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Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/alternatives/) # Code::Blocks Review Custom quote Free version Free trial 1 plan On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Code::Blocks 4.3 [(47)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/reviews/) Pricing Pricing available upon request Top Alternatives ### About Code::Blocks Code::Blocks is an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables developers to create, launch and handle coding operations for C++, C and Fortran languages. The platform allows organizations to design and store custom templates in a centralized repository and update notes on projects for reference. Code::Blocks includes multi-platform capabilities, which allow users to develop, compile, test and debug multiple source codes on Mac, Linux and Windows operating systems. It offers a variety of features such as audit trail, custom abbreviations, auto versioning, automated code completion, syntax highlighting, modification tracking, to-do lists and more. Additionally, coding professionals can maintain logs to store error reports, search results, compiler messages and other data. Code::Blocks supports integration with various third-party plugins to embed new features and extend functionalities of the application. It is available for free and support is provided via FAQs and documentation. ## Code::Blocks User Interface ## Popular Code::Blocks Alternatives Main Product Code::Blocks 4.3 [(47)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.13Ease of use - 4.62Value for money - 3.66Customer support - 4.06Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [GitLab](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/gitlab-profile/) 4.6 [(1227)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/gitlab-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.37Ease of use - 4.48Value for money - 4.20Customer support - 4.57Functionality Pricing Starting at $29.00 per month Alternative Product [Essential Studio](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/essential-studio-profile/) 4.5 [(946)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/essential-studio-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.33Ease of use - 4.56Value for money - 4.68Customer support - 4.60Functionality Pricing Available upon request Alternative Product [GitHub](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/github-profile/) 4.8 [(6204)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/github-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.41Ease of use - 4.63Value for money - 4.34Customer support - 4.66Functionality Pricing Starting at $4.00 per month Alternative Product [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/410128-microsoft-visual-studio/) 4.6 [(3013)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/410128-microsoft-visual-studio/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.30Ease of use - 4.41Value for money - 4.21Customer support - 4.63Functionality Pricing Starting at $45.00 per month Alternative Product [IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/intellij-idea-profile/) 4.7 [(1260)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/intellij-idea-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.47Ease of use - 4.46Value for money - 4.33Customer support - 4.73Functionality Pricing Starting at $19.90 per month ## Code::Blocks Pricing and Plans Starting price: Pricing available upon request Free Trial Free Version Basic Pricing available upon request No plan information available ## Code::Blocks Features - Popular features found in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Code Development Code Editing Debugging Deployment Management - More features of Code::Blocks Access Controls/Permissions API Collaboration Tools Compatibility Testing Custom Development Data Import/Export Data Modeling For Developers Graphical User Interface Integrated Development Environment Mobile Development Pre-built Templates Reporting/Analytics Software Development Third-Party Integrations Version Control Web App Development ## Code::Blocks User Reviews ## Code::Blocks customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.3/5 - Total reviews: 47 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 20 reviews (43%) - 4 stars: 21 reviews (45%) - 3 stars: 5 reviews (11%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Customer support: 3.7/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 --- ### Review of Code::Blocks - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vaibhav S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Lightweight Software for the Beginners to learn Coding. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Code::Blocks is a free and open-source cross-platform application that may be used on platforms such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. It is simple to use and does not necessitate the usage of a high-end Computer or laptop. It also contains error monitoring and automatic indentation, which are useful tools that assist customers through their work by alerting them to where they have committed an error. Code::Blocks is an excellent tool for beginners in programming. #### Cons Sometimes the software becomes laggy and can be glitch --- ### Great Code Editor - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Keith T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I only recently started using Code::Blocks, but it is good so far. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like that it is similar to previous code editors, so I am familiar with how it works. #### Cons There isn't much of a community that uses Code::Blocks, so getting help can be difficult --- ### Well thought out, needs improvements - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Jonathan V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Code::Blocks has done the job it is required to done quite nicely. However some functionality I feel is required for an IDE I feel is missing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Code::Blocks is easy to install and easy to use. Code::Blocks simplifies the workspace, especially for beginners, this is a pro. But for more advanced programmers, there seem to be essential functionality missing. #### Cons Code::Blocks could be improved if it had extension created by users, for the needed functionality that is required for modern programmers. Code::Blocks looks out dated and a new interface would be refreshing. Code::Blocks does not have an up-to-date linter to highlight wrong code and suggest most relevant code. --- ### Code::Blocks Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mirza Č. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I personally used Code::Blocks for years and I am still using it. I found it really interesting and easy to use for all programming and coding rookies, which was one of my part time jobs ( teaching beginners programming). Overall, I only have the best experience with it and I highly recommend this open-source IDE. