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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/codepen-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/app-development/codepen-profile/alternatives/) # CodePen User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 23 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.7/5 - Customer support: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.2/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 14 reviews (61%) - 4 stars: 8 reviews (35%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (4%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It's an amazing hub for collaboration, creative ideas, and skill training. - it is definitely its graphical interface, how intuitive it is, you like to use it. ### Most mentioned cons - Looking at the interface for the first time can be somewhat daunting. ## CodePen customer reviews Showing reviews 1-23 of 23 (page 1). ### Best light-weight code editor for anyone who likes to code. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Abrar K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Market Research - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been using this tool to showcase my skills and try out small codes. The animations and other designing features are great in this application. It is online and everything is stored on cloud, making it easier to access from any device all around the world. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The interface is very good and the application is fast. There are many features to help in coding and many programming languages to choose. We can display our code snippets in the form of pens and make it available for everyone to view it. It is the best platform to showcase one's skills. We can even checkout other user's pens or snippets and can fork it for ourselves. #### Cons Although this application have lots of features but it lacks many which other competitors have. The auto-code completion is poor as the code library is not vast. It is only useful for small one page projects and can not handle very large projects. #### Reasons for switching to CodePen The tool is simple and does not have many features. It does not have intelliSense for auto-code completion. It is offline and does not have a cloud storage. --- ### the best ally to get started in coding - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Code Pen was an extraordinary tool, I would say almost fundamental during my learning process as a developer, it seems to me that it is the best product for someone who is just starting out, or at least for me it was. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros it is definitely its graphical interface, how intuitive it is, you like to use it. For students who are just starting out, the use of a tool like Code Pen is great. #### Cons I use it as a user and in free versions, because in my opinion its scalability for projects due to the limited one is with the languages ​​is decisive according to the type of project. Ideal for web development use, not so for other tools #### Reasons for switching to CodePen I made the change mainly because Visual Studio for a beginner is a bit complex to use and its graphical interface is very limited, but the determining factor was that Code Pen, due to its way of being distributed, helped me to better understand the principles of web development. --- ### For showcasing your small snippets it is good. More like a social ground for developers to showcase - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Khan Nida Khanum A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall , sine the community for codepen is huge. It is a great social platform tool to showcase your code like amazing animations. Most users share and showcase their animation snippet through codepen. For larger projects other tools like codesanbox can be used. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Good for showcasing small code snippets as the community for codepen is very large compared to other tools like codesandbox. Minimal configuration to start with. #### Cons Very limited feature for codepen projects. More features are available in paid version. Also, intellisense is not great in codepen. Other tools like codesanbox provides better features and intellisense for larger projects. --- ### Amazing Intergrated development environment for creative ideas and collaboration - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joël T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Codepen is a great option for rapid online coding. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Codepen is my number online app dev alternative of all time. It's just one Google search away and is fast and responsive.It's also free and has a beginner-friendly GUI. It offers the possibility to open up to 3 tabs at the same time; this is great as it endorses an easy workflow and boosts productivity rates. This software enables me to work on personal as well as collaborative projects. It's an amazing hub for collaboration, creative ideas, and skill training.I get in touch with various developers around the world and I also get to discover their skills and work- it's simply fun. #### Cons One weird thing with code pen is how complex it seems sometimes. It wasn't easy for me to be able to locate some features (like, where to insert the header tags ) in the app as they seem hidden. #### Reasons for switching to CodePen It's a little too simple and purpose-oriented --- ### Handy tool for testing, debugging and sharing - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Defense & Space - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall it's a great little tool that I've used over the years to test and build basic html/js/css code, I have found it easy to share with others and allows you to teach and demonstrate code in real time. It's also saved me a lot of time to just test small code snippets quickly to see if it's something viable to use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Codepen is a cool tool that let's you test and edit in real time your html, js and css code. It's really handy for debugging and proving out small snippets of code. It's also handy for sharing and demonstrating code to others. #### Cons It has some limitations, anything large scale it isn't exactly suited for, you can't run stuff in it like a full staging environment but it does support mid sized projects. It also doesn't support running php script. --- ### Great and amazing code-sharing platform - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Krinal J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is easy to use and save the code. We can easily build, edit and take a look of the live preview of the output. We can easily use CodePen without installing any code-editor. Also, we can manage and edit the code easily on the cloud. #### Cons All the features are not provided in free version and pricing of pro version of CodePen is higher as compared to other alternatives. So, they should try to give some affordable pricing for pro-version. --- ### Ultimate tool for developers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aliaksandr B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. First of all, CodePen is a unique tool for developers. You don`t need to configure the local server for development. Just create your account or sign in and that`s all. CodePen is a simple and great. What I`ve like the most: it doesn`t matter what is the length of your code. The animations, scripts are works great. Also you can work with this software from any device, because all of your projects are hosted on cloud. