Compare the Top IDE Software as of May 2025

What is IDE Software?

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are software programs which provide an integrated environment for a programmer to develop their code. The IDEs usually provide tools such as a text editor, compiler, and debugger. They are designed to increase productivity by allowing programmers to work on multiple components of their project in the same environment. IDEs also typically offer features such as syntax highlighting, suggestions for identifiers, and auto-completion that aid in coding accuracy. Compare and read user reviews of the best IDE software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    DbVisualizer

    DbVisualizer

    DbVisualizer

    DbVisualizer is one of the world’s most popular database editors. Developers, analysts, and DBAs use it to elevate their SQL experience with modern tools to visualize and manage their databases, schemas, objects, and table data, and to auto-generate, write and optimize queries. And so much more. It connects to all popular databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, Snowflake, SQLite, BigQuery, and 20+ more) and runs on all popular OSes (Windows, macOS, and Linux). With almost 6 million downloads and Pro-users in 145 countries around the world, it won’t let you down. Free and Pro versions are available.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Linx

    Linx

    Twenty57

    A powerful iPaaS platform for integration and business process automation. Linx is a powerful platform for building custom integrations at scale. The platform provides enterprise-grade capability and unparalleled flexibility to cater to a wide range of integration use cases for today’s growing businesses, including application integration, data synchronization, data migration, automations, and rapid API development and management. Linx is a low-code, desktop-based iPaaS that enables organizations to connect their cloud and on-premise applications, data sources.
    Starting Price: $599 per month
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    IntelliJ IDEA

    IntelliJ IDEA

    JetBrains

    IntelliJ IDEA is a JetBrains IDE for professional development in Java and Kotlin. It unlocks productive development and helps you write high-quality code with ease. Built to get the job done, it provides all of the essential tools and cutting-edge technology support you need. With a smooth, comfortable workflow and a strong focus on privacy and security, it lets you code with confidence and pleasure.
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    Starting Price: $16.90 per user per month
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    PyCharm

    PyCharm

    JetBrains

    All the Python tools in one place. Save time while PyCharm takes care of the routine. Focus on the bigger things and embrace the keyboard-centric approach to get the most of PyCharm's many productivity features. PyCharm knows everything about your code. Rely on it for intelligent code completion, on-the-fly error checking and quick-fixes, easy project navigation, and much more. Write neat and maintainable code while the IDE helps you keep control of the quality with PEP8 checks, testing assistance, smart refactorings, and a host of inspections. PyCharm is designed by programmers, for programmers, to provide all the tools you need for productive Python development. PyCharm provides smart code completion, code inspections, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick-fixes, along with automated code refactorings and rich navigation capabilities.
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    Starting Price: $199 per user per year
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    Omnis Studio

    Omnis Studio

    Omnis Software Ltd

    Omnis Studio is a cross platform application development environment. Omnis Studio allows application developers and programmers to write application code and business logic once, and deploy their applications on virtually any platform or device, including desktop PCs on Windows and macOS, as well as tablets and phones on iOS, Android and Windows. Support for a large range of client devices is enabled using the Omnis JavaScript Client, a unique JavaScript based technology for rendering the application UI and web forms in a standard web browser on desktops and mobile devices. The integration of data and services is available in Omnis Studio via REST based Web Services, and functionality can be extended within Omnis Studio by utilizing its powerful and flexible external components API. Omnis is headquartered in the UK and has subsidiaries in USA, France and Germany and distributors for many other parts of the world.
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    PhpStorm

    PhpStorm

    JetBrains

    The Lightning-Smart PHP IDE. PhpStorm deeply understands your code. PhpStorm is perfect for working with Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress, Zend Framework, Magento, Joomla!, CakePHP, Yii, and other frameworks. The editor actually 'gets' your code and deeply understands its structure, supporting all the PHP language features for modern and legacy projects. It provides the best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and more. Make the most of the cutting edge front-end technologies, such as HTML 5, CSS, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Emmet, and JavaScript, with refactorings, debugging, and unit testing available. See the changes instantly in the browser thanks to Live Edit. Perform many routine tasks right from the IDE, thanks to the Version Control Systems integration, support for remote deployment, databases/SQL, command-line tools, Docker, Composer, REST Client, and many other tools.
    Starting Price: $199 per user per year
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    Neptune DXP

