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IntelliJ IDEA

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 43 - Reviews of IntelliJ IDEA

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Varatharajan G.  
Principal Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "IntelliJ best software IDE ever"

July 23, 2019

5.0

Pros

They have integrations with all plugins in the world. They have best debugging features introduced Can easily connect to databases through this. Superbly awesome theme

Cons

Slow patch updates needs a restart of the IDE everytime,

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PT

Pavan T.  
Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great IDE for APP development"

August 24, 2021

5.0

Pros

Love how many options this tool offers, from web development to mobile apps.

Cons

Very easy to use so there isn’t anything I dislike about this software

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BC

Bhargavi C.  
Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Would highly recommend for programmers starting out in Java. Helped organize code better and faster."

March 13, 2018

4.0

Made my work more seamless.

Pros

Helped me speed up code writing and syntax suggestions were very helpful. Interactive and helped in speeding up code writing.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Full-Stack Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "The best IDE"

August 23, 2018

5.0

Pros

This has been the best code editor that I have used, it is very easy to use and configure, it also offers many features that help the user to be faster.

Cons

I have not had any problems using this editor, I liked everything

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
DevOps Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great Ide"

April 19, 2019

5.0

Pros

I really love ides from IntelliJ Idea. They know how to help developers providing the best tools.

Cons

I can say the price, but generally they offer good discounts to students or open source project, so this is great also

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SN

Shivam N.  
Developer  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "A good tool for development"

October 28, 2022

5.0

Pros

Built-in plugins to enhance codes and are easy to use.

Cons

It lags little in low-end devices. It needs at least 8GB RAM for good performance.

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Bogdan N.  
Software QA Engineer  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Great IDE for Automated tests"

April 3, 2018

5.0

Pros

Great value for price. Easy to configure and use for automated tests. Lean learning curve for new users.

Cons

The plugin library does not offer a large amount of tools to integrate with the IDE. No other cons to add.

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Anish R.  
IT Officer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "IntelliJ IDEA"

May 3, 2019

4.0

Pros

One of the best IDE's when beginning to learn languages like Kotlin. Lot of developer tools inside the program and offers deep insight into code as well.

Cons

Quite bulky for an IDE with feature selection as minimum

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Hashini W.  
Trainee Software Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Good and nice IDE for Java developers"

October 9, 2019

5.0

I use this IDE to develop applications using java frame works

Pros

Provide file structure for java applications when we create a new project. Flexible for spring framework as well.

Cons

This software take some time to launch and open.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
iOS Developer  
Public Relations and Communications  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Best JAVA IDE"

November 1, 2019

4.0

Pros

Having a lot of feature, and easy to get in

Cons

Sometimes it felt like too big and slow. Even though it had many features, I was feeling to go with more focused products of JetBrains.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
CTO  
Media Production  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Amazing IDE for web and mobile development"

January 16, 2019

4.0

Pros

This is a very complete, efficient and feature-rich IDE. It’s aimed at experienced developers who really want to be productive and need to work on large codebases. I especially love the set of tools it provides to refactor code and to be helpful to developers without getting in their way.

Cons

I’m not a fan of its UI, sometimes it feels too bloated and not well integrated with the OS look and feel.

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AS

Attinderpal S.  
Research Assistant  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Best IDE I have used so far."

April 21, 2019

5.0

Pros

The ultimate version has Java EE integration which is very helpful​ in database queries while debugging if you are making an ​end to end connection. It has very good version control.

Cons

Very expensive if you consider the ​ultimate version.

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IA

Ignas A.  
SE  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very powerful"

September 20, 2021

5.0

Pros

Powerful, beautiful and full of quality features

Cons

Price. Also sometimes too laggy and that makes work day less productive

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NG

Nathaniel G.  
Computer Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Java IDE for You"

May 7, 2021

4.0

I have used IntelliJ IDEA to write and test some Java applications that would be used as components in other projects.

Pros

Plenty of great features that make writing and debugging code in Java much easier than other IDE. Allows for full cycle of development as you can run your code from the software itself.

Cons

Since this software is focused on Java this IDE isn't as versatile as other IDE such as Visual Studio. As long as Java is your main language in development then IntelliJ is a good choice.

