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Refraction.dev
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding assistant for editors and IDEs that explains, refactors, documents, and generates code across 56 languages.
👁 2.8K/mo
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The New GitBook
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
👁 653K/mo♥ 2.9K
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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
👁 775K/mo
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.
👁 35M/mo♥ 69K
Pricing
Hobby: Free (10 code generations, 1 user)
Pro: $8/mo (unlimited generations, editor extensions)
Team: $14/user/mo (multiple members, shared history)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Bug detection and fix suggestions
- ✦Code and CSS framework conversion
- ✦Unit test and documentation generation
- ✦Regex, SQL query, and CI/CD pipeline generation
- ✦Code explanation and style checking
- ✦Editor extensions for VS Code, Sublime, JetBrains, Visual Studio
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Chat-to-app and website generation
- ✦Real-time prototype building
- ✦One-click deploy and hosting
- ✦Templates to start projects
- ✦Credit-based building with shared workspaces
- ✦You own your code and data
Use cases
- →Generating unit tests for existing functions
- →Refactoring legacy code to modern practices
- →Producing inline documentation automatically
- →Learning new programming languages or concepts via AI explanations
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Build web apps without coding
- →Prototype product ideas quickly
- →Create landing pages and sites
- →Ship internal tools
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