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ZeroBrane Studio

ZeroBrane Studio is a code editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: debugging, code completion and syntax highlighting.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

ZeroBrane Studio is a code editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: debugging, code completion and syntax highlighting.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE/editor/debugger for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight cross-platform Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, remote debugger, code analyzer, live coding, and debugging support for various Lua engines” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight cross-platform Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, remote debugger, code analyzer, live coding, and debugging support for various Lua engines” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

ZeroBrane Studio is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support for Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3, LuaJIT, and other Lua engines. It is simple and instantly usable for beginners yet feature-rich and extensible for experienced developers. It has a small footprint and is completely customizable with Lua while still including a full IDE feature set including a remote debugger.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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