    Neptune DXP

    Neptune Software

    Neptune Software's leading low-code app development platform - Neptune DXP – digitizes and optimizes business processes and user interfaces – at scale and with ease. Neptune DXP offers enterprise mobility, as well as the best low-code app development for SAP customers with the choice of no-code/low-code app development. The platform gives IT departments the right tools to build the apps they need. Neptune DXP provides a fast, cost-effective, and future-proof way to industrialize the development of custom applications (especially SAP Fiori, SAP mobile applications), turning your IT organization into an app factory, saving time and money on enterprise app development, app integration, and enterprise app operations.
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    Thinfinity VirtualUI

    Thinfinity VirtualUI

    Cybele Software, Inc

    Thinfinity Virtual UI is a development platform that allows you to take any existing Desktop Application and publish it as a web solution. By adding a single line of code to any of your existing software, you will be enabling dual-platform functionality. Releasing a Windows application to the web has never been so easy. It really is that simple!!! Integrating with any language supporting Win32, GDI/GDI+ API, and ActiveX/COM, Thinfinity VirtualUI redirects Windows calls and drawing commands to the remote HTML5 canvas.
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    AWS Cloud9
    AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. It includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal. Cloud9 comes prepackaged with essential tools for popular programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, PHP, and more, so you don’t need to install files or configure your development machine to start new projects. Since your Cloud9 IDE is cloud-based, you can work on your projects from your office, home, or anywhere using an internet-connected machine. Cloud9 also provides a seamless experience for developing serverless applications enabling you to easily define resources, debug, and switch between local and remote execution of serverless applications. With Cloud9, you can quickly share your development environment with your team, enabling you to pair program and track each other's inputs in real time.
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    RAD Studio

    RAD Studio

    Embarcadero

    The Ultimate RAD environment loved by developers for quickly building high-performance native cross-platform applications in modern C++ and Delphi using powerful visual design tools and integrated toolchains. Smarter code navigation when refactoring. Auto code completion with Tab key. LSP awareness of Include files. Auto restart of LSP server. Class helper support. Array suggestions when assigning arrays. Inactive code highlighting in Code Editor. High-DPI support in the IDE, with full support for the latest 4k+ monitors, and cleaner and sharper fonts and icons throughout. Improved FMX High-DPI support for Windows and Desktop with a visibly superior desktop UI. Reduces the complexities of rapidly building and deploying a multi-tier turn-key enterprise REST API application server with Swagger support.
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    Delphi

    Delphi

    Embarcadero

    Delphi is the ultimate IDE for creating cross-platform, natively compiled apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience.
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    C++Builder

    C++Builder

    Embarcadero

    C++Builder is a fast, integrated design and development suite for modern apps. Are you ready to design the best UIs of your life? Our award winning VCL framework for Windows and FireMonkey (FMX) visual framework for cross-platform UIs provide you with the foundation for intuitive, beautiful user interfaces that wow on every platform: Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Design your master UI layout once, then easily customize platform- and device-specific views without duplication of design effort. Drag-and-drop visual and non-visual components from the palette using our visual designer. Visually connect user interface elements to data sources using the LiveBindings Designer. Real-time design validation using Live On-Device Preview to broadcast the active form to multiple devices simultaneously. Add responsive design with resolution-aware components for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. Real, platform-specific native controls for an improved user experience.
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    Scriptcase

