Xojo 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

Xojo

3.4

(10)

Pricing

Starting at $99.00 per year

About Xojo

Xojo is a comprehensive and user-friendly cross-platform app development tool. With support for macOS, Windows, Linux, web, mobile, and Raspberry Pi, Xojo empowers developers to create native applications using the object-oriented Xojo programming language. Its drag-and-drop interface and rich framework enable rapid development, abstraction from platform details, and the ability to build anything imaginable.

Xojo Screenshots

Xojo Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $99.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$99.00

flat rate, per year

No plan information available

Xojo Features

Popular features found in Application Development
API
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Debugging
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Pre-built Templates
Source Control
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
More features of Xojo
Change Management
Code Development
Code Editing
For Developers
Graphical User Interface
Integrated Development Environment
Mobile Development
Software Development
Web App Development
Web/Mobile App Development

Xojo User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.4

Ratings Breakdown

10%

50%

20%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

3.6

Customer support

3.4

Functionality

3.4

Have you used Xojo and would like to share your experience with others?

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

A good software to begin with

This software was of great use for me and I would certainly recommend it to people who want to start programming.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It's the first software I used to begin programming. It is very easy to use and it helps beginners learn the basics of programming.

Cons:

You have to pay to be able to have the software you created for your own use.

Vendor Response

Xojo is free to use for learning and development. If you are making apps for your own use you do not need a license. A license is only required when you want to build your application to share it with others.

Replied February 2019

Stanley R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

I built a successful software business with Xojo

Overall, my experience has been very positive. Xojo is actively developed and receives regular updates—typically every few months—with new features and improvements. It’s refreshing to use a development tool that feels alive and continues to evolve rather than being abandoned or stagnant.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have been using Xojo for more than 25 years to build and maintain nine commercial applications for macOS and Windows. Thanks to its stability, cross-platform capabilities, and long-term reliability, I’ve been able to ship real products, keep them updated for decades, and run a sustainable software business on top of it.

Cons:

If I had to mention one downside, it would be the pricing. License costs have steadily increased over the years, which can be challenging for independent developers and small businesses. It would be great to see more generous loyalty or renewal discounts for long-term users.

Perry F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2026

A huge slap in the face to long term customers. Horrible support.

They treat their long term loyal customers like garbage. The IDE is always slow and buggy, and they raised the prices so much it's clear they're pricing out many of their best customers. I'll switch to something else now after bringing dozens of uses to XOJO over the years. Goodbye.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nothing anymore. It used to be great for rapid development, but their software has gotten buggier and more bloated. I continued using it because the support used to be good. Now they've written off all their loyal customers with a massive price increase and told everyone to leave if they don't like it. So I'm leaving.

Cons:

Bugs, terrible customer service, outrageous pricing. After 20+ years of using XOJO (formerly REALbasic) they've raised the price of their license 500%. Support was rude and unhelpful, basically told me to go kick rocks.

Rodrigo T.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Great for business development

It is a little strange at first, but then it becomes very productive, and it pays to learn from the ease of centralized multiplatform code. VB6 was the most productive thing so far, Xojo replaces it with praise, and it is a good escape option for those who have tired of the false promises that have revolved around VB.NET for years. In business, you need productivity + resources, not reinventing the wheel every 2 years, losing much of what you produced.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It inherits a lot from VB6 and VB.NET, making it a quick turn to reuse old codes, giving a new look. It allows to compile for several platforms from the same source code. Minimalist tool, which simplifies use. Very productive!

Cons:

The autocomplete could be better, it is a little strange, on the web it does not generate code fully compatible with Edge, causing some bugs. Android option is missing. It is quite expensive.

Reasons for choosing Xojo

Visual Studio: I use it and I will use it for a while, but it gets worse, heavier, with more features that you don't need and don't use, and outside of C # you don't see any real improvements in technology. Leaving Windows Forms for WPF or UWP doesn't help at all, it just creates new problems and the projects get unnecessarily bigger without having more features. For me in terms of business Xamarin is a badly implemented and buggy mess. JetBrains: it has many good tools, but as they are disconnected from a complete technology, I found it useful to use in IoT with open technology, but I didn't find it so useful when you design commercial systems that must contemplate many interconnected applications. Java: Oracle made Java obscure, I don't trust what they will invent tomorrow, UI options are limited.

