--- title: KDevelop Reviews meta_title: 'KDevelop Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 10 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how KDevelop works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 10 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: Integrated Development Environments (IDE) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/integrated-development-environments-ide --- # KDevelop Reviews **Vendor:** KDE **Category:** [C/C++ Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/c-c-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About KDevelop KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix flavors. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998. ## KDevelop Reviews ### 1. Great IDE with bunch of cool features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** NItin K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2023 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** Great integration with Git and Cmake, code navigation is pretty smooth, almost zero learning curve as the GUI is very user friendly, the split view is pretty decent and integration for Android Host is a nice add-on **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** The search feature is quite messy and needs a lot of improvement, build integration with Boost and other libraries is tricky and takes a lot of time; pretty average documentation and support forums **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Development environment for large C++ project. It helps in faster code navigation and debugging. Running it with multiple compiler options is helping in faster build generation. ### 2. Reviewing KDevelop **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** KDevelop is a free, open-source IDE for KDE users. Also, it has a feature-full plugin extensible IDE for PHP, Python, C, C++ and more. **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** Sometimes it gets slow and has poor customer support, but nowadays, it works fine. **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It improved the quality and also the productivity of the code. ### 3. It provides editing, navigation features for programming languages. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunil C. | Network Security Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2023 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** Kdevelop is free to use for computer operating systems **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** It takes time to load and opens slowly few times **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me in editing programming language. ### 4. Perfect IDE for C++ coding in Linux environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubhashree D. | Software Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2021 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** Its code completion feature and the variety of plugins if offers are extremely helpful. **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** I couldnt find any downsides of KDevelop as such. **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do coding for competitive programming in Kdevelop. Its version control and code completion feature helps me write programs faster. ### 5. A debugger with Simple GUI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2021 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** Kdevelop is my debugger whan I ger into software development in Linux environment still I use kdevelop for linux development. **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** Kdevelop setup was very difficult in windows compared with others. **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly I use kdevelop for C++ development. It was able to semantics of a language and give suggestions and more over its very light weight software that takes very less memory. ### 6. KDevelop is great for C++ development on Linux. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tai M. | Software Development Engineer II, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2018 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** KDevelop has a clean interface. Its GUI debugger is great, and beats gdb hands down. **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** The GUI debugger does not expose advanced features of gdb. Workaround: it is possible to execute gdb commands directly. **Recommendations to others considering KDevelop:** If you are still using emacs or vim, give KDevelop a try. **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was doing research and development on Linux as a research assistant. With the GUI interface of KDevelop, I was able to develop and debug code more quickly than in a text editor such as emacs. ### 7. KDE & Qt technology for your IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** KDevelop it's a perfect IDE for KDE users. KDevelop offer: - support for most popular programming languages like PHP, Python, C, C++ and more... - integration with most popular CVS like Git, SVN and Mercurial - auto-completion, syntax highlight and debugger - better integration with KDE technology (eg. KPart, KWrite/Kate) **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** KDevelop sometimes is slow to during the project scanning **Recommendations to others considering KDevelop:** KDevelop is a compete IDE for everyday development **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** KDevelop increase the development productivity and quality of code ### 8. Powerful, light and fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor . | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2016 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** Integration in KDE, support for lots of languages, speed **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** Slows down when searching through lots of files **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing code ### 9. Best IDE for Linux **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2015 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** It's the only IDE that has C++ code completion and refactoring that isn't as slow as in Eclipse. I also like it comes with Ruby support which I use daily. **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** Building the project is cumbersome, but, again, most other IDE's out there provide similar experience **Recommendations to others considering KDevelop:** KDevelop is hidden gem, make sure to evaluate it. **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for my daily Ruby/Rails development tasks, and occasionally for C++ development. ### 10. Simple and great IDE **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Slim K. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2015 **What do you like best about KDevelop?** Simple to configure and have a nice GUI **What do you dislike about KDevelop?** Dont detect automatically my executables **What problems is KDevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Actually many kind of problems.. ## KDevelop Discussions - [What languages are supported by KDevelop select all that apply?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-languages-are-supported-by-kdevelop-select-all-that-apply) - [Is KDevelop free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-kdevelop-free) - [How do I use KDevelop?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-use-kdevelop) - [Is KDevelop a good IDE?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-kdevelop-a-good-ide) - [View KDevelop pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/kdevelop/reviews?open_modal_url=%2Ffr%2Fproducts%2Fkdevelop%2Fwishlists%3Fhost_path%3D%252Fproducts%252Fkdevelop%252Freviews%26source%3Dsticky_header_pin§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-24+20%3A58%3A44+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8c308750-bfbb-4dae-bc94-99aee0e4886f&secure%5Btoken%5D=7e4714f858e5251a372ef528a3e9f2bffa157213aa9a2270054506e31b5be3f8&format=llm_user) ## KDevelop Features **Functionality ** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates ## Top KDevelop Alternatives - [Qt](https://www.g2.com/products/qt/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (53 reviews) - [Eclipse](https://www.g2.com/products/eclipse/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (3,093 reviews) - [Visual Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,819 reviews)