# Page 10 | IntelliJ IDEA Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 10 - Is IntelliJ IDEA the right Application Development solution for you? Explore 1256 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/reviews --- IntelliJ IDEA 4.7 (1256) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 10 - Reviews of IntelliJ IDEA ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 226-250 of 1256 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My go to JAVE development IDE, for the last few years." September 17, 2019 4.0 IntelliJ Idea is a great IDE for Java development. But for different languages, IntelliJ Idea would not be sufficient for different functionalities and processes. Pros I feel very comfortable when using IntelliJ idea for development especially in java. It has abundant features, and plugins to manage and implement the code. The IDE is very fast and provides great performance compared to other IDEs like netbeans etc. It is also very rich and smart in auto code completion etc. Easy to run unit tests with good debugging features. Cons It could be a bit hard to get used to the UI of intelliJ at the beginning. There are less features in the Community versionwhich is free. IntelliJ IDEA ultimate which has more features is pricey.With bigger projects, IntelliJ IDEA might be less efficient . Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ is the industry standard for Java projects" March 14, 2021 5.0 IntelliJ saves so much time and helps write better Java code that I'd be hard pressed to switch to another Java IDE at this point. Pros There are so many aspects to love about IntelliJ but my favorite feature is code snippets, this features saves me hours every week. Cons IntelliJ is a resource hog (RAM hungry), but my main gripe is that the IDE does so much it hard to discover all its capabilities. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Music Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ IDEA blows other Java IDEs out of the water" May 5, 2018 5.0 Pros I've used IntelliJ IDEA for years, with a variety of languages and frameworks - Java, Grails, Struts, Spring, Groovy, Scala, Gradle, Maven, Ivy, Git, SVN. It is hands down the best Java IDE on the market today. Eclipse and NetBeans are not even close. IntelliJ's code completion, code inspection, refactoring support and plugin ecosystem are ridiculously good. The performance is top notch, if you're used to Eclipse you're never going to look back. The VCS integration is amazing. You're leaving money on the table if you haven't bought this for every Java developer in your organization. It's worth it's weight in gold for developer productivity. Cons Scala support is lacking, so that was disappointing. It can be a memory hog (1-2GB), though this isn't usually a problem with developer machines. Review Source EO Edmunds O. QA Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "House IntellJ the rulers of Java/Kotlin " November 21, 2022 4.0 Really easy to use, lerned lots of things for Java on this specific IDEA Pros Easy to navigate, gives vast amount of posibilities to develop/test and has easy begginer learning curve. Cons Sometimes hard to understand what is needed to be updated. Crashes/freezes from time to time, especially if trying to emulate an android device Switched from [Visual Studio Code](https://www.capterra.com/p/186634/Visual-Studio-Code/) Specifically for Java/Kotlin tasks everything is set up and ready to go Review Source DS Dmytro S. Java Tech Lead Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ IDEA personal opinion" January 16, 2019 5.0 I am using IDEA from 2004 and I could say that it is best Java Development Environment ever invented. Their team improves software every time as new Java version is appearing, and every time somebody finds a new issue in IDE. They have very democratic policy of using IDEA ultimate version for free. If you're a student or educational person, or even a scientist - you can use full version of IDE for free. Also if you're buying it - during a year JetBrains team could give you a discount coupon, so next year will be much cheaper for you. Pros \- Self explanatory menu - A lot of documentation in help section as well as helpful information on jetBrains forums and Jira - Easy to remember hot keys for managing files and classes creation and renaming - very smart code indexing so the IDE could do a very detailed precompiled analysys - IDEA is integrated with other language development tools like - any SQL client, JavaScript files code analysys, maven/gradle/ant scripting support - IDE is working on any known popular OS without any problems - Windows, Mac and all versions of linux are working nice Cons \- Sometimes file index mechanism is not working correctly - in this case I should call "Validate and Restart" procedure for IDEA. It usually takes time even on fast computers. - Sometimes IDEA fails updating application dependency when common Maven script was updated, In this case I should manually check/uncheck option in settings menu to make IDEA refresh code and dependency changes automatically Review Source JM Jaroth M. Student Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "IntelliJ a great software for developers." April 27, 2022 5.0 My overall experience was absolutely good, I love this software. Pros I really like the functions, the options and the differents tools that you can use in this software to create a lot of useful programs, projects, applications, this software provide us a lot of things. Cons I like least the graphic interface, for a lot of people that is starting with this software can be stressful or hard to understand because it have a lot of things in the screen and in some cases it's really hard. Alternatives considered [Apache NetBeans](https://www.capterra.com/p/178681/Apache-NetBeans/)[Visual Studio Code](https://www.capterra.com/p/186634/Visual-Studio-Code/) Reason for choosing IntelliJ IDEA Because intelliJ provide us great tools and options. