I built a directory of AI coding tools with a search box that takes ten languages and has no AI in it

A developer built VibeCodePicks, a free directory of 103 AI coding tools across 19 categories, with a deterministic multilingual search box that matches queries in ten languages against 49 hand-maintained intents without calling any translation API or model. The developer reports the search runs locally in the page, maps Chinese, Japanese and Korean phrases to English keywords via a phrase table, and includes typo tolerance, though it fails on context-free single words and substring collisions such as Spanish 'videojuego' returning video generators. A small Oct 18 check of Gemini (gemini-3-flash-preview) across 12 coding goals returned answers in 25 of 36 runs, naming 10 of the 31 tools tracked at the time.

I run VibeCodePicks, a directory of AI coding tools, and this is a first introduction to it, plus a few things I learned building its search box. This post was drafted with AI assistance, and I ran every query below on the live site on Oct 28. I see a lot of people hunting for tools right now, and just reading through the info and screening it takes a long time, so I put it in one place to save people some time and tokens. You search by what you want to do, like make a game, scan your code for security issues or build a site without coding, and it shows the tools that fit, with who each one is for, who it's not for, and what the free tier really gives you. It has 103 tools in 19 categories, 13 goal pages, and a free MCP server with 13 tools if you'd rather let your own assistant look things up. Rankings come from what people actually said about the tools on X and HN between Aug 18 and Oct 18, and nothing on it is paid. The site itself is English only, but the search box isn't. Type 做游戏, ゲーム開発 or juego and you get the same five game tools: Scenario, Meshy, Rosebud AI, Claude Code and ForgeSprite. 安全扫描 security scan gives ShipCheck, Ship Safe and VibeSafe. 不会写代码做网站 build a website without knowing how to code gives Lovable, Bolt.new, v0, Base44, Replit and a few more, and app sin codigo returns almost the same list. 免费开源编程助手 free open-source coding assistant puts Aider, OpenCode and Codex CLI first, because free and open source are hard filters that work in every supported language. There's no translation call and no model behind it. The search runs locally in the page and doesn't send your query to any paid API. It matches what you typed against 49 intents, and each intent carries keywords in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Hindi and Russian. Chinese, Japanese and Korean phrases are first mapped to English keywords through a small phrase table, and there's an alias list and some typo tolerance for tool names on top. That makes it deterministic and free to run, and when a result looks wrong you can trace it to the keyword that caused it. The catch is that it's a maintained vocabulary, not real language understanding: every new kind of need, in every language, has to be added by hand. And it does break, so I'd rather say where. Single words with no context are weak. testing and no code don't hit an intent, so the box falls back to a few closest matches, and for testing one of those is a business card tool. ノーコード on its own returns nothing at all, even though app sin codigo works. Substring matching bites in Spanish: quiero crear un videojuego returns video generators like Kling AI and Runway, because video lives inside videojuego. The typo tolerance is a bit too friendly, so hola returns a tool called HOL Guard. Searches that come up empty are logged as words only, no personal data, so the missing vocabulary can be added in a weekly pass. I also ran a small check on whether AI assistants already know these tools. On Oct 18 we asked Gemini gemini-3-flash-preview, free tier for the best tools across 12 coding goals. Of 36 runs, 25 returned an answer, and across those it named 10 of the 31 tools we tracked then. One small model on one day, so it's a snapshot, not a ranking. The data is CC BY 4.0, and the MCP server exists so your assistant can look the directory up instead of leaning on memory. I'd also like to gather people's experience with these tools in one place so later users can learn from earlier ones, though that part isn't built yet. For now I'll keep adding tools and filling in the searches that come back empty. It's free to use, I run it, and the search box is on the homepage: https://vibecodepicks.com/?utm source=devto&utm medium=social&utm campaign=keyword-search-10-langs https://vibecodepicks.com/?utm source=devto&utm medium=social&utm campaign=keyword-search-10-langs