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros For all people out there who are new to programming, Code::Blocks is an open source cross-platform they should use. It runs in many different computer languages with really fast GNU GCC compiler and the best thing is that it's free to download for all users and it can be used on systems like Windows, Linux and Mac-OS . The platform is really easy and flexible to use, even with not much computer knowledge you will be able to use it, which is really great for one open-source IDE. One of the best things with this IDE is that it does not require PC or Laptop with high specification, it can basically run on anything these days. One of my favorite things are error tracing and syntax highlighting. Error tracing and syntax highlighting are really important and they help trough your work by warning you where your mistake is or might be in a line of code. I can say for shore that I am pleased with Code::Blocks and all functions it has to offer. #### Cons Code::Blocks is getting improved every day, but still there are some thing that should be improved much faster. One of those things is a "Darkmode" which is really helpful when you are sitting in front of a computer for hours and you want to rest your eyes from all that screen brightness. There is also a fact that you have to install correct and certain version of compiler with GNU GCC or else the program won't work, but that is not that much of a problem if you know what are you doing. Everything else to me is just perfect, the platform should full-fill your needs and expectations especially if you are a rookie in a computer world, world of codes and programs.. --- ### Review on Code::Blocks - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anchal J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall I would suggest everyone to use codeblocks for developing especially beginners who want to develop C and C++ programs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Code Blocks is an open sourced software and ideal for beginners. Every programmer/developer should use this amazing software as it has so many features that will help you with accuracy. #### Cons This software has a little slow startup and as it is an ide it has many features which can be confusing. --- ### Code Blocks Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sivaranjani S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Really awesome experience with this tool. It's hard to find something that I dislike in code blocks. Really satisfied. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Its very easy to use. Great for beginners. It will Highlight the errors and syntax.Great for developing C and C++.It supports multiple compilers but I personally used it for C and C++. Its easy to debug.The code suggestion feature is very useful. #### Cons Sometimes its loading for a long time.They can still improve the UI .The here are lot of features in code blocks but it's hard to learn about all those features. While handling some projects it's difficult to search for the options and most people don't have the knowledge of the options available. --- ### Code::Blocks Experience - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The overall experience was very good , used it write my c and c++ programs . Very helpful. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 1. Best for c and c++ coding 2. Easy to install and setup for c or c++ compiler 3. Available for windows , linux and mac 4. Auto complete helps so much in coding 5. Video available online to learn 6. Shortcuts available to build and compile the code #### Cons 1. The UI can be improved 2. Provide options for more customizations 3. Need to familiar with the IDE --- ### The best software to start programming - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andres I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Code::Blocks is a really good begginer software, as it is free I would highly recommend it for schools for the first programming courses. The teacher would need to know the software before in order to be a good guide. While it doesn't provides a navigation tutorial, after exploring it a little bit you will see everything it has to offer. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Code::Blocks is a really good and free software that is perfect to use as an IDE for C and C++ languages, 2 languages that are widely considered some of the best options to start learning code, this is why is, for me, one of the best softwares to start learning programming. #### Cons The only bad thing is that isn't the best option to do more advanced tasks like data processing, so when you pass the learning stage you will need to adquire another software for your programming tasks. Also the interface isn´t the most modern one. --- ### An open source integrated development environment for C, C++, and many other programming languages - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Saad Ahmed K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It is a superb IDE which is free, easy, and reliable. This software is a masterpiece and every beginner should start its programming journey from this software. Moreover, it is also useful for professionals because it includes all the functionalities required for advance software development. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros This was the first integrated development environment (IDE) which I started using during my engineering studies and since then I have developed several academic as well as professional software using this IDE. It is Old and truly a gold. It a complete suite that can write, compile, debug, and run the program in several classical programming languages. #### Cons It is difficult to point out something that I dislike about this software because it is too good. However, if they include several other programming languages like Python, Go, and Java by default in their IDE so that can make it more useful. --- ### IDE for C++ programs - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ayodeji O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I learnt programming in C++ using code blocks. Throughout the journey with code blocks, it has been great though the user interface was discouraging especially for a beginner coder like me as at then, but my passion and exciting tutorials helped me to push through the challenges. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is free and open source so there are numerous resources available online to help beginners push through the challenges. Code Blocks has the capability to edit, debug and compile C or C++ codes and most importantly, It runs smoothly on average pc, so you don't need to worry about getting an high end pc to be able to use it. #### Cons The user interface is not really the best for an IDE . An update in the ui and ux would be nice. Apart from this, I don't have any problem using code blocks. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 47 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/reviews/) ## Code::Blocks Popular Comparisons [Essential Studio vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/vs/essential-studio/)[GitHub vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/vs/github/)[Microsoft Visual Studio vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/compare/117684-code-blocks/vs/410128-microsoft-visual-studio/)[IntelliJ IDEA vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/vs/intellij-idea/)[Jira vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/atlassian-jira-profile/vs/code-blocks/)[Apache NetBeans vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/apache-netbeans-profile/vs/code-blocks/)[Sublime Text vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/vs/sublime-text/)[Notepad++ vs Code::Blocks](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/vs/notepad/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/code-blocks-profile/alternatives/) ## See what companies are saying about Software Advice