# Page 19 | IntelliJ IDEA Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 19 - 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 19 - Reviews of IntelliJ IDEA ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 451-475 of 1256 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use PJ Prince J. Software developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Java IDE for beginners and professionals." June 3, 2021 5.0 At PythonStacks , IntelliJ has enabled us to create and deploy android apps written in Kolin and even Flutter apps written in Dart. Pros IntelliJ IDEA is a top class development environment for java programming, not just that. It has a lot of plugins that extends the ide for Android application development, programming in Kotlin, JavaScript and even Dart. Cons IntelliJ consumes a lot of computing power and memory which makes it slower on low performance machines. Review Source RH Robert H. Dbase Admin III Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Coding Collaboration at the highest level!" October 9, 2020 5.0 We are writing code as a team to move data between AWS accounts in a secured, automated fashion for our customers. IntelliJ allows us to see commited code in real time and also seamless integration with bitbucket to check in / check out. Pros Our team can develop many functions and modules in a community fashion and can check in our code directly to bitbucket. Commited changes are seen in real time and provides a rich experience while we develop our software. Cons None worth mentioning, IntelliJ IDEA is the best integrated development environment out there in my experience and will be with our team into the future. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Review for IntelliJ IDEA" December 3, 2019 5.0 Very user friendly IDE which has lots of suppored plugin for developers Pros One of the best IDE. Used this while developing Java and NodeJS project. When it comes to code debugging I mostly prefer IntelliJ IDEA over other IDE. Cons When I open multiple windows in IntelliJ IDEA, It's getting bit slow. Indexing take long time than normal. Better if we can get perfomace improvement on that Review Source FZ Felipe Z. Test & Development Automotive Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "It is awesome, coding is much easier" September 22, 2023 5.0 I love it, I started years ago and thanks to it I can programe so fast. Pros It is awesome knowing that the IDE helps you soo much, it is the key to develop too fast. Really helping me. Cons It is so big, it would need to have a huge knowledge zone. I know I can do anything with it and will help me. Review Source Curtis P. Freelance Web Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Works brilliantly" September 24, 2020 5.0 Makes writing code and automated testing with Rspec and Ruby on Rails a joy! Pros Very easy to use, and makes development really enjoyable. Takes away all of the traditional issues you'd face with testing and debugging software in many other IDEs. RubyMine from the IDEA series works particularly well, with its integration with Ruby on Rails. Cons Because of the way in which IDEA is licensed, you need to license it separately for each language - WebStorm, RubyMine etc - unless you purchase the all products pack. This is slightly frustrating. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer DevOps Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great programming IDE at a not-so-great price" March 5, 2019 4.0 I played with this app for the trial period looking for a good IDE that already had the features I needed built-in (Emacs user here for years at that time); however, ultimately, the price was too tough for my pocket. Luckily, shortly after I learned about Visual Studio Code and since then I never looked back -- but that's another story :) Pros \- Auto-completion and command forecasting in this app is simply outstanding - The everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach ensures you have all the tools you might ever need to code and debug your solution - Extensible via plugins - Great community - Try-before-you-buy app - Customer support is nothing short than excellent Cons \- This app is serious business: if you don't need the capabilities that this software package provides, you'll be better off with another lighter IDE or even a text editor - This software is a LEVIATHAN: it occupies a gigabyte of your storage space (at least on Mac), it needs lots of CPU cycles and it eats your RAM in a way it makes Chrome look like Windows' Notepad - Beware that this company products are on the expensive side Review Source GY Gary Y. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy to learn, great support" August 30, 2018 4.0 I use it as my primary IDE. I've been using it for 4 years and increases my development efficiency a lot after learning the code search shortcuts and refactoring features. Pros Out of the box experience is great. It's very intuitive to configure themes and syntax format I prefer. The plugin repository is also very extensive. Typescript support is great with different refactoring features. Cons If you work on different languages, say frontend is Typescript + HTML + CSS and backend is Java, you'll have to purchase Webstorm and IntelliJ licenses which are quite costly. Typescript has recently improved IDE support in it's native compiler; however, since Webstorm Typescript plugin is built on top of Java, it takes some time to propagate new Typescript language service features to Webstorm. Review Source Laureine Claire N. Manager Farming Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Nous avons utilisé Intellij IDEA pour développer notre application de service " September 21, 2023 5.0 Pros La gestion de versions par IntelliJ IDEA est très utile Cons Les champs applicables ne fonctionne pas