# Monodevelop Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [.NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/net-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 53 ## About Monodevelop MonoDevelop enables developers to quickly write desktop and web applications on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It also makes it easy for developers to port .NET applications created with Visual Studio to Linux and Mac OS X maintaining a single code base for all platforms. ## Monodevelop Reviews ### 1. Monodevelop was fun to work with, I created a cross-platform native application easily! **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lauren S. | Web Developer and Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Monodevelop?** The IDE with different views that allow the developer to see different aspects before running debug **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. **What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing a cross-platform solution for our client for web app integration was the goal, and we got it done! ### 2. the fact that it supports multiple programming languages ​​seems like a very attractive feature **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nely J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2020 **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, since in this way I can acquire greater knowledge in others 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 A 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. **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 **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. ### 3. I used Monodevelop for Game Development with Unity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gavin C. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2020 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:** Monodevelop is very easy to use and lightweight. **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. ### 4. Mono is amazing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2020 **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). **What do you dislike about Monodevelop?** there no Some functionality that is in .net framework **What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used mono like main framework in Unity3d ### 5. My 4 years development experience apart, didnot find anything better than monodevelop **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hammad B. | Unity 3d Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2020 **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 **What do you dislike about Monodevelop?** exploring through scripts and sometimes theres bug with intellisense **Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:** I would highly recommend this ide to people who are just getting started, or even power house users. **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 ### 6. Simple, Sleek and Modern **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Haris Ajmal R. | Product Marketing Manager, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Monodevelop?** The color scheme, auto-indentation, auto-complete suggestions and overall fluidity in terms of experience. **What do you dislike about Monodevelop?** Incomplete or missing error log information **Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:** Switching to Monodevelop would be the single best decision of your coding life, period. **What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Coding for Unity games, the realtime code compilation and error resolving is exceptional. ### 7. It is more user friendly and fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Irfan A. | Unity Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Monodevelop?** Its debugging feature is good enough to work with **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. **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. **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. ### 8. Using for a school project **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matija J. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Monodevelop?** Great IDE for C# Programming on Linux, especially for desktop applicatioons. Fast. **What do you dislike about Monodevelop?** Bad intellisense and autocomplete. Some bugs in IDE (not responding) **Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:** Ok for smsll projects **What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing desktop apps for school projects on linux using c# and active databases. ### 9. Easy to operate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Monodevelop?** Intelligence will help me many time like i some time use deligate or generic its creats syntax. **What do you dislike about Monodevelop?** Database problem Some time it crashed and hanged system. **Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:** Highly recommended for everyone. Good tool for every programmer especially game developers in unity. **What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps alot in auto intelligence and easy to handle and use ### 10. I used it in a Unity project. Very good alterantive if you don't want to deal with Javascript. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Monodevelop?** I like .NET, so this lightweight version is perfect. **What do you dislike about Monodevelop?** I miss some features from .NET Core. DI would be nice. **Recommendations to others considering Monodevelop:** Using (a part) of the .NET language can be a real pro, also the fact that it is cross-platform takes away a lot of headaches. **What problems is Monodevelop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to cross platform develop using a .NET language is cool. ## Monodevelop Discussions - [Learning on Mac](https://www.g2.com/discussions/4391-learning-on-mac) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Monodevelop pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/monodevelop/reviews/monodevelop-review-4225160?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+20%3A30%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e020d513-1e44-48a3-b9d9-9aacf2948e10&secure%5Btoken%5D=6048351925d6168f5411f1d85abd47981e694608492a0a5469906a5045925ab9&format=llm_user) ## Monodevelop Features **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates ## Top Monodevelop Alternatives - [Rider](https://www.g2.com/products/rider/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (73 reviews) - [Essential Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/essential-studio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (698 reviews) - [DevExpress](https://www.g2.com/products/devexpress/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (112 reviews)