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer software engineer Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "開発に必要な環境がすぐに揃う" December 30, 2022 5.0 Pros 必要な機能が、プラグインを導入することなく、または少量のプラグインを導入することで利用可能になります。VSCodeと比べると、拡張機能の種類が少ないと思いますが、それだけ洗練されたものしかないとも言えます。 Cons いずれ解決されるとは思いますが、wlsとの連携が難しいように思います。 Review Source Anu A. Web and Mobile App Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best full fledged IDE" January 3, 2019 5.0 I have had nothing but a great experience ever since i got used to the intellij environment. Pros This development environment has various feature which helps me as a web and mobile developer build more efficiently. I can refractor my code base easily without the fear of crashes. Refactoring has never been easier. I love the color scheme of the Dracula theme. Over the years, i have gotten used to identifying bugs like uncalled methods, uninitialised variables quickly by merely checking the colors. Code suggestion: it suggests created and library methods/classes/variables after typing few letters. Cons Gradle synchronization is frustrating especially when manually configuring app projects. There is rampancy in unresolved classes hence the need to clean and rebuild projects as classes which, is tiring. Review Source Wishwa P. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The most awesome IDE" August 15, 2019 5.0 It's awesome. I started with Jetbrains students package when I was a University student and I introduced it to my friends and now everyone is using Jetbrains products. Pros IDEA by Jetbrains has uncountable number of feature other IDE's never though about. Version Control Integration, Database Integration , Code auto Saving, Material and Dark themes, Syntax Suggestions and much more with regular awesome lightweight updates. And also it's available with Windows, Linux & MacOS. How awesome is that. Cons There's absolutely nothing to worry about. Since there is community edition too, Anyone can try it out freely. Reason for choosing IntelliJ IDEA Since it has so much features available, 30 days trial period and community version it's the best solution to go. Review Source HK Harshil K. Student Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My Experience With IntillijIdea" December 12, 2022 5.0 IntillijIdea is a great IDE for developers who want a powerful and efficient solution. It's easy to use and offers many features that make developing apps and websites easier. Pros IntillijIdea is an extremely powerful and efficient integrated development environment (IDE) from JetBrains. The IDE is highly customizable and provides many useful features such as code completion, refactoring, version control, and a built-in debugger. It's also very easy to use and navigate around. Cons One of the drawbacks of IntillijIdea is that it requires a lot of memory and disk space. It can also be a bit pricey for some users. Alternatives considered [Eclipse IDE](https://www.capterra.com/p/205298/Eclipse-IDE/)[Visual Studio Code](https://www.capterra.com/p/186634/Visual-Studio-Code/) Reason for choosing IntelliJ IDEA After researching each of the alternatives, I chose IntillijIdea because of its powerful features, efficient performance, and intuitive user interface. It is very easy to code using IntillijIdea instead of VS code or Eclipse. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Full Stack Engineer Real Estate Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I cannot work without IntelliJ" October 28, 2020 5.0 I am in love with Jetbrains products and IntelliJ IDEA is the reason why. I cannot emphasize enough how important this product is for my workflow. Pros The Intellisense auto-completion is just great and once you get used to the shortcuts, productivity gets boosted 10x to 20x. I install plugins for all languages that I require and one IDE takes care of everything. Cons The price itself of the product might seem expensive but I think it's definitely value for money. The keyboard shortcuts are different than VSCode or other editors that people use so it might make migration tough for those users but one can always reconfigure shortcuts. Review Source GF Gweh F. Développeur Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "IntelliJ IDEA un IDE très performat" October 27, 2023 5.0 S'adapte à tous les languages Pros IntelliJ IDEA est l'un des IDE les plus performât du faite de ses fonctionnalités très avancées Cons Il faut payer une licence d''utilisation et il est très lourd pour l'installation Review Source Samridh S. Electrical Engineer II Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Amazing Platform for Java Developers" April 17, 2019 4.0 Pros I used IntelliJ while getting my feet wet into the Java world and it is one of the most widely used and intuitive platform currently available for software developers and software companies. This Java IDE is pretty much loaded with so many libraries and predefined fucntionalities which makes a developers life easier and their work precise and accurate. It is a very easy to learn platform as well provided one has some prior programming and object oriented code development experience from C++, C# and such. java is one the most widely used programming language and with this IDE one can perform easy code debugging, code replication and code management. I like that this platform is also very well integrated with the GIT and it's ability to provide code hints and suggestions is one of the best out there currently. The code validation feature is also very important feature and it helped me a lot during my initial learning curve of the platform. It is a very well maintained, updated platform with lot of database and it is widely used in the industry hence once can find help and answers online for any kind of issues. Cons