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros You can create your projects for free, UI is great and clean, must have tool for developers #### Cons I totally happy with CodePen. Can`t say anything negative about it. --- ### Best for front-end development - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Codepen is amazing to use unless you have to code in any other language rather than HTML, CSS and Javascript. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Excellent and easy to use user interface. I would highly recommend this for front-end development and sharing your code through a single link. Best thing about CodePen is one can view the output at real time while editing the code. #### Cons It has only 3 languages available i.e HTML, CSS and Javascript and another thing I don't like is that it does not have the feature of live collaboration. --- ### Web-Based Front End Development - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Christopher E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. CodePen is a great place to learn and work on coding web-based and front-end projects. The challenges are fun and engaging and the community is very supportive. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros CodePen is an excellent web-based IDE for web and front-end development. The site supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more. One of the best features is the challenges. Every month the community completes themed challenges to hone the skills. This is a great way to practice and learn more about how the code works. CodePen is also the preferred IDE of freeCodeCamp. #### Cons The only issue I have is the interface has a bit of a learning curve. Looking at the interface for the first time can be somewhat daunting. It also does not do well on smaller screens. The interface takes up a lot of screen real estate and it is not always conducive. --- ### Live Code Editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shan S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros CodePen is a great tool for front-end developers to test out their code on the fly and share it with others. CodePen can be used to create code snippets and test them on the fly and share them with others. Mostly, the use-case is to embed the code on the website. It's a pretty useful and solid tool. Not only that you can search other developers' code like CSS animations, JavaScript techniques, and much more. Highly Recommended #### Cons It's a great tool, no complaints so far. The feature they can introduce is the beauty code snippets. --- ### Superbe outil de partage de code entre passionnés - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros CodePen est un excellent outil pour partager du code avec d'autres utilisateurs sans aucune prise de tête et de façon organisée. C'est très agréable de visualiser à la fois le rendu, le code html, le code css et le code JS and un même espace. #### Cons Je n'ai pas de point spécifique à reprocher à CodePen, seule l'utilisation sur mobile est délicate mais c'est davantage du à la taille de l'écran qu'au site lui-même. --- ### CodePen ottimo sito web per trovare progetti per il propio sito web - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: giorgia b. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered La mia esperienza con CodePen è completamente positiva, se potessi dare più stelle ne darei, rimane il sito web migliore in assoluto per trovare ogni tipo di progetto di altri utenti perfetto veramente #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Uso CodePen da anni ormai, mi piace molto la possibilita di vedere progetti di altri utenti, mi è piaciuto molto il fatto che CodePen ti consenta di vedere in tempo reale il progetto scritto in vari linguaggi, molto bella la grafica, grazie a CodePen sono riuscita a prendere grandi progetti da implementare nel mio sito web. Ho apprezzato molto il fatto che quando esporti il progetto rimane salvato ogni file JS e CSS in 2 cartelle separate ottimo. Anche la possibilità di modificare il codice HTML direttamente dal sito web perfetto #### Cons Quello che mi è piaciuto di meno di CodePen è che avevo esportato un progetto di un utente che mi piaceva moltissimo, quando l'ho esportato ho aperta il file HTML non funzionava il non riconoscendo i file scritti in javascript, quando in CodePen in preview caricava tutto alla perfezione da risolvere --- ### CodePen miglior modo per mpstrare i propi progetti - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Fabrizio M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. La mia esperienza con CodePen è de tutto positiva lo utilizzo da anni ormai è fondamentalmente per chi lavora nell'ambito di webdevolper, il sito è veloce è fluido anche visitato mobile quindi continuate così 👍👍👍 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros CodePen mi piace molto perchè posso condividere progetti con altri utenti, passo ore a vedere progetti veramente perfetti creati con css3 e javascript da parte di altri utenti, la cosa che mi piace molto è che permette l'esportazione completa in un file zip dove ti trovi il file .html con tutte le relative cartelle .js .css, io trovo questo sito veramente utile per implementazione direttamente nel sito in progettazione è implementare il codice grazie ha utenti che mettono impegno per condividere i loro progetti con altri. Mi piace molto l'anteprima dei progetti anche se molto pesanti per un sito web per la riproduzione, CodePen lo apre e riproduce il progetto perfettamente senza blocchi, penso che CodePen sia indispensabile per i webdevolper che progettano siti web scrivendosi come me, codici html e js per creare un sito web da solo senza aiuto di piattaforme più note. Che dire io lo uso da anni rimane sempre il numero 1 dei reposity html, il sito rimane sempre sicuro e affidabile, i complimenti davvero