    Scriptcase

    Netmake

    An efficient web development low-code platform. It helps you to create complete web systems and Business Intelligence solutions fast and easy! Scriptcase enables you to design, develop and elegant, responsive, database-driven applications using only your web browser. A powerful PHP generator for you to develop fast, simple, secure at a low cost. Connect with your database (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Interbase, SQL Azure, Amazon Aurora, Firebird, Access, Oracle, MS SQLServer, DB2, SyBase, Informix or ODBC layer) and generate web applications based on your tables, simply and safely. Make the data access and maintenance an uncomplicated step! Scriptcase offers an XLS, CSV and ACCESS spreadsheet import and conversion features for the databases supported by Scriptcase. With this import tool you can easily transform your spreadsheets into system applications.
    Starting Price: $349
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    Aqua Data Studio

    Aqua Data Studio

    AquaFold, an Idera, Inc. company

    Aqua Data Studio is a multiple-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for data. It provides benefits to a variety of data-centric roles, allowing them to manage a wide range of data sources. Aqua Data Studio provides scalable, cross-platform data management, supporting IT and data-centric specialists, including developers, database administrators, as well as data analysts, data modelers, and data architects. Simplifies tedious tasks involving SQL queries, data, result sets, schema, data models, files, instances, servers, as well as automation. Aqua Data Studio can be installed on the three popular operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux. The graphical user interface can display the nine of the most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Aqua Data Studio supports over 40 of the most popular data source platforms, including relational, NoSQL, as well as managed cloud data source
    Starting Price: $499 per user per year
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    G.V() - Gremlin IDE
    G.V() is an all-in-one Gremlin IDE to write, debug, test and analyze results for your Gremlin graph database. It offers rich a UI with smart autocomplete, graph visualization, editing and connection management. G.V() automatically detects your connection setting requirements based on the hostname you provide and prompts you for the next required information for an easy onboarding experience, regardless of which Gremlin database you're using. Load, visualize and draw your graph in true “What You See Is What You Get” fashion to build, test, visualize and query your data easily. Learn Gremlin with the embedded documentation and G.V()'s in-memory graph. View your Gremlin query results in various formats allowing to test, navigate and understand your query results rapidly. Compatible with all major Apache TinkerPop enabled Graph Database Providers: Amazon Neptune, Azure Cosmos DB’s Gremlin API, DataStax Enterprise Graph, JanusGraph, ArcadeDB, Aliyun TairForGraph and Gremlin Server.
    Starting Price: $50/month/user
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    GeneXus

    GeneXus

    Globant

    Simplify and Automate Software Development with GeneXus GeneXus is a Low-Code Platform powered by AI that simplifies and automates software creation. By modeling instead of coding, it generates complete solutions—from user interfaces to backends—faster and with less complexity. With 35+ years of experience, GeneXus helps enterprises build scalable, AI-driven systems, modernize legacy software, and adapt to new technologies without rework. It supports development across web, mobile, and desktop platforms, seamlessly integrating databases, APIs, and enterprise systems. Trusted in over 50 countries, GeneXus is a leader in the low-code market.
    Starting Price: $0
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    WixPie

    WixPie

    WixPie

    If you want to create installers for software that you created on the Windows platform it's most likely that you tried to use the Wix-Toolset. So what is the Wix-Toolset? Basically the Wix-Toolset can create installers for the windows platform from files what are written in XML and this is very useful for example when it comes to version control. But when the XML files gets bigger and bigger it can be a challenge to make sense of it all. At this point you can use WixPie to change the script or create a new script and if you don't want to use WixPie at some point you can just switch to some basic editor to change the files directly. WixPie doesn't use project files but you can select one or more files and WixPie will base the information you see on that. In most software you will be overwhelmed by all the possibilities. If we compare it with a laptop keyboard and a touchscreen on a smartphone you will see less options at once on the smartphone because you don't need to see all.
    Starting Price: €5/month/user
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    DB PowerStudio