There is a learning curve so if one is not so much aware of OO programming using a different tool first may be a good idea. It is expensive but they do provide free trial of the software so it is very easy to get started on it and start getting familiar with the tool. It does require quite a bit of RAM memory hence a faster computer will be ideal otherwise it might take of time to process bigger codes. The APIs of this system is growing very fast but it could probably use a little more development. Review Source FJA Francisco Javier A. Software developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IDE not only for Java developers" September 2, 2019 4.0 Main benefits are the quick way to find classes and the integration with Tomcat. It has a big community behind that is growing and a lot of plugins are created to work with it. I use mainly for the backend code (Java) but it is very good also for Android. About coding in Javascript I prefer other IDEs. Pros I really liked the integration with Tomcast at time to run different projects. To allow having several projects running and opening sockets to read from different ports and being able to debug locally. Thanks to the good indexing of this IDE, it is very quick to find any class, method or file in the code. Including a nice way to navigate in the code. It is very useful to select texts and see their values without using drag & drop, or refactor pieces of code easily. Cons I didn't like the keyboard shortcuts that weren't enough for me. Something I noticed is that for some of the common shortcuts, in IntelliJ the redefined their own shortcuts making them different than in the general IDEs' solution. This is annoying to have to learn for each IDE a set of specific shortcuts. For example the way of commenting code which is different than for other IDEs that are sharing the same key configuration. The visual aspect can be improved. Review Source Nhan N. Senior Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best IDE on the market" January 16, 2022 4.0 I mostly use to develop enterprise microservice Pros Marketplace: IntelliJ IDEA has many plugins to enhance its feature set. It also has plugin to support different programming languages. Built-in support popular framework: IntelliJ IDEA integrates with popular Java frameworks very well. Spring, for example, it notifies me that I forget to add a bean declaration here and there. This feature saves me a lot of build time. Cons Since IntelliJ has many features, I find it a bit slow and resource-hungry when loading large projects. Startup times can take a while to load properly, so it can take me 2-3 minutes for having a quick look at the code. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best IDE software but comes with a price" September 24, 2022 4.0 I spent some time using it for about two years on my personal macBook and it lacks in overall usability of a CTO. However, for specific languages it do stands out in the crowd and no other IDE can beat that even in paid versions Pros It's not a pro though - This is the software I started using after watching open-source/paid tutorials for other languages and I was quite surprised to see every option it provides out of the box. However, I was only able to use the free version and it seems like it do have intelligent sense which can surely scale up the development just like any other IDE in the market. Paid version has only best features. Only for professionals Cons You really have to pay lots of money and developers from India are not used to pay much money if they are not funded by any investors and this software is not for beginners Review Source Nayana R. Quality Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My Experience with IntelliJ IDEA" April 1, 2023 5.0 IntelliJ IDEA also has a large and active plugin ecosystem, which allows users to customize and extend the IDE with additional features and tools. The IDE's user interface is generally user-friendly, although new users may need to spend some time learning how to navigate and use its many features. Pros IntelliJ IDEA provides intelligent code completion and suggestions, making it easier for developers to write code quickly and efficiently. Cons IntelliJ IDEA can be quite resource-intensive, particularly for larger codebases, which can slow down the development process and require powerful hardware to run smoothly. Review Source Ilan P. SR QA Engineer Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Well thought out and reliable IDE" October 14, 2021 5.0 Pros intelliJ is reliable and fast. The integrations between all the tools I need to make my environment work are smooth and I never spend time debugging the environment. The integrations to the tools I need are good and the interface makes it a pleasure to work with. Cons The integration to GitHub is sometimes a little frustrating to use. There is no support for MFA auth from intelliJ Review Source TR Travis R. Owner Broadcast Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The 100 Year Java IDE War" June 18, 2020 5.0 It works, its a full blown Java IDE. If you're building a Web App or a Game Server, it'll do it. It works, looks, and feels, just like netbeans/eclipse/etc. You have a file dir window/panel then the code editor. you can run builds and bug checks. It auto reads classnames n such to cross reference your code live while typing it. Pros Default darkmode, the sexiest IDE with a default install (no plugins/themes). Also Android plugin, to make transition from web jar app to apk app easier. Cons TBH I just don't feel that there's anything that sets this apart from Netbeans or other IDE. Oracle manages Java JDK's/JRE's for Debain/Ubuntu repo's as well as Netbeans. So that alone is why for NEW Java developers I suggest Netbeans. IntelliJ I offer as another solid alternative. Just their marketing of all the different IDE's for other languages they offer, then versions of those... Can be overwhelming/confusing for NEW users, so if I refer someone that way... I'm almost guaranteed to have a heap of questions of what version to use, should I be coding this is Java vs Python vs C. Switched from [Apache NetBeans](https://www.capterra.com/p/178681/Apache-NetBeans/) A ) A is for Android, the android plugin is how I found this IDE B) Their suite of IDE's for various other code languages C) Alternatives, right now these IDE's are all about head to head with features, optimizations, and such... but... one day... one will step ahead... Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Graphic Designer Graphic Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Most preferred for Java Development " April 29, 2022 5.0 My overrall experience have been good, I started using Intellij IDE as a beginner, I mastered the act of developing in Java with Intellij IDE and I have not had any reason to switch to another IDE ever since. Pros Intellij IDE is beginner friendly. It also have a really cool autocompletion system and makes reasonable suggestions to your codes hence promoting good code structure and organisation. You can also develop any kind of java application with Intellij IDEA because there is provision for a very large amount of Plugins. Cons A Personal Computer with Low storage may not perform very fast when Intellij IDE is being used. Hence a PC with good storage is needed to used Intellij IDE to the fullest Review Source Zack H. Senior Software Engineer Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Fantastic IDE" July 16, 2019 5.0 Pros IntelliJ is the best Java IDE available. It is extremely user friendly and the design of the program is very sleek and modern. It is highly customizable and compatible with many add ons. Cons It can run a bit heavy (uses a lot of RAM), but it's worth it. Review Source PC Paula C. Math/Computer Science Teacher Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I use this compiler with my AP Computer Science students to give them a real-world experience." August 9, 2017 5.0 Increased productivity is a primary benefit. Student productivity is high because of the excellent feedback provided by the compiler and it makes it very easy for me to do my assessment of their programs. Pros This is the best compiler I have ever used because it is feature rich and not too difficult for my AP Computer Science students to use. They are a little intimidated at the beginning of the school year, but acclimate to it very quickly. They love the debugging features and editing ease the product provides. One feature used often is the "reformat code" option. I wanted my students to work with a real professional compiler to see what the pros use and they love it. The user-based license allows them to use the product at home as well as at school. We also discovered that the Android Studio is also built on the IntelliJ platform and that made it really easy for them to adapt when we worked on Android apps this year. A final plus id the stability of the compiler. I have rarely seen it crash. Cons The program is slow to load due to the vast number of plugins. So, it's a trade-off for the flexibility. Since you can customize many plugins, I don't think I have any other cons to mention. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Technical Operations Specialist Information Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Can't Imagine Using Anything Else Now" July 17, 2021 5.0 Overall IntelliJ is an incredibly powerful tool. It's basically become where I spend 90% of my time working. Absolutely worth taking the time to invest in integrating everything into one place. Pros The ability to integrate your file structure, database structure, and script into a single view is absolutely crucial. Split windows, git integration, etc. are all great to have as well. Being able to pull up tables and code side by side is the real winner though, as it greatly reduces the need for task switching. Cons There is somewhat of a learning curve, obviously it helps to have someone on your team who knows the ins and outs of set up. The only area I found slightly lacking was the inability to pin or organize tabs. For example, one might want to keep tabs for Python scrips to one side, and those for SQL query consoles to the other (or group tabs by project, etc.) Review Source DL Daniel L. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Value doesn't beat VSCode for our usecase" March 2, 2023 4.0 Pros It has better dev experience when writing in Java Cons The hardware resources it consumes and the memory leak that takes place gradually if the software is left open. The paid features and pros are outweight when using VScode to work on web development, the experience is inferior to VScode and it is also a free product. Lastly, better documentation on onboarding and setting things up, ie. How can I setup my python django server and have it setup properly with my venv and docker? The general setup steps are outlined but they are not specific enough. Review Source FG Florian G. Student Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ IDEA review" November 4, 2022 5.0 I use the software many years and started developing with it. I never had any problems with it. It is easy to use and the interface is also logicaly sorted so it is allways clear where to search and find stuff. Pros Its easy to use and the documentation is well written. Also it is nice to develop Software with the tools. Other tools from them are also great. Cons I dont realy see any cons, the software has everything it needs and they know what they are doing. Alternatives considered [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/80230/microsoft-visual-studio/) Reason for choosing IntelliJ IDEA It was recommended at the start of my degree, later on i just like it. Review Source