hai creatori continuante così 👍👍👍👍 #### Cons Allora di persè CodePen non presenta alcun errore che non permette l'utilizzo e la visualizzazione dei progetti, una cosa che dovreste migliorare che personalmente non mi è piaciutà è il fatto che, quando trovo un progetto che mi piace lo apro in CodePen viene aperto correttamente con tutte le varie librerie js, css, js, quando lo esporti e lo estrai sul pc in locale presenta errori con la visualizzazione, quindi quando succede c'ho devo riaprire il progetto che mi è piaciuto è vedere dove è l'errore che non permette la visualizzazione corretta in locale sul PC, nell'esportazione del progetto non viene mostrato alcune volte il link https://sitoweb.com/image/image.png, l'immagine risulta non trovata in locale, con tasto destro, ispeziona elemento, non trova il file o nei casi più gravi non trova le librerie di javascript è quindi non visualizza correttamente il progetto esportato. Dovreste migliorare su questo aspetto è impedire che quando un utente crea un progetto, inserisce un'immagine o un link rimandande a un hosting di assicurarsi che sia presente, perchè poi presenta errori in locale --- ### Buen editor de codigo online - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Muy buena, en general lo utilizo para crear proyectos siemples con JS. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Puedes crear nuevo codigo de forma rapida y eficiente y te permite compartir tu codigo. #### Cons Algunas veces la ejecuta del codigo tiene algunas fallas o se hace lenta el mostrar el resultado final. --- ### My Opinion - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: barun b. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Awesome editor with live preview result. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Awesome online code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript . I like its Live preview result. #### Cons Nothing negative about this editor. But can be added free pro version. #### Reasons for choosing CodePen because it is online editor and it's live preview. #### Reasons for switching to CodePen Html Live preview result. --- ### Easy and FREE! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Aakash P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It always works well and allows me to quickly test small pieces of code on multiple devices. The free features are really useful #### Cons I wish you would be able to pause the auto-running/updating functionality whilst writing code in a CodePen. It can be quite annoying and disruptive sometimes --- ### Amazing light-weight code editor. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ashok B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It have very user-friendly interface. It provides live preview results for the ones who are using or editing someones code online. It allows users to showcase there skills by displaying the code snippets in the form of pens. It has a large community. Also, the platform provides good storage space. #### Cons The only drawback using this tool is that we cannot use it in the offline mode. --- ### Perfect Tool For front-end developer - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sami A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I faced some difficulty in the beginning because the program does not support a back-end programming language. But using it for a period of time I saw that the program was designed in a good way to make it easier for us to create a front-end layouts. I worked on a personal page and another page for electronic payment. Finally, looking at other screens to see the changes made me suffer but using this program helped me to avoid this. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros What I liked is the mechanism for displaying consistent HTML, CSS and JavaScript codes next to each other on one page with the ability to view added modifications immediately. This is very cool if we are using large displays. It facilitates the process of navigating between the code files and the website to find out the details of whether they are good or not. #### Cons I didn't like that I constantly need the Internet to continue working. I thought this was an app I could download to work on if internet wasn't available. I face a delay in displaying interface layout when I work with large files. --- ### The versatile tool for Frontend Developing - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Roja S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Code pen user interface is amazing and it's performance also. Good.Mos t important thing is s no need to download bundle of softwares ...can use all html,css,Java script in online.Also it's allow copy pasting. #### Cons It's sometimes get lac ...while working large files. --- ### Most convenient IDE for me - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sadık Oktay B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros CodePen is the easiest to adopt IDE for application development, you can easily start coding and organize your work. #### Cons everything is quite fine so far, I haven't experinced any issues that worth to mention here. --- ### Is very reliable - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kartheek V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like that you can share just parts of the code, as opposed to the full thing each time . The platform gives you a lot of storage room and running commands through the console is simple and smooth . #### Cons You can't work on it offline . The interface is outdated and can be confusing when you are starting out . The community is still growing and it can take a while for you to receive the help you need . --- ### A good tool for developer - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Alberto S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience is good, not really easy to use for a junior developer like me but very helpful in some occasions #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros That you can find many useful codes done by people and you can easily see the output of your code, we used it to learn as a backboard #### Cons That there are no suggestions to complete the code, see VSCode as example, for junior devs like me could be a little hard to find errors --- ### Great for both experiments and for actual work . - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: John M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like that the app allows you to select whether to test the whole code or just parts of it ( which you determine ) . #### Cons You can't use it offline . A lot of the error messages and unclear and do not really let you know what the exact issue is . --- CodePen Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice