# Page 15 | IntelliJ IDEA Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 15 - Is IntelliJ IDEA the right Application Development solution for you? Explore 1257 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 (1257) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/alternatives/) 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 15 - Reviews of IntelliJ IDEA ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 351-375 of 1257 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Josmar J. Desarrollador de java Used the software for: 2+ years ### "It the best IDE for java developer" May 7, 2018 5.0 Pros \- So easy to configurate shorcut. - Excelent to integrate whith maven, gradle proyect. Pespective and tool incorporate for them. - Look and feel can be easily manipulated and totally customized. - Better memory management than Eclipse. Cons \- Error marking is less visual during development, (can not be accessed quickly from classes). - Very slow to start. - It does not allow to keep multiple projects in the same window. - it does not allow copy and paste settings between windows. Example variables of environments. Review Source Miguel Eduardo R. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IDEal IDE" August 2, 2019 5.0 I manage to learn quick where is every tool I need. I feel is one of the most complete IDE for java. Pros The wide variety of languages that supports and it's very useful for debugging and testing. Also it has integrated Git tools. Cons The first time you use it, it's some confusing and take time to remember where are the diferents tools. Switched from [Apache NetBeans](https://www.capterra.com/p/178681/Apache-NetBeans/) It's has more features. Review Source Yash S. Software Engineer - 1 Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Review of IntelliJ IDEA" November 19, 2022 5.0 I have a good overall experience with intelliJ IDEA, as I have used it as an IDE , which makes my work efficient because we can execute the program and also debug it , so that a lot of time gets saved , as it pin points the error line , we can directly go their and resolve the error, and it also provides the suggestion to resolve issues. Pros I have used this software as an IDE for Python and Java, it is the best software for coding and development purpose, as its fast and also provide many 3rd party packages and libraries to be imported and then used in our application, we can create a mobile/web/gui or any other type of an application with this software. Cons I found out that noob/beginners might find it difficult to grab things available on intelliJ as it's very functional and have alot of things to grab, so they can make some changes in their GUI so that everything will not gets popped as a beginner starts writing their first application. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ IDEA review" September 5, 2019 5.0 Overall it is an awesome software which understands the need for software developers. The above-mentioned features surely help developers with all of their day to day work. Pros Provides a lot of features like in-built decompiler, advanced debugging and code coverage, auto-save etc. It is also really easy to use and is free. Works great for java development. Provides support for various plugins. Cons Not the best IDE for working with scripting languages like javascript. If you are switching from an IDE like eclipse debugging could feel a little different sometimes. Review Source Erica P. CEO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Complete RAD IDE" November 28, 2018 5.0 I'm software developer, using IntelliJ IDEA for 3 years. Pros Best software for develop software:) I write in PHP 7 using PostgreSQL, Javascript, Angular, Yii2 famework, Python etc.... It has FTP/SFTP client, works with GIT repositories (and others). Its rapidly fast, has great search/replace engine, hotlinking, plugins, etc. You can work with many projects in the same time (RAM is the limit:)). I can not imagine working without it. Cons Programs written in JAVA has memory leaks sometimes, but latest versions of IntelliJ are very stable. Review Source Jesús B. Especialista sénior Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best IDE for software development" August 1, 2018 5.0 When I was looking for an IDE to develop in what is my main programming language (JAVA), this software has been very useful and I think it is the best thing that currently exists in the market. Pros Integration with multiple plugins, which we can find in your mini store. The best debugger in the IDE market, comparing it with other large IDEs, the debugger and integration that this has is another level. Its integration with Maven and multiple servers make it the best. Simulation of servers such as weblogic and tomcat in their own VM. Cons a little high cost of the software, in the market there are many similar developers who prefer its use to see the high cost of Intellij and offer only some additional tools to other IDE Review Source Alon R. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ IDEA is the smartest IDE out" December 12, 2018 5.0 I use IntelliJ at work and at home for all kinds of development projects. Pros I love the integrations for all kinds of languages. There is even a plugin for making Garmin smartwatch apps! I use this mainly for JavaScript, Node, Java development and it has always been a breeze. They have a student license as well (perks of going back to school!) that makes it free to use for personal projects. Cons It sometimes loads really slow, and indexing large apps can take a long time. However, this is to be expected for the IDE functionality it gives. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sr. Engineering Manager Retail Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntejjiJ - More intelligent that all IDEs" September 16, 2019 5.0 Going good so far. Developers are loking it and it has made their life easy. Pros 1\. Suggestor 2. Different settings 3. Gradle and maven ease 4. Java and Groovy in one GO 5. Build and bootrun from single window Cons 1\. Sometimes hangs and a bit heavy on system CPU 2. Gradle build sometimes have to be done multiple times for importing the dependencies Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Speedy alternative to otherwise clunkier Java environments" March 27, 2019 5.0 Pros It was my belief that the laptops given to us at work were always meant to be slow when coding in Java but IntelliJ definitely runs lighter than some of the other and more standard business IDEs that we were recommended such as Eclipse and Netbeans. Cons While running on a slow computer, because the intelligent auto-lookup system looks at an entire project, you do have to tailor your search space or else when you do global searches or it auto-completes for you in projects, there will be stutters in the results simply because you are searching hundreds of little files. Though the search space tailoring is possible in post, I do wish I was prompted about it beforehand. Review Source JB Jimish B. Content Creator Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Tough Competitior of Eclipse IDE" April 25, 2022 4.0 Overall it's a good product. The support for mulitple langugagues makes it complete. Pros It's a complete package. It has all the features and functionality a developer needs. It's addon library is extensive. GitHub autopilot integration works like a charm. It has exhaustive debugging capabilities. Cons It's a heavy software to run. It takes time to get acutomed to the User Interface. It has unconventional keyboard shortcuts. Review Source Bharat P. IT officer Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Nice software" February 17, 2023 4.0 I like it and I recommend to all beginner developers to use it. Pros When we are coding in IJ they give a lot auto complete functionality. means we are typing any code like we use print function so we no need to type all function. Cons Na Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "lightning fast in compiling code" September 30, 2020 4.0 In my 15+ years of experience, I have worked on a handful IDE tools and believe me I found it the best. I will never think of switching back to any other IDE until it keeps on upgrading itself. Pros Its speed and performance as compared to other IDE tools fascinated me to switch to IntelliJ. A rich tool in terms of features and options available. Cons A steep learning curve to adopt this tool sometime makes this tool not-much-impressive amongst developers. But once a developer becomes familiar to it, it is very hard to make them working with their earlier IDEs. Review Source Akhil S. Staff Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Intellij IDEA Best IDE for Java Developement" September 22, 2021 4.0 I am Having good time with Paid version of IntelliJ IDEA , Must have software for my mac-book Pros Ever since i am using the Intellij i am no longer addicted to Eclipse, with lots of varieties of Plugins and theme's this is definetly an Go to product for Any Software developement Cons Should be Opensource ,currently only community edition is free Review Source Ben S. IT Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Brilliant IDE" April 30, 2019 5.0 Whenever I need to code in Java, this is where I turn and I'm upset I didn't find it sooner! Pros I stumbled upon IntelliJ accidentally, however I am grateful I did. They (Jetbrains) make IDE's for Python and Java to name a few products and they are really terrific. IntelliJ (Java) and its Python counterpart Pycharm are my go to IDE's for a number of reasons. I choose IntelliJ as my Java IDE primarily due to its awesome features that prevent issues down the line. Code autocomplete is an awesome one, results come up quickly and are easy to select. This is great as it prevents any mistakes such as spelling errors in variable names e.t.c. Additionally there is some ongoing error checking that can prevent other errors before you run. As additional bonuses: The software looks great and feels great in use, it has built in GIT functionality and there are plugins to add language support such as Python or R amongst others. Cons Sometimes it can be a RAM hog, but this is honestly not that big of a deal especially when compared to other applications which are way worse. Review Source Yana P. QA Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Just a perfect tool for coding" June 4, 2020 5.0 I'm using this tool to practice and coding on Java language and also create Automation tests using Selenium plugins so for me it is the best tool to use, i like that it has shortcuts for faster work and tips also debugging process is very convenient. Pros IntelliJ Idea its my best favourite tool where I can practice in coding on Java, it has all you need, plugins , tips, nice debugging option, very quick working, super nice dark theme. Just love it! Cons Didn't find any negatives in this tool it is so awesome! You can do everything that you want to do with a comfort. Review Source MK Marcin K. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ IDEA - for every Java idea" March 29, 2022 5.0 A complete piece of software for every Java and Kotlin developer. If you want to ask "Does it have ..." the answer is "Yes, it probably has, but you have to find it in numerous menus and panels" I wouldn't change IntelliJ for any other Java IDE Pros That it's versatile, I'm using this software for like 2+ years and I still don't know all it's options and possibilities, well organized GUI with a lot of panels and different options to view and browse code and files Cons It's heavy and resource consuming. It also lacks a step-by-step guide which would show the user basic/medium/advanced features of that software. I would be able to do some tasks easier or faster if I would have known about some possibilities that I learned much later. Review Source Cristian Camilo G. Research Student Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I used this IDE to code in java projects for one graduate class" June 7, 2018 5.0 All of functionalities that it has helps a lot, you can import projects from git hub and perform all the features from IntelliJ, the structure of the project is so organized Pros All of functionalities that it has, it helps a lot when you're coding it creates a methods for you and give to you hints and tips for code, so if you're beginner developer it will help you a lot. You can import projects from git hub, do commits, pull, push all functions from git directly in the IntelliJ The structure of the project is so organized and easy to find anything Cons I'm student and I applied for student license, but the commercial price is really high and it difficult the use for some companies like startups. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer QA Director - FIS Mobile Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Better than Eclipse" November 14, 2018 4.0 Best IDE that I have worked with coming from eclipse. Pros Out of the box it seems to have everything you need without having to get tons of plugins like eclipse, to some it may seem bloated but to me it was just right. I liked the layout of the IDE and of course the syntax highlighting was nice and clear. Cons It is a bit resource intensive when compiling it sometimes takes up your whole cpu. On occassion it kinda just stops but does not seem to lose anything seems to be limitation of my computer but not sure yet. Review Source cE chijou E. programmer Program Development Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "My best java IDE" December 16, 2022 5.0 Pros very easy to use and have one of the most beautiful interfaces I saw. it is the best java ide I have ever used. Cons I sometimes think some features a missing to make it an ultimate java ide. Switched from [Apache NetBeans](https://www.capterra.com/p/178681/Apache-NetBeans/) more attractive interface and more tools for code editing. Review Source Tamás S. Software Test Automation Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "IntelliJ IDEA review" April 21, 2020 5.0 I'm developing automated UI tests with it in Java for my company. Pros Very userfriendly and easy to use UI. It has endless plugins to add. Cons Error messages could be more detailed and helpful. Alternatives considered [Apache NetBeans](https://www.capterra.com/p/178681/Apache-NetBeans/) Reason for choosing IntelliJ IDEA More convenient and up to date. Switched from [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/80230/microsoft-visual-studio/) IntelliJ IDEA is free, and better for developing in JAVA. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Android Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Universal solution for developers" August 2, 2018 4.0 Pros Can be easily customized for any developer needs. Has lots of available integrations and plugins. Also great that products for other languages are based on the same platform and no need to learn the product again after switching. Cons No easy ways to report a bug. Users have to create account on YouTrack bug tracker first, so some users just stop at account creation step and decide to not report about found bug or problem. Probably, due to this fact lots of small bugs are found with every new release. Review Source AB Anis B. Software Development Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Heavy but very reliable software as an IDE" March 28, 2022 5.0 One of the best software for JAVA-based coding. Importing packages is really easy. Pros It has very good integrations with Git. It gives us got tools to fix merging conflicts when having a collision. Also the UI tool for git is good. Cons The default formatting of code is not that great. Sometimes the test does not work directly from the IDE and we have to run and fix paths to make them work. This can be improved. Review Source AA Alexander A. Associate Software Engineer Used the software for: ### "IntelliJ IDEA keeps out of my way and just works" November 3, 2014 4.0 I use IntelliJ both at work and at home, for both Java REST API and Web Frontend (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) work and it is my preferred IDE for doing so. Why? Here are a few reasons: - Deep integration with Maven. It is especially helpful to have the ability to create a chart of all dependencies for a specific maven component in order to track down version conflicts. In addition, the ability to watch for changes in the pom.xml and load any new dependencies is something I cannot live without. - Integration with Spring, which we use to wire together our components. Note that its integration isn't perfect, and there are times when it is not able to wire beans (I'm looking at you, @ComponentScan). However, it works for the most part, and that can be worked around by giving IntelliJ some hinting. - Ability to debug JavaScript straight inside the IDE. This is a feature that some members of our frontend team live by in Visual Studio, and I am happy to say it works just as well (or even better) with IntelliJ. - Powerful refactoring. This is something that is expected of IDEs now, but the ability to find all usages of a constructor or method or being able to change the name of a class in all places (including comments) is still very impressive. - Live templates are fantastic, and being able to easily define your own is even better. I find myself using these more, and miss them when I am in other editors. Now, there are a few places where I feel IntelliJ could improve: - As stated above, Spring 4 support can be somewhat flaky with its Spring bean detection when using @ComponentScan rather than an xml file. There are workarounds luckily. - Maven dependencies can sometimes disappear out of IntelliJ when the pom.xml is updated outside of it. Whenever this happens, I have to go try and force IntelliJ to redownload the missing dependencies and is not straight forward. - Performance over remote desktop is something that IntelliJ desperately needs to work on. I have to do config changes just to get it to work, and even then these changes cause occasional graphical glitches on the frontend side. It can lag at times when using it remotely, which is not something you want when you're trying to get work done. Overall, I recommend all of IntelliJ's products to others, and it provides all the functionality that I need. While there are a things they can work on, they certainly don't hinder my day-to-day tasks, and overall it rarely gets in my way when I am working. Review Source Francisco P. CTO Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I can't live without it" November 21, 2018 5.0 I started using IntelliJ a few years ago, back then I used to try different IDEs and was never really satisfied. Not the case with IntelliJ, I don't even look to any other tool, totally satisfied how they keep improving this tool. Now it has become the industry standard Pros It makes it so easy to do my work: the auto completion, the error detection, the syntax highlighting, the customisation, this is the first tool I install in a new computer Cons This software runs better if you have a powerful computer: some good ram, hdd and processor. But it is really worthy Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Intellij the best IDE" April 25, 2020 5.0 The team collaboration and integration are fantastic, absolutely the best ide for your team Pros This software aggregates the best features of an ide, it has all of the key features such as git and multiple compilers plugins, from the first second you use it, you'll leave every other IDE you've ever used also or has plugins marketplace so you can develop or add more plugins you need Cons Some relevant plugins which other IDE have built - in are for sale and not free Review Source Similar Products Featured