--- title: Arduino IDE Reviews meta\_title: 'Arduino IDE Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 145 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Arduino IDE works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 145 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Integrated Development Environments (IDE) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/integrated-development-environments-ide --- # Arduino IDE Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Arduino IDE but has limited features. Are you part of the Arduino IDE team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! The Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a cross-platform application designed for writing, compiling, and uploading code to Arduino-compatible boards. It supports programming in C and C++, offering a user-friendly interface that simplifies the development process for both beginners and experienced developers. The IDE is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Key Features and Functionality: - Code Editor: Provides syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, and brace matching to enhance code readability and writing efficiency. - Compiler and Uploader: Facilitates the compilation of code and its direct upload to Arduino boards, streamlining the development workflow. - Library Manager: Allows easy integration and management of libraries, expanding the functionality of projects with pre-written code modules. - Board Manager: Enables seamless addition and management of various Arduino boards and compatible third-party hardware. - Serial Monitor: Offers real-time communication with the board, aiding in debugging and monitoring of serial data. - Cross-Platform Support: Ensures compatibility across major operating systems, providing flexibility for developers. Primary Value and User Solutions: The Arduino IDE simplifies the process of programming microcontrollers, making it accessible to a wide range of users, from hobbyists to professionals. By offering an intuitive interface and comprehensive tools, it reduces the complexity associated with embedded systems development. The inclusion of a vast library ecosystem and support for numerous hardware platforms allows users to rapidly prototype and deploy interactive electronic projects. This accelerates innovation and learning in fields such as robotics, IoT, and automation. * * * Seller [Arduino](https://www.g2.com/sellers/arduino) Discussions [Arduino IDE Community](https://www.g2.com/products/arduino-ide/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Andrea Corno Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/arduino-ide/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Visual Studio](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Visual Studio") Visual Studio 4.5/5(4,004) ](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews) [ ![Eclipse](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eclipse") Eclipse 4.3/5(3,220) ](https://www.g2.com/products/eclipse/reviews) [ ![Particle](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Particle") Particle 4.5/5(195) ](https://www.g2.com/products/particle/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/arduino-ide/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 145 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Arduino IDE Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Bevywise MQTT Broker ](https://www.g2.com/products/bevywise-mqtt-broker/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") GitHub ](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Node-RED ](https://www.g2.com/products/node-red/reviews) Show More ![Michael G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michael G.") MG Michael G. Owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/6/2022 "Easy to use and very customizable." 5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? It is flexible and can be used in so many ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? Even though it is open, it still takes some training in order to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? Helped us with low cost 24 hour water quality monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing") UE Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/26/2021 "Best platform for iot projects" 5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? As I am working as embedded developer from past 3 years. I use Arduino as a basic tool before starting anything. Lots of example built-in as well as great community support and open source all the great thing in one place. I just use Arduino ide as core. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? Old Arduino ide doesn't have auto complete like vs code. But the beta version having that function. I just like everything just one thing is missing from stable version is ' auto complete '. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Arduino IDE: Make it daily driver. It's free and open source with number of example and solutions that brings iot closer to the world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? It is busy to build iot with Arduino itself. I mostly inspired from Arduino library. I just used Arduino to debug sensor in large or big scale project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![aqsa a.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "aqsa a.") AA aqsa a. Assistant electronics Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/24/2021 "Arduino IDE (A software to use upload program on Microcontrollers and read output)" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? It is easy to use and cop[atible with most of the microcontrollers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? sometimes, when there is no issue, and it is not com ports ar not supporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? At the initial stages of the project, we can check the output at serial monitor without using any hardware based display Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Swathy C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Swathy C.") SC Swathy C. Design Team Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/12/2021 "Perfect IDE tool ever made!" 5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? The IDE allows for direct sketching and editing for programs to be burned into microcontrollers, free of cost. It provides the simplest IDE for board management, inbuilt text editors, and libraries along with sharing with other users. In addition to inbuilt libraries, third-party libraries can be loaded externally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? The default light theme of the IDE causes stress to the user. Though many of the apps have evolved to make their dark/black variants Arduino IDE stills sticks on to the traditional light theme. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Arduino IDE: Highly recommended for IoT enthusiasts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? Arduino has a dedicated board management module, where users can select the board as per the requirement. In case of changing the board, it can be easily changed from the dropdown menu which automatically updates the PORT data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Faizan A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Faizan A.") FA Faizan A. Electrical Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/8/2021 "Arduino IDE way to Go!!!!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? It comes with pre-defined examples for Arduino boards which are an excellent way to understand the C language, especially the Arduino-like controller. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? Sometimes the Autocompletion feature in version 2.0 does not work as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? I am coding the microcontrollers for different projects with Arduino IDE. It has a strong community which is a good thing while developing other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mahek V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mahek V.") MV Mahek V. Software Development Engineer II Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/2/2020 "Best Open Source IoT Coding Platform" 5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? Its ideally the best IDE for IoT Programing because it comes with a support of wide range of microcontrollers. You and easily add the new library support from the preferences to your sketch. Its very much easy for the beginner to start with a default sketch It also has a various example sketch ready to be directly dumped to the controller board. The best part is we can manage the boards from the board manager and we can also verify the sketch for errors before uploading it. It also provides support for the serial communication with the controller board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? It does not support wide range of programming language, Sometimes when we are trying to upload the code very frequently it shows unnecessary error that com port is busy. There is no inbuilt code suggestion module in this IDE. We can not debugger the code line by line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? It has been a very useful tool for me in many of my IoT project where It was easy for me to verify my sketch before uploading to the controller board. I was easily able to add the new controller board(Eso8266, Esp32) to the IDE for use. Adding new library support to the Sketch was also easy from the library manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite BC Barbara C. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/30/2020 "It has helped me to carry out a large number of applications in a more practical way." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? Its interface is quite simple, which allows me to use it without any type of problem, the fact that it can code everything in a quite simple way compared to how it was done with other IDE's is something of great help to make my applications of In a much more fluid way, the amount of information and documentation that is obtained is something quite useful at the moment of starting in the development of the activities, since it is of great help to learn to use the entire application in a quite practical and simple way In the same way, this is something of great help when having to solve any type of problem that may arise while using the application, the fact that it supports a large number of microcontrollers and not exclusively ARDUINO type cards results from great help to make a lot of electronic developments for my university in a much faster and easier way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? It has little information regarding the coding language, as it is not a formal programming language, so accessing information and formal support of the language is quite problematic, apart from that I have no other type of complaint about the use of this application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? It has been helping me to learn more about the world of microcontrollers at the university, by allowing me to program in a much easier and more practical way a large number of electronic devices through the ARDUINO cards, which has been of great help to carry out a great variety of applications in a much more practical way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education") AP Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/15/2021 "Arduino IDE is simple and easy" 5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? I use it for teaching high school students programming and robotics. It makes learning a lot easier for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? It lacks the "professional" features like you find in Eclipse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Arduino IDE: It has everything I need for teaching students who are learning robotics. And none of the pro features that can confuse or trip up beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? Context highlight helps students understand what does what. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Medical Devices](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Medical Devices") UM Verified User in Medical Devices Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/1/2021 "Easy learning and application" 5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? I like the learning platform with template and sample code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? I had issues with time to run the code and bugs appearing upon save Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? I was powering a small device involving LEDs, buttons, switches and motors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Haresh S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Haresh S.") HS Haresh S. Embedded System and firmware Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/29/2021 "Easy and best solution for Arduino based devices" 5/5 What do you like best about Arduino IDE? easy development for Arduino and esp based controllers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Arduino IDE? It does not provide entire library support and quick bug fixing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Arduino IDE solving and how is that benefiting you? Codding. easy implimantion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Arduino IDE? 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