    DB PowerStudio

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    Administer, manage changes, tune queries, and develop relational databases. Database professionals need to minimize the time and effort spent on the routine management and development of databases across the organization. To address this challenge, benefit from IDERA’s bundle of top tools for the management and development of multiple database platforms. Perform database administration. Automate and manage complex database schema changes. Automate SQL query tuning and profiling. Develop SQL code efficiently.
    Starting Price: $1,699.20 per user
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    CodeSandbox

    CodeSandbox

    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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    MatDeck

    MatDeck

    LabDeck

    MatDeck is a universal, technical software for Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Coding, Databases and many other uses. Our software offers a complete Python IDE; thousands of mathematical functions; a drag and drop GUI Designer and various visualization tools, all embedded within a cutting-edge, live document for an inexpensive and professional computing environment.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Storyboard

    Storyboard

    Crank AMETEK

    Storyboard is an embedded GUI development framework that accelerates the design and delivery of modern UX for tomorrow’s IoT and wearable devices. With its Rapid Design Import and Iteration Technology, embedded developers around the world are able to create products that offer unmatched GUI experiences (graphics, voice, and audio), uniquely optimized for all operating systems and platforms, including resource-constrained MCU and MPU platforms. Storyboard aligns embedded developers with the iterative change processes of designers — using popular tools like Sketch and Photoshop — helping manufacturers achieve high-quality UX without sacrificing performance or development time. With only a few mouse clicks, developers use Storyboard to visualize changed assets and rapidly assess, accept, or reject elements in a timesaving manner. This accelerated workflow allows teams to refine their products at any stage in their development cycle.
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    Code::Blocks

    Code::Blocks

    Code::Blocks

    Code::Blocks is a free, open-source, cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) primarily designed for C, C++, and Fortran development. Known for its lightweight design and modular structure, Code::Blocks offers a highly customizable interface with support for multiple compilers, including GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++. It features an intuitive, user-friendly interface with essential tools like syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion, and a robust debugging environment with breakpoints, variable inspection, and call stack tracing. Code::Blocks is highly extensible through plugins, enabling developers to add features like version control, scripting support, and custom build tools. Its lightweight nature, flexibility, and cross-platform compatibility make it a popular choice for students, educators, and developers working on small to medium-sized C/C++ projects.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Rapid SQL

    Rapid SQL

    IDERA, an Idera, Inc. company

    Rapid SQL helps database developers to create high-performing SQL code for multiple database platforms. Unlike its competition, it provides efficient debugging of stored procedures and functions to eliminate coding errors, and the integrated code analyst to perform detailed response time analysis on the execution of stored procedures and functions.
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    Theia

    Theia

    Theia

    Eclipse Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. Not sure whether you need a web or desktop version or both? With Theia you can develop one IDE and run it in browsers or native desktop application from a single source. The Theia project is hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, and is developed by a diverse community. Unlike other "open-source" projects, projects hosted at an Open-Source Foundation are protected against single-vendor decisions against the interest of the diverse community. Theia is designed in a modular way to allow extenders and adopters customizing and extending every aspect of it. Composing a custom IDE-like product is as easy as listing all needed extensions in a package.json file. Adding new functionality by implementing your own extensions is easy, too and provides all the flexibility you need.
    Starting Price: $0
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    CodeLite

    CodeLite

    CodeLite

    CodeLite is a free, open-source, cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed primarily for C, C++, PHP, and JavaScript development. It offers a lightweight and highly customizable environment with support for multiple compilers, including GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++. CodeLite features an intuitive code editor with syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and code refactoring capabilities. It also includes an integrated debugger with support for GDB, making it easy to set breakpoints, inspect variables, and trace call stacks. Additionally, CodeLite supports Node.js and TypeScript development, making it a versatile choice for both desktop and web-based applications. Its flexibility, cross-platform compatibility (Windows, macOS, and Linux), and integration with popular version control systems like Git and Subversion make it a go-to IDE for developers seeking a lightweight alternative to more resource-intensive environments.
    Starting Price: Free
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