A hand-checked shortlist of the most widely used IDEs for building software across desktop, mobile, embedded, web and cloud platforms — every link below is verified live.
Editors built to handle several languages and project types out of the box.
Microsoft's flagship IDE for building applications across Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, web and cloud, with deep .NET, C++ and AI-assisted coding support.
Visit official site →A long-standing favorite for Java development, extensible to almost any language through its plug-and-play architecture and rich plugin ecosystem.
Visit official site →Maker of IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion and more — an essential toolset covering nearly every major programming language and framework.
Visit official site →A development environment, tooling platform and application framework in one — with first-class support for Java, PHP and HTML5.
Visit official site →A free, extensible IDE for C, C++ and Fortran, built around a plugin framework so functionality can be added exactly where you need it.
Visit official site →Now open source, Komodo covers Python, PHP, Perl, Go and Ruby with a powerful editor, visual debugger and version-control integrations.
Visit official site →Purpose-built environments for a specific OS, device or ecosystem.
Google's official IDE for Android, built on IntelliJ, now with Gemini-powered coding assistance, emulators and a Gradle-based build system.
Visit official site →Apple's IDE for building, testing and shipping apps across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS, with previews, simulators and Xcode Cloud CI/CD.
Visit official site →Code, upload and manage sketches for Arduino boards from a lightweight editor, with a companion cloud editor for coding from any browser.
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