--- title: Zend Studio Reviews meta_title: 'Zend Studio Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 24 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Zend Studio works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.8 review_count: 24 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Integrated Development Environments (IDE) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/integrated-development-environments-ide --- # Zend Studio Reviews **Vendor:** Perforce **Category:** [PHP Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/php-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 24 ## About Zend Studio Zend Studio is the next-generation PHP IDE designed to create robust PHP apps while boosting developers' productivity. It is the only PHP IDE that combines mobile development with PHP and includes a sample mobile application with source code. ## Zend Studio Reviews ### 1. Zend Studio: simple, but complete too **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Desiderio M. | Consultor técnico júnior, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Zend Studio?** Its small weigtlh and simplicity make it a very light and quick editor, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have all the features you need to develope any rich and comlex application. It has one of the best integrations with PHP7, a great debugging tool and project management is really easy. And as a plus, it also takes advantage of the Eclipse ecosystem, gaining access to a lot of usefull plugins. Another good reason to use it is it's easy deployment to cloud based systems. And it also works great when you are working on mobile apps. **What do you dislike about Zend Studio?** It is getting heavier and heavier each new version. Although this is not yet a huge impediment when you are working on a complex project, I don't feel it's the best option for small apps. From time to time, it has some stability issues. **Recommendations to others considering Zend Studio:** If you are looking for a complete IDE for PHP, this is a must try, for sure. You will love it's debugging feature, it's not as heavy as others (although it's becoming less and less light those times). And when your project is getting bigger and bigger, you will see how easy it is to manage hundreds of variables around all that files. **What problems is Zend Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** When a bug appears (and we know they are inevitable), Zend Studio is by far the best tool to find it. And this can save you lots of time (and money, of course). It supports almost any modern framework you can use, increasing productivity. ### 2. Good debugger adequate **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Zend Studio?** Zend Studio release support and all its improvements to the language. Zend studio has great advancements in the Composer and JavaScript tooling, allowing you to create a new PHP project from a composer package or take advantage of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform. It also brings support for HiDPi displays and automatically scales according to the existing DPI settings. **What do you dislike about Zend Studio?** I feel that I was expecting even better results than what I actually got it is a good debugger overall and works really well with JavaScript but I do feel it was somewhat slow and couldn't quite keep up with the amount of work that I needed to complete with this software program **What problems is Zend Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think the best business benefit is that it is an amazing debugger one of the best that I've ever come across I really think that's the biggest benefits and probably the only reason that I would continue with Zend studio ### 3. Good Eclipse Build for PHP Development **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jasper H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Zend Studio?** Comes with easy-to-use FTP/SSH integration. Great PHP hinting and debugging tools. **What do you dislike about Zend Studio?** Runs slow compared to others, like PHP Storm. If you're not used to Eclipse then there is a bit of a learning curve for getting the workspace setup just as you like it. **Recommendations to others considering Zend Studio:** 3rd-party Eclipse plugins make Zend Studio very extendable. **What problems is Zend Studio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing PHP code for multiple types of servers. ## Zend Studio Discussions - [What is Zend Studio used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-zend-studio-used-for) - [View Zend Studio pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/zend-studio/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+09%3A20%3A32+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ba6db27e-f260-4b05-a266-50efa0872cb2&secure%5Btoken%5D=f2af266c520afd1b9e333cf05df12f3340116a3c6a299c7dbaa43d27f25dda1f&format=llm_user) ## Zend Studio Integrations - [Jira](https://www.g2.com/products/jira/reviews) - [Progress WS_FTP](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-software-progress-ws_ftp/reviews) - [TortoiseSVN Subversion on Windows Server 2019](https://www.g2.com/products/tortoisesvn-subversion-on-windows-server-2019/reviews) - [WinSCP](https://www.g2.com/products/winscp/reviews) ## Zend Studio Features **Functionality** - Ease of Use - File Management - Multi-Language Support - Customization - Straight-Out-the-Box Functionality - Help Guides - Patching & Updates ## Top Zend Studio Alternatives - [PhpStorm](https://www.g2.com/products/phpstorm/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (486 reviews) - [NetBeans](https://www.g2.com/products/netbeans/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (657 reviews) - [Eclipse](https://www.g2.com/products/eclipse/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (3,097 reviews)