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Best IDE Software in 2026

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46 IDE software ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.

46ranked
7free plans on this page
4 Oct 2026last checked

Recognised 40% · Phone app 26% · Documented 20% · Free plan 14% of the score

  1. 26 Positron No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.4Free
  2. 27 Eric No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.4Free
  3. 28 Green Hills MULTI IDE No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.2
  4. 29 CodeLite No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.2Free
  5. 30 Google Cloud Shell Editor No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.2Free
  6. 31 IAR Embedded Workbench No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.0
  7. 32 Code Composer Studio No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.0
  8. 33 Processing No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.0Free
  9. 34 BlueJ No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 6.0Free
  10. 35 GNAT Studio No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.9 Supported languages: Ada, SPARK, C, C++; extensible to other languages via customizationDeployment: desktopMobile development: No
  11. 36 Geany No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.9Free
  12. 37 Lazarus No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.8
  13. 38 Oracle JDeveloper No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.8
  14. 39 PhpStorm No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.5
  15. 40 Thonny No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.4
  16. 41 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.3
  17. 42 Eclipse Che No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.1
  18. 43 LabWindows/CVI No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.1 Supported languages: ANSI CDeployment: desktopMobile development: No
  19. 44 Espressif-IDE No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 5.0 Supported languages: C, C++Deployment: desktopMobile development: No
  20. 45 SwiftForth No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.7 Supported languages: ForthDeployment: desktopMobile development: No
  21. 46 Simply Fortran No phone app RecognisedPhone appDocumentedFree plan 4.6 Supported languages: Assembly, BASIC, C/C++, Fortran, Makefile, Python, DOS/Windows Batch, Lua, HTML, UNIX-like shells, TclDeployment: desktop

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