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SM

Saymon M.  
Software Analyst  
Computer & Network Security  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "IntelliJ Review"

December 1, 2022

5.0

Pros

One of the best IDEs to work with Java. In my opinion it is the best!

Cons

No hassle related solution, exceptional tool!

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Jared H.  
Research Assistant  
Higher Education  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Powerful environment for devs"

November 26, 2018

5.0

Pros

\-Java based -Code analysis works like a charm -Smart & Chain completion are perfect -The language injection is simple and effective

Cons

\-Kind of costly, and the learning curve is a little steep

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BD

Bernard D.  
Project Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Actually powerful"

October 9, 2020

5.0

Dev is easier? it's integrated with all your dev environment and supports loads of features

Pros

I've beenusing Eclipse for years before switching to IntelliJ. I really thought it was just another IDE untill I starded using it and found loads of great features I wouldn't have imagined before that automate and facilitate dev's job

Cons

Well the only disadvantage I could find is that it's not free but it's a small one when you see the time you gain

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Carl H.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Incredible IDE"

February 28, 2019

5.0

Pros

This IDE enabled me to very quickly and easily create small Java applications for personal use and development. It has a range of great features which are now standard within similar software such as intellisense which can greatly help increase your efficiency. IntelliJ allows you to create not only simple console applications but also GUI-based applications using a number of different Java frameworks.

Cons

One of the only downsides to this software is that there is not a free version. However there is a trial and student license.

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BM

Babak M.  
Software Engineer  
Publishing  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Fast and intelligent "

May 20, 2021

5.0

As an overall experience I'm happy using this IDEA.

Pros

It's really fast, using it mostly for Java & Javascript. It offers you a wast amount of plugins for Java development. It does not crash like some other softwares I used to use for Java.

Cons

A bit expensive respect to other same applications. Depends on what you're going to do but some plugins use lots of ram. Specially those I used for AI.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Developer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Best IDE For JAVA developer"

August 26, 2020

5.0

In our organization we use this IDE to develop java based application.This ide help to make fast development and also other feature of this ide like inbuilt server and version control so environment setup is also easy

Pros

This IDE provide lots of good feature but i like auto completion feature of this product.This have inbuilt version control tool and build tool that make easy to build any solution.This also have a inbuilt application server like glassfish etc. This also have a docker facitlity

Cons

overall this product is good ui of this prdoduct is complicated compare to eclipase and another this is not free ide.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Junior Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "The Defacto IDE for Java"

July 21, 2019

5.0

Pros

This is the best IDE for Java development right now. It's full of all the features you could ask for.

Cons

The biggest issue with all the features is that it feels slow and bloated at times. Part of the tradeoff, though.

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PA

Paul A.  
QA engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Best tool for automation"

August 9, 2019

5.0

Pros

I use this tool to create the automation framework at the company and I love all the features and integrations that i can perform with selenium and github

Cons

More documentation about the features that this tool brings

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AS

Akshay S.  
Software Full Stack Developer  
Telecommunications  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "User-friendly and a good option for IDE"

March 3, 2022

4.0

Pros

Easy to complete code with auto fill up feature and the version control feature.

Cons

Takes a lot of CPU memory that makes the system slow.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software Web Developer  
  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "I have used IntelliJ IDEA for my developments in Java and it goes very well, it is a tool with many "

June 1, 2018

4.0

One more tool for powerful JAVA

Pros

\-It integrates very well with java applications. -It has multiple functions that we were seeing in netbeans and eclipse, but now we see it in IntelliJ IDEA improved that facilitate integration, programming, debugging, refactoring, completion of code, maven environment among many more

Cons

It is a bit heavy the IDE and its cost is somewhat high if you need to make a subcription, you need to have a hardware that has enough resources raised so that the ide march well and does not stay hung.

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GG

Gintaras G.  
Software Developer  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Sometimes laggy"

March 14, 2018

4.0

Pros

Easy to use. There are plenty of plugins which will help you develop faster. Design user friendly. My company use it for 5 years.

Cons

It requires huge resources of computer and sometimes it lags or froze and that't the only minus of this software.

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