--- title: VISUAL ASSIST Reviews meta_title: 'VISUAL ASSIST Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 29 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how VISUAL ASSIST works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 29 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: "DevSecOps\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t" url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devsecops --- # VISUAL ASSIST Reviews **Vendor:** Idera, Inc. **Category:** [Static Code Analysis Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/static-code-analysis) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 29 ## About VISUAL ASSIST Visual Assist (VA) is a productivity plugin for Microsoft's Visual Studio developed by Whole Tomato Software. VA has been enhancing the overall IDE experience for thousands of C/C++ and C# developers for over fifteen years. Things You Can Do with Visual Assist • Navigate your code effortlessly • Inspect code and syntax automatically • Restructure code without affecting external behavior • Modernize legacy code • Improve readability • Access to a variety of accessibility features • Tailored support for Unreal Engine The plugin lets programmers code significantly faster and more efficiently with features such as autocomplete, code correction, and code navigation among others. These help you stay focused on more important tasks without the hassle. Visual Assist supports Visual Studio 2022, 2019, 2017 and 2015. Older versions also supported with limited features. ## VISUAL ASSIST Reviews ### 1. Navigation Confusion Hinders Workflow **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishna R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2024 **What do you like best about VISUAL ASSIST?** I think Visual Assist offers the most to me and this is its ability to provide real-time and collaborative communication, among team members. One of the well known functions of the code refactoring applications is to speed up the development process and ensure optimal code quality. **What do you dislike about VISUAL ASSIST?** The inconsistency in code navigation functionalty is among the key disadvantages. I come across a lot of impediment in locating necessary piece of code base which usually results in wastage of time and low performance. **What problems is VISUAL ASSIST solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Visual Assist might be considered as the most effective solution to the issue of source code collaboration and refactoring as it employs tools for improving collaboration options among developers and improving the quality of code. The project represents the ability to work together at the same time, while code refactor tools enable quicker development processes. ### 2. Necessary but frustrating **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2022 **What do you like best about VISUAL ASSIST?** Fuzzy finder of files and symbols with better performance than Visual Studio—this alone is worth the price. Change signature of a function (when it works, ~90% of the time). Rename for variables and methods is a game changer. **What do you dislike about VISUAL ASSIST?** As you write code Visual Assist gets confused and typing latency gets really bad—so annoying—on an Intel i9. All refactorings break. So you have to go in tiny steps, get your code to build so that Visual Assist can understand the code. Only Visual Studio itself is getting better about refactoring, and Visual Studio 2019 can usually beat Visual Assist for simple things. For example when you type a new function declaration, the command to create the definition will be disabled for ~7 seconds while Visual Assist figures out there is a new declaration, so I just use the Visual Studio command to create the definition. List methods used to highlight what method you were in so you could refresh your memory on what arguments are being passed, but hasn't for years anymore—now it is just a list. Find symbol dialog mixes symbols across projects and included directories, even with the "Show only symbols define in current solution" option checked. Support is good, but slow and takes so much back and forth just because of how complicated the program is, and the amount of project properties investigation you have to do. Visual Assist support st be a hard role to hire for: basically a programmer that wants to do support—so I empathize. But even after sending them all my code for a small ~30K project, I wasn't able to get the parsing working—and I gave up and stopped renewing. The couple of updates per year address how I use the program. The basics have been getting worse year after year as the company is focusing on differentiating features and marketing. The last 12 months of updates have just been for Unreal Engine and Code Inspection—which just pesters you to change your typedefs to using statements, and your defines to constexprs. **What problems is VISUAL ASSIST solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've been using Visual Assist since 2008, when it was like oxygen as it could give you a tooltip of a function's signature when Intellisense couldn't. But Visual Studio got better. Now its best feature is the Find Symbol window which I use unconsciously while navigating code, and for that—it is easily worth the ~100 USD a year. There are still bugs with it that don't get fixed, or even an option to filter what directory it is seaching—but if they ever have a bug fix or feature for it, I would renew. But it is still a fuzzy finder written in the 2000s and it shows. Vim / Visual Studio Code already has way better fuzzy finders. ## VISUAL ASSIST Discussions - [What is VISUAL ASSIST used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-visual-assist-used-for) - [View VISUAL ASSIST pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-assist/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-15+12%3A07%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=14206b64-4a2b-4c99-b212-61874749514f&secure%5Btoken%5D=f51bcc3b9f99b9cac1a7c97e1c512f0c5d713904547713ef4e003de45a07777c&format=llm_user) ## VISUAL ASSIST Features **Agentic AI - Static Code Analysis** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top VISUAL ASSIST Alternatives - [ReSharper C++](https://www.g2.com/products/resharper-c/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (20 reviews) - [ReSharper](https://www.g2.com/products/resharper/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (83 reviews) - [Gearset DevOps](https://www.g2.com/products/gearset-devops/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (303 reviews)