Monodevelop is used as a development environment for .NET and C# work, particularly when developers need to work across operating systems or create scripts for Unity projects. Users also describe using it for cross-platform applications and programming projects.

What company sizes and industries is Monodevelop the best fit for?

Monodevelop appears most relevant to small-business teams and developers working in game development or software projects. The strongest reviewer-reported clusters are:

Company size — Small Business: This is the most represented company-size segment among users who rated the product positively.
Industry — Computer Games: Game development, especially Unity scripting, is a recurring use case.
Industry — Computer Software and Program Development: Users in these areas describe building and maintaining software with the IDE.

What customer support options does Monodevelop provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

Support is not a clear strength of the experience; feedback suggests that getting help can be difficult when issues arise. Users describe having trouble finding documentation or answers to technical questions, so teams that expect readily accessible guidance may want to weigh that carefully.

What features or capabilities could make Monodevelop even more useful?

Monodevelop could be more useful with improvements to reliability and a broader, more consistent set of development tools. The recurring improvement areas include:

Stability and performance: Reduce crashes, hangs, slow loading, and lag during everyday work.
Code assistance and debugging: Make autocomplete and IntelliSense more dependable, and improve debugging and error reporting.
Feature coverage and customization: Expand framework support and built-in capabilities, with more options for themes and customization.

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Lauren S.

Web Developer and Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/6/2022

"Monodevelop was fun to work with, I created a cross-platform native application easily!"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

The IDE with different views that allow the developer to see different aspects before running debug Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

Debugging was sort of hit or miss, but I was able to utilize console and breakpoints to troubleshoot and amend my code before deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nely J.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/30/2020

"The fact that it supports multiple programming languages seems like a very attractive feature."

3/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

Its interface is very simple to use, which has allowed me to learn to program in a fairly simple way. The fact that it supports multiple programming languages seems to me a very attractive feature, as it allows me to acquire greater knowledge in other languages without having to adapt to another IDE. The ease with which the files can be compiled and exported turns out to be quite useful. In terms of performance, the application has been working perfectly. In our case, we have not had any kind of problem while using this IDE. The fact that it is easy to use and easy to learn has allowed both my colleagues and I to simplify our study of the C# programming language in a rather impressive way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

I really don't have any kind of inconvenience regarding the use of this application, which for me was a surprise because I always considered that the use of IDE was quite problematic. However, Monodevelop has not been the case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has been a great help for both me and my university colleagues to learn the fundamentals of programming in a fairly simple, simple, and didactic way, and especially the proper C# syntax, which has been great for us. It helps when we have to study for our exams. The fact that it supports multiple languages has been something that we have found phenomenal since it allows us to continue using it in the future without any inconvenience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gavin C.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/6/2020

"I used Monodevelop for Game Development with Unity"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

I used Monodevelop for a while a few years ago and I really liked how light weight it was. Visual Studio for example has many features and it is easy to get lost with all of the buttons that are visible. Monodevelop's interface is very simple and easy to use and navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

Honestly there was very little to dislike. I didn't go too much into the hidden features of Monodevelop. I was using it as a simple IDE and it worked great for me. No problems at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:

Monodevelop is very easy to use and lightweight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

At the time I was working on a Game Development project and a lot of people were recommending Monodevelop because it could easily integrate with Unity Game Engine and allowed for better debugging compared to other IDEs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/1/2020

"Mono is amazing"

4/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

MonoDevelop 2.6 is cool. I first tried MonoDevelop about a 4 year ago and gave up quickly. It just wasn’t usable, but these days it’s a totally different story. I’m quite drawn to Mono and MonoDevelop because I used to be a .net developer and really like C# as a language. Also as an old Delphi developer the .net framework has an intuitive design and structure since they were both designed in large part by the same guy – Anders Hejlsberg. I saw him present on LINQ in LA, he’s a clever dude.

Mono is an open source project to make .Net compliant tools, compilers, runtimes etc. able to run not just on windows, but on linux, android, mac etc. MonoDevelop is an open source development environment for Mono providing GUI designers and language support for C#, Java, Boo, VB.Net, Python, Vala, C, C++, Oxygene (Object Pascal based .Net language, though not available in the current version of MonoDevelop). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

there no Some functionality that is in .net framework Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ghazanfar a.

Game Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/16/2020

"monodevelop crashes a lot that's why it is very unlikely for me to suggest someone ."

1/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

faster then other compilers, easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

only one problem with monodevelop that it crashes a lot. which is kind of irritating . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:

well it is a great tool for beginners to use . because it does not cost much in size and load. if you could just fix the random crashes it will become the best tool to develop your project or product in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

i am a game developer and work on unity , monodevelop used to come with unity but not anymore . and i don't use it anymore simply because VS is way better .. slower but still better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hammad B.

Unity 3d Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/30/2020

"My 4 years development experience apart, didnot find anything better than monodevelop"

5/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

It was a whole package overall, but mostly i liked the auto completion and intellisense and easy to debug feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

exploring through scripts and sometimes theres bug with intellisense Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:

I would highly recommend this ide to people who are just getting started, or even power house users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has been super fast and my goto ide since the beginning of my career, i have been using it for unity game development, i have already discussed above what it brings to the table mostly its lightweight feature and can work on low ram Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Haris Ajmal R.

Product Marketing Manager

Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/23/2020

"Simple, Sleek and Modern"

5/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

The color scheme, auto-indentation, auto-complete suggestions and overall fluidity in terms of experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

Incomplete or missing error log information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Irfan A.

Unity Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/17/2020

"It is more user friendly and fast"

5/5

What do you like best about Monodevelop?

Its debugging feature is good enough to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Monodevelop?

Crashing was a con of mono develop, as you make certain clicks on any script in editor, monodevelop crashes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:

Its a light weight easy to work IDE with necessary features for efficient programming techniques implementations. I strongly recomend mono develop if its team manage to resolve said issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?

First thing is its crashing thing and second is its support for latest .net frameworks, as features like intellisense don't work in latest unity versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.