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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) EiffelStudio ## What is EiffelStudio? The EiffelStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides a comprehensive, cost-effective suite of tools for developers focused on quality software, enabling them to control the development process and produce correct, reliable, and maintainable systems through the widely praised techniques of Design by Contract. Eiffel Software, a pioneer of object technology since 1985, has crafted EiffelStudio to address the quality and productivity challenges of todays IT industry. ## What is EiffelStudio used for? [Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 14 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price $175 One Time Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for EiffelStudio?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=http://www.eiffel.com&name=EiffelStudio) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### EiffelStudio 4.4 (14) VS. [4.4 (15,339)](https://www.capterra.com/p/19319/JIRA/reviews/) Starting Price $175 One Time Starting Price $7.91 Per User, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.4 (14) Ease Of Use 4.1 (6,144) Value For Money 4.6 (12) Value For Money 4.3 (4,380) Customer Service 4.5 (14) Customer Service 4.2 (4,040) ## EiffelStudio alternatives Highest Rated [GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/) [4.8 (6,163)](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/reviews/) Starting price $4.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 98% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/) [Essential Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/228226/Essential-Studio/) [4.5 (917)](https://www.capterra.com/p/228226/Essential-Studio/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 94% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/228226/Essential-Studio/) [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://www.capterra.com/p/80230/microsoft-visual-studio/) [4.6 (3,005)](https://www.capterra.com/p/80230/microsoft-visual-studio/reviews/) Starting price $499.92 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 97% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/80230/microsoft-visual-studio/) [IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/) [4.7 (1,256)](https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/reviews/) Starting price $19.90 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 98% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/136010/IntelliJ-IDEA/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/32278/EiffelStudio/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. API 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Change Management 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions Data Modeling 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Conceptual model of how data items relate to each other Debugging 5.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Detect and remove errors Document Management 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location Graphical User Interface 4.0 (1) 100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important A visual way of interacting with an application or operating system using items such as windows, icons, and menus EiffelStudio 13 features Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Track and monitor efficient handling of all changes/transitions Preview how the app will display on multiple device types and operating systems Import and export data to and from software applications Conceptual model of how data items relate to each other Detect and remove errors Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location A visual way of interacting with an application or operating system using items such as windows, icons, and menus An application for source code editing, compiling, and debugging View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data Development of software programs Development of applications that are delivered over the internet through a browser Features 4.5 (14) 4.5 Based on 14 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.6 (12) Free Trial Free Version Basic $175.00 One Time Value for money 4.6 (12) 4.6 Based on 12 reviews ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.5 (14) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.5 (14) 4.5 Based on 14 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.4 Based on 14 reviews Filter by rating 5(6) 4(8) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent JS jacques s. direction Government Administration ### "Eiffel, la programmation par contrat formel" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 March 27, 2026 10 ans de développement en Eiffel. Eiffel est le seul langage permettant une modélisation du réel grâce au multiple héritage. Eiffel permet de définir des classes (base des objets) munies d'une spécification formelle pour toute routine. C'est enfin un langage/méthode pour ingénieur. Pros Seul outil de développement spécifique à la méthode Eiffel. Eiffel, c'est la programmation par contrat ; donc des composants réutilisables sérieusement fondés sur une spécification formelle. Cons Le manque de partenaires. Si cette méthode était plus connue, nous pourrions avoir plus de librairies et, au final, un peu plus de logiciel grand public qui tiennent la route. Switched from [VaxManager](https://www.capterra.com/p/230997/VaxManager/) J'ai Quitté Digital Equipment (DEC) et les développements sur VAX Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Educational Consultant E-Learning ### "EiffelStudio IDE" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 21, 2018 Pros Integrates all phases of software development: analysis, design, development, testing, verification. It makes the programming in Eiffel experience smooth and enjoyable. It has some very cool features like the verification that certain software properties hold. Cons It's monolithic, not modular, and linked to one compiler. It does not appear to have a plugin architecture. Updates are not incremental. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. VA Volkan A. Senior Software Engineer Textiles ### ""State of the art" software development environment" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 20, 2018 Eiffel is the right language and EiffelStudio the right IDE (integrated development environment) if you want to develop state of the art, reliable and correct software systems. Pros \- "State of the art" programming technology in the area of "Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Programming languages" - Supports advanced technologies such as: Design by Contract, High-level concurrency, Void-Safety - Thanks to s Design by Contract and the AutoTest feature of EiffelStudio advanced manual, semi-automatic and automatic software testing possible - Browsing feature of EiffelStudio is excellent and to my knowledge non-existant in any other language and Development Environment - Seamless development (Business Object Notation BON) and and round-trip engineering is supported quite good (analysis, desing, implementation) - Very elegant and reliable reusable compoments (libraries) Cons Support of some platform-specific technologies such as UWP of Windows 10 Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Hubert C. Lead Software Developer, Owner at Fury Software Computer Games ### "Game Development with EiffelStudio" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 17, 2018 Pros Incredibly clean/logical language design, garbage collection, true multiple inheritance, object oriented with Design by Contract has allowed me to develop with Eiffelstudio since 1999 with relative speed and ease. With a comparable execution speed to a similar project implemented in C, there really hasn't been any downsides to using Eiffelstudio for game development over the years. Cons Limited 3rd party libraries and especially game development libraries can slow things down from time to time. However with the recent additions of SDL library wrappers in the open source community, accelerated 2D and 3D development is now a very nice option when using Eiffelstudio. