and operate. In order to use Toast, you will be asked to install the Toast GitHub App to your GitHub organization. Installing the GitHub App grants us API access to your GitHub issues, members, metadata, status checks and pull requests. We collect the names, profile photos, names, and usernames of members of your GitHub organizations. We do not request or obtain access to your source code.

Starting Price: $4 per user per month

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Interview Sandbox

Share code with interviewers, coworkers, and classmates in realtime. Anywhere, anytime and with anyone. A simple real time code sharing app built with Firebase Realtime Database, Code Mirror as Editor, WebRTC video chat, and Witeboard. Write code, video chat, and draw in realtime with others. An application that was inspired by the fact that interviews are meant to interactive, not only in the face to face and speaking sense, but also in that they're meant to provide you a chance to show your thinking process. I sought out to build an application that lets interviewers outline their code, as well as leverage a whiteboard to show their solutions to the problem at hand. React, Firebase (realtime database), CodeMirror for the text editor, WebRTC & sockets for video chat, and Witeboard integration. There are a couple bugs and some features still being built. If you're using the app and need to reference your code/drawings later, just save the link!

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Boost Note

Boost Note is a powerful, lightspeed collaborative workspace for developer teams. Built to empower developers productivity with the most solid note taking experience for developers. Not just a GitHub flavored markdown. Put diagrams with Charts.js, Mermaid, and PlantUML in documents to maximize visibility. Choose from keymaps like Vim, over 150 themes, and more to create your own Markdown editor. Manage your documents programmatically. Grab an authentication token and access Boost Note's APIs via simple HTTP requests. Automate your documentation work with over 2,000 external tool integrations via Zapier. Collaborate with your colleagues and share information your way. Have all your teams in one shared workspace. Write documents as a team with Boost Note's realtime editing. Check revision history of a doc. You can easily roll back to one of the previous versions in one click. Keep your important data safe through granula access control based on workspace.

Starting Price: $3 per member per month

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Code With Me

JetBrains

Code With Me is a new collaborative coding and pair programming service. It makes it possible for you to invite others into your IDE project, and work on it together in real-time. Invite your teammate to investigate issues and review and work on code together online in real-time. Develop, debug, and fix code simultaneously with your whole team in a single remote collaborative IDE. Invite others to your project, so you can show and explain the code to them. A great fit for the classroom and online coding interviews. Just click the link that the host has shared with you, and you’re all set. No more repository downloading or pulling changes from someone else’s branch. Never again spend time setting up an environment, fixing compile-time exceptions, and resolving dependency headaches to get to someone’s current project state. As a guest, you don’t even need a JetBrains IDE installed.

Starting Price: $10 per user per month

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Raftt

Raftt saves you from the frustrations of configuring, maintaining, and sharing development environments on your local machine. Containers were designed to simplify production, not development. So even if you get past the pain-to-deal-with drift and decay in your local env — you still spend hours working out what’s going on. With Raftt’s platform, you can spawn an unlimited number of consistent remote envs to run your code. Without losing the feeling of local development with your existing workflows and IDEs. With Raftt, you can share a URL to your remote dev env with your teammates. So you can collaborate and debug together in real-time. Your product lead can always access the link — even after you’ve switched to work on a different feature. Raftt lets you interactively debug containers inside your IDE by changing the nature of how they work. And now, when your container’s main process dies, the container doesn’t capsize with it.

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XetHub

Confidently branch, review, and merge data as you experiment with complete history and recoverability. Track your code and data together for always-in-sync development and guaranteed reproducibility. Automate reports, audit access, and manage metadata in a centralized location for everyone. XetHub is ideal for teams who already use Git to track their code changes, and want to leverage the power of infinite history, pull requests, and difference-based tracking for larger assets such as datasets or media files. Managing complete projects with familiar Git semantics makes change tracking and continuous integration a breeze, especially for workflows that use code to generate or augment assets.

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Compare the Top Free Code Collaboration Tools as of April 2025

What are Free Code Collaboration Tools?

Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces

CodePen

PlatformIO

CodeKeep

Replit

Drovio

CodeTogether

CodeSandbox

Teletype for Atom

GitDuck

GitLive

CoScreen

Gitee

JetBrains SpaceCode

JetBrains Datalore

Pop

Pullflow

Toddle

Duckly

Saros

Visual Studio

Koding

motepair

CodeStream

Toast

Interview Sandbox

Boost Note

Code With Me

Raftt

XetHub

Best Free Code Collaboration Tools

Compare the Top Free Code Collaboration Tools as of April 2025

What are Free Code Collaboration Tools?

Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces

CodePen

PlatformIO

CodeKeep

Replit

Drovio

CodeTogether

CodeSandbox

Teletype for Atom

GitDuck

GitLive

CoScreen

Gitee

JetBrains SpaceCode

JetBrains Datalore

Pop

Pullflow

Toddle

Duckly

Saros

Visual Studio

Koding

motepair

CodeStream

Toast

Interview Sandbox

Boost Note

Code With Me

Raftt

XetHub

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