--- title: RAD Studio Reviews meta_title: 'RAD Studio Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how RAD Studio works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 12 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: Integrated Development Environments (IDE) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/integrated-development-environments-ide --- # RAD Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Embarcadero Technologies **Category:** [C/C++ Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/c-c-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About RAD Studio RAD Studio delivers integrated tools to help you design, code, compile, test, and deploy every app you envision! RAD Studio’s UI design tools and native performance are trusted by organizations for robust enterprise-level systems and are flexible enough for cutting-edge consumer apps. With a single codebase and responsive UI that compiles natively for each target platform, you can stop rewriting the same functionality for each additional device and focus on making great apps. Single source code, any platform. Target Windows 11, iOS 15, macOS 12, Android 12 and Linux. Compile for Android API 30. Compile Delphi apps for macOS M-series (Apple Silicon) processors. Design on high-DPI 4k+ screens. View VCL Styles in design time. New & modernized VCL components. Use enhanced remote desktop support to collaborate remotely. ## RAD Studio Reviews ### 1. Learn quickly with RAD Studio **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura K. | Senior Vice President, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** Delphi is effective which is why we use it. The inclusion of version control systems and a directory run by the community would improve the experience. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** The connection of the IDE in older versions is terrible, and version control systems are not integrated. Integration with version control systems can help to improve it. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment utilising little code and assistance with business process analysis.We can create new systems with just a small number of programmers and people learn quickly. ### 2. About RAD Studio **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chinna Guraiah D. | .Net Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2023 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** Requirements can be ch6 at anytime .Create fast native applications for windows and Mac,mobiles from one code base,Create Linux and windows server applications.Built 64 but windows applications with parallelise existing code **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** Needs strong team collaboration and can't work with large teams ,needs highly skilled devolepers .Moreover there should be good knowledge and understanding skills about the studio. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** With low code deployment and support for business process review.That we can develop by few developers only,People can learn fast and systems works so quickly in the performance wise. ### 3. IDE Embarcadero Rad Studio **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2023 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** Rad Studio is the best IDE for developpment of C++ / Delphi Apps **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** User Documentation can be better Software installation is difficult, Migration of project from oldnest version to new version is a big challenge **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** devolpment, debug, test, deploy c++ application ### 4. Basically everything from this one platform. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Canice P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2023 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** The visual suite. Not having to write code for elements. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** I think that licensed should either get free upgrades or significantly discounted uprades. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to quickly deploy apps for work as well as for my shooting club ### 5. Best IDE for creating desktop business applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Алексей . | Chief Technology Officer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2022 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** RAD Studio is the integrated development environment (IDE) that brings to life the paradigm of rapid active development (RAD). WYSIWYG form editor and rich native components as well as many open-source third-party components make the development of business apps much faster, visual, and develop-friendly. RAD Studio supports using the same components across C++ and Delphi projects, so you can use components that are familiar to you in every project regardless of the programming language you are using at the moment. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** Unfortunately, there are no public components marketplaces for RAD Studio at the moment, so you need to google the right components for your projects by yourself. Sometimes, the code lint is unstable and tells you that there is an error while there isn't. If you have a very big project (millions of code lines), the compiler sometimes outputs an access violation error, then you need to do the full rebuild of the project or restart the IDE. **Recommendations to others considering RAD Studio:** If you are considering RAD Studio, but you don't need C/C++, you should choose Delphi - it has the same functionality but is much cheaper than RAD Studio. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** RAD studio helps us to use the same infrastructure when we use all of our main programming languages - Delphi, C++ and C. It gives our software the same "look and feel" regardless of what programming language we are using. ### 6. RAD studio best development IDE if you want productive people. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gordon M. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** We use Delphi because it is extremely productive. As a language Delphi doesn't have the complexity of C++ or the performance issues of Java. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** I have yet to find anything that I dislike about RAD Studio. We use both the C++ environment and Delphi. Definitely prefer Delphi over C++. **Recommendations to others considering RAD Studio:** The RAD Studio product is rock solid. We have been using 10.4 since released a few months ago with no issues in our very intense applications. We are a startup company, our first product nearly two years ago was RAD Studio. After leaving Fiserv (Financial Services Company) using 2013 Developer Studio for over four years, RAD Studio is a big improvement. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are creating decision making applications using machine and artificial intelligence. We have a proprietary Vector State Machine that uses a patented technology that Delphi implements with ease compared to the C++ version and there is no way to do the same implementation in Java. We are working with the Department of Defense, Insurance Companies, and Energy Companies. DoD requires C++ otherwise we would be strictly Delphi. ### 7. One Development IDE for all needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohan Rajesh K. | Lead Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2021 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** The way the IDE evolved is the best thing from a very basic pascal application to a wide range of VCL, FMX, and cross-platform apps. I love the debugging, output application settings, version control integration etc.. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** IN old versions the IDE looks very bad and has no integration to version control systems. It can be improved by providing the integration to version control systems **Recommendations to others considering RAD Studio:** It is a good product to develop applications for windows and other platforms using VCL and FMX **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used RAD studio to develop VCL applications using Object pascal, we developed and maintained applications for the construction industry, Retail industry, etc... It helped us very much in using the applications ### 8. RAD Studio, efficient in building stable software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andre v. | Senior Software Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** RAD Studio leans on a very stable development language Object Pascal which has lots of 3rd party components and tools to make developing complex applications simple. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** In the past updates have been far and few between but the last 3 years there has been real attention to releasing new updates and fixes regularly. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** RAD Studio can quickly build stable software targetting multiple operating systems. The ability to remote debug software is a big win when troubleshooting software. ### 9. Rad Studio 10.3.3 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2020 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** Ide is very complete, easy to use and compatible with a lot of platforms in FMX. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** Always to much problems with new version **Recommendations to others considering RAD Studio:** Recommend **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Help developing faster ### 10. The nexus of productivity, performance, and features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** I've used Delphi for years, and it is constantly the first development tool I turn too for most development tasks. With support for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, it is fantastic to create an app on any platform I need to target. There is a fantastic community and ecosystem of 3rd party components and developers. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** Needs a better web solution and easier to discover community driven directory of packages. **Recommendations to others considering RAD Studio:** Just do it. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Software development - mostly utility and line of business type applications, but also consumer facing. It gives me the best productivity features while not preventing me from accessing the hardware and platform APIs. ### 11. Works well with our development environment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2019 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** The interface is nice. The integration with the components and tools we use in the menus and toolbars works well. I like the placement of the menus and how easy it is to customize the look and feel of the environment. This part is essential as it allows me and the other developers to set things up so we can access the tools we need more quickly. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** It does take a bit to load everything on startup. There are also times components do not load correctly and so I've had to close and reopen the program. I have also have troubles with temp files remaining in my system after I close the program. I found code online to create a batch file to correct this. **Recommendations to others considering RAD Studio:** There is a bit of a learning curve, but it does have some nice features **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We create applications in Delphi and use RAD Studio with Delphi ### 12. This has live data support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2018 **What do you like best about RAD Studio?** I like the drag and drop option with this interface, and I also like that the live data support! That alone is a game changer! You can also build one UI and use it on multiple devices like my iPhone and then also on my mac book. **What do you dislike about RAD Studio?** I heard the cost is pricey but other than that I haven't really run into any problems with the interface that someone couldn't help me with. **Recommendations to others considering RAD Studio:** Be caution of the errors with the C ++ builder 4.0 programm, I have into serval problems with prg.rtf file snippet causing errors. **What problems is RAD Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster coding and prototyping as well as faster app development. ## RAD Studio Discussions - [Is RAD Studio Delphi?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-rad-studio-delphi) - [What is RAD Studio used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-rad-studio-used-for) - [Is RAD Studio free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-rad-studio-free) - [Please before release new version be sure that work properly](https://www.g2.com/discussions/31064-please-before-release-new-version-be-sure-that-work-properly) - 1 upvote - [View RAD Studio pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/rad-studio/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-04+03%3A29%3A59+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c2d9a4d2-9536-4388-a09e-43ae39a8a4cf&secure%5Btoken%5D=0611f49c7af07ab8c8ec00f6a8aacfd59ff763080e5f7b11aa880045807ce6b2&format=llm_user) ## RAD Studio Features **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates ## Top RAD Studio Alternatives - [Visual Studio](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,818 reviews) - [Xcode](https://www.g2.com/products/xcode/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (996 reviews) - [NetBeans](https://www.g2.com/products/netbeans/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (655 reviews)