--- title: CLion Reviews meta_title: 'CLion Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 55 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CLion works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 55 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Integrated Development Environments (IDE) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/integrated-development-environments-ide --- # CLion Reviews **Vendor:** JetBrains **Category:** [C/C++ Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/c-c-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 55 ## About CLion CLion is a smart IDE for developing in C or C++ on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It’s packed with an in-depth code analyzer, a range of code generation options, and the ability to navigate to anywhere in your code in one click. CLion understands modern C++ standards and provides preprocessor support. It integrates with GDB/LLDB and a set of unit testing frameworks. CLion provides various options for remote and embedded development. ## CLion Reviews ### 1. great addition for JetBrains lovers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maciej W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2015 **What do you like best about CLion?** I use on the daily basis PyCharm and RubyMine, so CLion felt so... familiar for me. I didn't have to learn how to use the interface and all features because I knew them well. I am a CS student, I have to use many different languages - it was really exhausting when after three hours of working in PyCharm I had to switch, for example, to Eclipse to write a program in C. I am not saying that Eclipse is a bad IDE, but transition between PyCharm and Eclipse wasn't smooth. What do I love in the CLion? Well, refactoring tools, code generation, code analysis and rich code formatting options are my favourite features. And it's cross platform! It works really well on my Fedora machine. But the main advantage, for me, is that JetBrains offers free licenses to students. Great initiative! **What do you dislike about CLion?** The plugin repository is not so extensive as in some other IDEs. I had some problems with importing old projects to CLion, but there is a high chance that it was my fault :) **Recommendations to others considering CLion:** If you use any other JetBrains IDE you'll love CLion. I am not sure how beginner friendly this IDE is, but I am sure that it's worth of try. **What problems is CLion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I increased my productivity. Thanks to CLion now I have unified set of IDEs - PyCharm, RubyMine and CLion. Time needed to switch from writing a site in RoR to writing a neural network in C is limited as much as it's possible. ### 2. Much easier developement in C **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2016 **What do you like best about CLion?** C lion is able to detect some of the early and easy typos and mistakes in C that take the most time during compilation. This is great and saves a lot of time. Another great feature is the search across all the files in all the projects and identifying the instances of a variable across all the project. **What do you dislike about CLion?** Sometimes linkinglibraries and Makefiles in Clion is harder than using the terminal. **What problems is CLion solving and how is that benefiting you?** I sometimes work on large code bases and it is important to save time. Clion is helps me save a tone of time! ### 3. Clion. Master of all C/ C++ IDEs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2016 **What do you like best about CLion?** VI integration with all IDE tools given. Simply put I can use all of the skills I've learned in VIM in a powerful IDE. This is incredibly valuable. I can run any macros I'd like on my code while still having quick access to all of the available tools such as debuggers. **What do you dislike about CLion?** Not much variation in themes. At this point I'm pretty much nitpicking. Overall the extensibility of the intellij platform doesn't leave much to improve. **Recommendations to others considering CLion:** If you're looking for an easy to use platform with all of the tools you need for development in one place then consider CLion. It makes for a quick on boarding experience for any new hires and streamlines the development experience for existing employees. **What problems is CLion solving and how is that benefiting you?** With CLion I've been able to view my company's C++ codebase through all of the powerful tools and plugins that an intellij IDE provides. With VI integration I was able to code with the speed and flexibility of VIM while still having easy access to the debugger and build system. Instead of having 5-6 different tools open in different terminals everything comes together in one IDE to give developers the most streamlined development experience. ### 4. The best IDE for C++ after VIM (= **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janderson B. | Co-founder and CEO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2016 **What do you like best about CLion?** Great refactor tools, GIT integration, GDB debug and all that other things jetbrains rules! **What do you dislike about CLion?** I think we need a better valgring integration. **Recommendations to others considering CLion:** Give a chance to CLion, it will really surprise you! **What problems is CLion solving and how is that benefiting you?** CLion overcomes other IDE in practically all aspects, including a considerable boost on team productivity. ### 5. Useful and keeps getting better **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yu Chen H. | Co-Founder, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2016 **What do you like best about CLion?** You get the familiarity and extensibility of the JetBrains family of IDE's. If you've used Android Studio before, then you will love CLion. You get line by line debugging, integration with CMake, and all these good things. **What do you dislike about CLion?** Some of the part of the IDE are still in the works. Does not feel as smooth or well thought out as Visual Studio at times. **Recommendations to others considering CLion:** It is getting better and better! **What problems is CLion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Development IDE ## CLion Discussions - [Is CLion a good IDE?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-clion-a-good-ide) - 1 comment - [View CLion pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/clion/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-28+21%3A49%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=700d3c98-7b60-4a6a-9771-e03a3a691b7b&secure%5Btoken%5D=ef4cc87cdcfcacf249261034505ff6419cb50c8863d2f96c04b3cdf8fe6584c2&format=llm_user) ## CLion Features **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates ## Top CLion Alternatives - [Visual Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,829 reviews) - [Eclipse](https://www.g2.com/products/eclipse/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (3,095 reviews) - [Xcode](https://www.g2.com/products/xcode/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (997 reviews)