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Paul G. Team lead software ontwikkeling Banking ### "EiffelStudio your pal and lifesaver" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 17, 2018 We are using it in a company for the processing of financial transactions where we heavily rely on the internet. With the use of the Eiffel Web framework and the outstanding support of Eiffel software we have been able to make our vision become true. Each year there are two updates of EiffelStudio. While the Eiffel team is not as huge as compared with other big companies or communities, they still are able to add highly sophisticated techniques into the EiffelStudio environment coming from their academic sources, think about void safeness and SCOOP. I also use Eiffel for my own framework, based on interesting theories about event driven architectures. So if you are in for a real understanding of software and not afraid of a higher level of thinking, this environment is great and you will live with the flaws that are always there in any environment. Pros The tool is always helping you to create results very quickly. We always say, 'The compiler is your friend' and that really counts for the Eiffel compiler. I can state from experience, that if the software is compiled it runs, very stable and robust, while the software always benefits from the high quality Eiffel architecture and underlying method, which are integrated in this tool. When you think in ideas which were described in the book Object Oriented Software Construction, in my opinion Eiffel and EiffelStudio is the only one environment that is able to meet those standards. I worked with a lot of other tools and languages, like Visual C++, Visual Studio C#/.NET, Borland Delphi, VisualStudio Code with TypeScript, SCADE with Swift, compared with those environments I find EiffelStudio stand out, to be able to create high quality software with which it is easier, compared to other ones, to create reusable and extendable software components or even frameworks. Always remember, that even in environments with the highest demands EiffelStudio is a lifesafer, people who have been there know what I mean. Cons It seems to be a bit off, regarding to modern tooling, to support the modern software development process. No integration with version management. While focusing on reusability and extendability, there is also no support for configuration management. This a a daunting task to deal with in the real world of containerized applications, having a lot of small software products running in a solution and managing this from a software perspective. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. EB Eric B. Senior Programmer Banking ### "Great tool" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 14, 2018 Pros Browsing facilities Incremental compilation Cons Compilation could be made faster Refactoring facilities need to be extended. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. LP Luca P. Software engineer Computer Software ### "ES" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 14, 2018 Pros Clean and lean IDE. I like its performance and features. Cons Annoying in the code editor which loses focus while editing after "consuting intellisense code hints" Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. JO Jonathan O. Professor Higher Education ### "Eiffel is an excellent programming language and also a software design language" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 September 14, 2018 I am a professor at a university and use the Eiffel method to teach software design at the senior level Pros Good for implementation and design Design by Contract Elegant multiple inheritance Agents and functional programming constructs BON/UML diagrams Efficient Code Cons Lack of some libraries Lack of some documentation Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RO Roger O. Consultant Information Technology and Services ### "EiffelStudio 8.7" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 September 13, 2018 EiffelStudio supports the Eiffel language and environment, but goes well beyond that, and sometimes it helps for us users to step back and think about it (as this review is causing me to do). EiffelStudio supports the Eiffel model of software development (that model is independent of, but supported by the Eiffel language). It's easy to use, but achieves that easiness without compromising its richness. Real object-oriented design involves rich structures and relationships. Too many IDEs offer little more than syntax coloring; neither promoting good practices nor supporting its practitioners. This is where EiffelStudio sets itself apart from other language tools and IDEs. Some might argue that its support of Eiffel dictates its functionality, and that is true to an extent, but one need only look at how poorly other tools support the practices and expressiveness of the languages they support to see that EiffelStudio sets the bar a lot higher. I cannot always get to use Eiffel for the products I build, but I always think first in Eiffel, and use EiffelStudio to model the problem, and the solution, whether it's a trivial app for my own amusement, or large-scale commercial work. With Eiffel and EiffelStudio, I have the luxury of working at the model level, checking my assumptions, implementing my logic and assertions, and compiling the whole lot into a working application. The net savings in time, and errors, more than makes up for any up-front investment. Pros What I like most, and have grown to rely on, is EiffelStudio's support for the full breadth of object-oriented development, from modelling to compilation to debugging. The IDE is easy enough for newbies, and rich enough for long-time users like myself. It lets me work with a system, and the Eiffel environment, the way that I think, without making me dumb-down the model to fit the tool. Cons That's a tough one, but because I am required to say something, I'd say that I'd prefer to see a more obvious choice of concurrency models (the default is SCOOP; great model, but not necessary for a lot of simple experiments). Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Gerrit L. Senior IT-Consultant Computer Software ### "old powerhouse" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 September 13, 2018 The CLI compiler is second best to none. ECF file configuration frontend. Pros incremental compilation is saving lots of time and is working most of the time. Cons Autotest is sometimes broken. Missing GUI builder. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/32278/EiffelStudio/reviews/) Independent research methodology Capterra's researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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