Reasons for switching to Xojo

I don't like the complications of C#, although I use it often, in business I prefer clean and easy code for anyone to understand, I have legacy codes from VB6 and VB.NET for 20 years, which I don't want to throw away, because I would lose money. If you migrate from VB.NET to C# to gain access to the news, you will not gain anything, you have to redo the UI for modern interfaces, pay for a giant .NET Core package for each small project or heavy UWP. It is more productive to adopt Xojo, rewrite less code and take advantage of the multiplatform. Xojo is more expensive, but it makes up for the cost you save on the other side.

Michael S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Xojo for cross-platform development is a winner!

For the most part, development with Xojo has been enjoyable, perhaps even fun! It's pretty cool to create something on a Windows dev machine and then recompile it for Mac and have it just work! It would be even more amazing if they could include an installer/packager for all supported platforms as part of the Xojo universe, but there are plenty of free installer systems out there.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Xojo is a very approachable programming language and environment that allows me to create NATIVE applications that run on Windows, Mac, Linux and more while utilizing the same codebase. It has been a lifesaver for projects requiring rapid turnaround that must also be multi-platform, since I only have to code it (essentially) once. The fact that they also support web applications, mobile apps and even the Raspberry Pi is an added bonus!

Cons:

The development environment occasionally generates a fatal error for unknown reasons. To be fair, it might be related to my own computer/OS, but I have no way to be sure. Fortunately the latest version of Xojo seems to be more forgiving when this happens, and often it even recovers on its own when this happens to me.

Reasons for switching to Xojo

Previously had to use multiple languages and environments to create an application : one for Windows, another for Mac, etc. Xojo was the solution to that pain point for me.

John M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Xojo was a great idea back in the day!

At first it was pretty good then they couldn't keep up with all the needed platform integrations. Google has a lot of people working on this very issue and it is still in the works not counting all the other on the outside of Google. I spent lots of money to develop one app and replaced it in a single day with web2py (a web based python framework. ) and yes it has database integration that works. It is the best I have seen.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cross platform. The code was Basic Like syntax! It was call RealBasic back in the day, yes I go back that far!

Cons:

No database integration, out of the box.

Reasons for choosing Xojo

Like I said at the same time because Mojo's lack of database integration. Web2py was amazingly fast to develop in and I could leave it for a year or more and come right back and pick up right were I left off.

Reasons for switching to Xojo

Cross platform development!

Verified

Reviewer

Airlines/ Aviation

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

A comprehensive easy-to-use alternative to coding native apps but still lacks scalability

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Xojo's drag-and-drop feature makes it a go-to application prototyping tool for us. Very intuitive & responsive. Other integrated must-have features like hash table, trouble shooting, & an excellent GUI make it a robust tool to develop applications across multiple platforms.

Cons:

Scalability of applications is the biggest downside to Xojo. Developing & deploying small-scale applications is Xojo's value but when using the platform to develop large-scale apps with a multitude of features, plug-ins, media, users and add-ons is vey difficult.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Great application for beginners

I've used it for one year and I loved it, but after trying to do bigger projects, it let me down, because it was so weak.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy for starting to learn software developping for younger teenagers, we used this in my class, when I was in high school and it was great for learning.

Cons:

For more advanced projects, it isn't very powerful, so you have to use other programs.

Vendor Response

Xojo is often used by beginners as they begin their programming journey, but it is hardly just a beginner tool. With its advanced object-oriented features, introspection, delegates and inline scripting it is also used by professionals as they make the large-scale apps needed by their companies. In fact, Xojo itself is even made with Xojo! Xojo apps can be found in every conceivable category - from Enterprise/IT to commercial apps, and everything in between.

Replied February 2019

John E.

Verified reviewer

Performing Arts

Self-Employed

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Good for startup programmers or the curious

A straightforward programming program for those like me that are exploring programming, and with higher end functions for others.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I bought this as part of a bundle inexpensively and have used it to explore programming, as someone how had never done anything in that line. It's relatively simple.

Cons:

I have not gotten deeply enough into it to have any problems, to date. For a novice like me, it's pretty straightforward.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Great for teaching students the fundamentals of coding