selfhost.directory

The index of self-hostable projects — ranked, categorized and served with live updates.
Own your data and stop giving it to big tech.

Self-hosted alternatives to Vim/Neovim

--sort

Also in Terminal

Not listed as Vim/Neovim alternatives, but they cover the same ground and are worth a look.

All 34 Terminal projects

About these Vim/Neovim alternatives

1 open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Vim/Neovim are listed here, ranked by popularity, maintenance and documentation.

Highest rated
TermIDE (180 GitHub stars, MIT license, written in Rust)
Easiest to set up
TermIDE
Recently updated
TermIDE 0.46.0 on 2026-10-28

Vim/Neovim alternatives compared

ProjectLicenseLanguageStarsDockerSetupLatest releaseScore
TermIDEMITRust180—Easy0.46.049