bien Review Source Sarath R. Automation Test Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### ""IDE for Software Development as well as selenium developer"" August 20, 2018 5.0 Pros IntelliJ IDEA is one of the good development(Coding part)tool and also free tool. As per my suggestion compare to eclipse this is very good. User friendly, good maven supported, Auto-save, good search function Cons INtelliJ Idea can be a memory hog rarely, Sometimes program is slow to load I recommended mostly support 16 GB ram is good configuration in your PC. Review Source Mohamed M. Undergraduate Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### " The Best IDE for Java Development" January 5, 2019 5.0 The IntelliJ IDEA is a great IDE for Java development which supports cross-platform and requires some features to be added. The error analysis using in-depth coding assistance provided by IntelliJ IDEA is a great feature. It supports multiple frameworks such as Maven, Spring, etc. Which makes the compiling the project easier. Pros It provides in-depth coding assistance and efficient error analysis. The smart completion and chain completion features available in IntelliJ IDEA is great for beginners. And also it detects the duplicates in the code. Further, the built-in developer tools such as Version Built tools and Decompilers makes the developers' life easier. Moreover, to add some more features it is that easy to add a new plugin. At last, it has a nice GUI which makes development enjoyable. Cons It is not as easier to create GUI interface in standalone applications as we create in Netbeans. We should do it by writing some codes. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software engineer Entertainment Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simply the best" January 9, 2023 5.0 Pros Speed, plugins and adaptable to amm your needs Cons Nothing.. Everything is more than great. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Java Software Developer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best IDE for some languages" July 16, 2018 5.0 Pros For me, it is the better IDE for Java and PHP. They created a complete software for developers, and it has a lot of tools for helping us. I recommend it. Cons If I have to say something, I would like a support of Spring into Free Edition. I say this because, for a single developer is expensive in my opinion, but I can understand the effort to create this IDE. Review Source Nikola H. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My favorite!" December 5, 2019 5.0 I am using IntelliJ daily, I have keybindings for everything Pros As a Java developer this IDE is my all-time favorite. I highly suggest the paid version which adds many cool features, but even the community edition is so powerful and pleasing to the eye. Cons This product has no cons. At all. In my opinion if you're a serious java developer you won't ever switch to another IDE. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Web Developer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IntelliJ usability" March 12, 2018 5.0 Pros The usability for this product is excellent. In my time developing in Java, this IDE has been the most useful for me. The ability to easily refactor code has been superbly helpful while developing. I am also a big fan of the different presentation options. I personally love the darcula theme, the code pops from the background and makes it very readable. Review Source charith J. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Use Intellij IDEA for software development" October 23, 2019 5.0 I am a software engineer. I used Intellij IDEA more than 2 years. I started to use this IDE when i was in the university. As a software engineer i can recommend this IDE to all the software development fields. Pros Gives suggestions very quickly when coding. Helps to organize the code. Support for many plugins. Can combine with git easily on terminal. Cons Little bit of complex in user interface. Heavy to run. Review Source Mohan Teja K. Software Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best IDE I have ever used, no questions asked" February 16, 2019 5.0 Pros I have been using this software for the past 3 years and its been a great experience with IntelliJ. It has great features some of which I like the most include smart completion cross-language refactoring, support to a lot of frameworks. Cons Apart from being a bit pricey, I don't see many cons with IntelliJ Idea and this will not keep me away from using it Review Source SD Swapnil D. Android Devloper Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best tool for developers" March 15, 2022 5.0 Pros It gives suggestions for code while typing, it saves the file changes automatically. gives options for debugging the code and many more... Cons It is heavy software but its ok it provide many features. Review Source CE Charles E. Chief Technology Officer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best IDEs I've ever used" June 3, 2021 5.0 It's great. I'd say we had a 10-20 percent bump in efficiency (of our teams not our code) immediately. It's good on the eyes (was early to add dark mode) and is really easy to pick up and run with, especially developers who have used other Java IDEs in the past and can see why they did what they did where they did it. Developers can be incredibly judgmental of other people's code but it's obvious how thoughtful the team there is in their design and usability. Pros So many workflow enhancements! I can use keys on the keyboard to shortcut my way to autocompleting all the things, setting break points, simulating a runtime, doing GitHub integration, etc. Pretty much solves a lot of what the modern development environment requires! And it's pretty, which we don't get with a lot of IDEs out there. I feel like they might be the only IDE team that also has a UX team that has actually spent time in the chair of a software developer! Cons The licensing is a little funny for teams and the way you have to deploy it. Wish that were simpler but it's worth the small amount of pain! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Quality Assurance Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "It is one of the best Java environment for developing and testing softwares" August 6, 2018 4.0 Pros One of the very good things about Intelli J is its auto completion feature. It gives you a list of relevant methods and classes applicable in current context. It constantly learns from you when and how we use which packages and methods. It also list don which classes are accessible form current class. It has easy shortcuts compared to it competitors and suggestions are better as it keeps learning from us. UI is also very good. Cons I did not come across any cons as such. Except that it is memory hungry. Review Source Wajahat T. java developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great development platform for all languages." December 10, 2019 5.0 overall a must try software, i use it daily and now i cant work on any other platform. Pros it supports snippets, it provides wide range of customization, formatting, support for maven / gradle / ant and few others, code looks beautiful, auto saves all your work, provides git version controlling and conflicts resolving features, provides access of terminal / cmd in it, provides many more cool features. give it a try and you will never use any other software for development. Cons sometimes it needs to be restarted to resolve few issues or conflicts, other than that its fantastic. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Full Stack Web Developer Media Production Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Awesome software. One of the last few with perpetual licensing." August 29, 2018 4.0 Pros Jet Brains sells software on subscription, but what I love about it is, unlike Adobe, Microsoft, etc after you've paid for a version, you can keep using the version forever, or you can subscribe again to get updates. The subscription prices are also very reasonable. They also have a Slack channel and have been very responsive anytime I've had an issue. Cons I love their suite of software, but what I don't love is that they almost have too many choices. There's IntelliJ IDEA, what feels like the main piece of software which is tailored primarily for Java development, then there's Ruby Mine for Ruby development. But you can also do Ruby development in IntelliJ. I think ideally I'd love to see one piece of software that does ever language very well (thinking back to my days of using Visual Studio). The other option would be completely separate pieces of software for each language, but a very similar, intuitive feel between them. Having multiple options though for one language is just confusing. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Android Developer Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Only IDE I will use" August 28, 2018 5.0 Pros I love this IDE. Never thought I could love software so much but this tool is amazing. Its constantly at the bleeding edge of predictive development. It is super fast, stable, and has so many shortcuts to speed up the development process. Cons Not a con, but they should really think about using AI to learn context better for their predictive tools. Review Source Ashish V. UX Designer Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Necessity for the backend integration " November 15, 2018 5.0 Necessity for full stack developers and devs. Pros Some of the most liked features are - Easy Debugging, Efficient Version control, Environement configuration, and adding multiple libraries and plugins. Cons It is bit complex setup, bit expensive to get the license for personal use, limited number of themes, absence of code beautifiers and download size is huge. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Research Assistant Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "I am a senior year computer science and engineering student, and I have to say, IntelliJ is amazing." July 14, 2018 5.0 Helped me through the steep learning curve associated with Nodejs, CouchDB, Cordova, IOT devices. Java application programming by offering boiler plate code and auto completion along with useful suggestions that pop up for every line of code. Pros As a person who started out without being savvy with NodeJS or Web Development in general, IntelliJ really helps you out by giving you boilerplate code that you can modify and learn. In my case, I worked with the default jade engine for websites and learnt quite a lot in the process. I moved onto angular, and it was still quite helpful. The biggest help even for a seasoned programmer is the fact that you can installed any missing modules instantly when the compiler finds out it could be missing. As a student, we also get a free trial for a year, with all the features we could need. So why are you waiting, go and download this to really pimp out your coding rig. Cons This software runs a bit too slowly on older devices, I would recommend at least 8 Gb Ram, an SSD and i5+ for optimal performance. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Automation Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazing IDE for development" December 5, 2020 5.0 Installing plugin and dependencies are easy which makes development easy ,fun and smooth Pros This IDE provides me great platform for Java development. This is very convenient to write the code, find the syntax, do the aligning and build it very easily Cons Best part of this IDE, all the dependencies are very easy to download. Which helps in saving time in development. Review Source