JetBrains Reviews 

use annoying ai voice for there adds and product is ass

We used Jetbrains for 5 years after which we accidentally bought it for 12 more months. We asked a refund but "refund is only possible within 30 days". Our request was 40 days after the purchase. Very dissapointing.

Wollte mich anmelden (Chrome Browser).
Aber das Tool nahm keine meiner Mailadressen. Eine endet auf @xxx.org - das System nimmt das als ungültig an. Die anderen auf @xx.xxxx.de - das will es auch nicht. Immer seltsame Fehlermeldungen.

Zufällig sehe ich kurz später aber Anmelde-Codes für ALLE ausprobierten Adressen im Postfach. Beim Versuch, einen Account zu erstellen, gab es aber keinen Hinweis auf einen Code - nur Fehlermeldungen.

Also probiere ich systematisch die Codes und jeweiligen Adressen durch - die zeitlich alle noch gehen sollten. Ungültig. Neu angefordert. Ungültig.
Ich verschwende hier meine Zeit und gebe ich auf. Das Tool funktiert nicht. Woran es auch immer liegt.

Tout simplement les meilleurs IDEs que j'ai pu utiliser. Le seul bémol est qu'ils m'arrivent d'avoir des freeze lors de leurs utilisations, et cela, sur différents PC. Le prix est également un peu trop chère, mais offre gratuitement leurs IDEs aux étudiants. Ce qui n'est pas la norme pour tout le monde.

I really love so much of the Intellij Ultimate app. It does all sorts of amazing things much better than something like Visual Studio code, and without having to configure a lot of them first. Just works out of the box. However, that comes with a hefty price on disk space and often speed. While it's a fantastic piece of software, it takes up a massive 4GB of disk space and often takes a while to perform certain functions because of its complexity and probably the number of files it has packaged. I wish Intellij would rewrite this using more modern, lightweight code to make it faster and smaller. This has been the case since I started using it in 2014 or so. It's time to change.

Also, the documentation is exceedingly complicated, often not-quite-complete, and confusing. It needs to be rewritten by an excellent tech writer who knows how to translate engineer into plain English. So many questions I've had to ask the tech help service that could have been answered with better documentation.

Speaking of which, their technical help is top-notch. They always respond within hours, at most 24, and will often solve things the first time. If not, they will continue to work with you as long as it takes to correct whatever issue or question you have. Some of the best tech support I've experienced ever.

My experience for being a developer for years was a blessing for me. I started using Android Studio, which is based on IntelliJ. Eventually, I switched to IntelliJ itself for Desktop software development, and as of now, I do C++ programming in CLion. Best IDEs out there. I also eventually used PyCharm and Rider, due to certain things that I had to follow at work.

However, the reason for giving 4 stars is due to IDE management. Basically, I am referring to multiple IDEs, which each IDE has a different use case, like IntelliJ for Java, CLion for C/C++, Rider for C#, and the list goes on for different IDEs. If there was an IDE from them that actually combines all IDEs into one, then I am getting it, since I have different needs for specific projects. Main reason is, when I have to use 2 languages for one project, where I use Java as the main language, with the use of IntelliJ, and C++ for JNI by using CLion. Now, for a PC that only has 16 GB of RAM, this gives me quite a few limits here, and I don't like to have to install plugins, just to have to use IntelliJ for everything, especially when CLion does things better for C++ coding.

In general, IDEs from JetBrains are good for use than VS Code with a million plugins that you have to install, where with JetBrains IDEs, you have the IDE already set up. Managing IDEs, it's not the best, but it's okay. Using multiple IDEs at once, and having a browser open, that's where my PC is starting to beg for resources being freed.

The only thing Jetbrains is good at is false advertisement.

Purchased a discounted Rider subscription and the Jetbrains page where the sale took place very clearly showed the discount would continue through yearly renewals, upon renewal time Jetbrains stated the discount isn't perpetual.

The perpetual discount is the only reason I purchased Rider (as the software itself is full bugs and inconsistencies so is definitely not worth the full price) now Jetbrains are refusing to refund the original subscription.

The customer service team didn't seem to comprehend that their website stated the discount was perpetual no matter how clearly I stated it to them (maybe I should have drawn big lines on the screenshot of the sales page to make it simpler).

So in summary I would advice to stay clear of Jetbrains, even disregarding this issue the Jetbrains products I have used (Rider, Intellij, Fleet) are full of bugs and general irritations. Fleet especially, hopefully Jetbrains see it as their future as they will no doubt certainly fail as a company if they do.

I use Rider (for development in C# for the Xamarin and MAUI frameworks). I start by saying that it used to work, with many bugs but it worked (mainly Xamarin development) most of the times.
Now the software has become completely unusable, I haven't been able to develop with it for more than 3 months now (despite having opened various tickets, obviously not resolved by support, which nicely ignores you) and I am forced to use Visual Studio for Mac (keep in mind that it will not work with the latest version 2024.x.x). As many users reported, it will drain your pc's memory (I have a Macbook Pro and with Visual Studio for Mac it works even with 6 istances opened with no problem and at least two android emulators).
I paid for this software and also a lot considering what it does, I feel betrayed and scammed by this company. If you are considering buying the license to enhance your development experience, stay away from it as much as possible and look somewhere else!
P.S. they refuse to refund you, since the period in which you can request a refund lasts only one month, so if you are like me who paid 1 year, you are screwed. Give me back my money or at least the money for the months I did not use the software!

I'm a long time (paying) user of phpStorm and the quality of the product has become worse over the last couple of years. It has become so bloated that it is hardly usable any more.

A lot of bugs are never resolved (for instance the 'find in files' does not find everything) and they tend to change the whole product so often to something completely new that you are completely lost in the thousands of settings because everything is changed and on google there is only info about older versions. Also a number of bugs are solved, but more newer bugs emerge.

Their code suggestions and code generation always misses the mark, especially for quotes and brackets so it is best turned off. refactoring is a pain, and instead of including a `use` statement they often include the whole path in front of the class.

I am considering going to VS code instead.

Ils avaient des super produits, mais ca cetait avant.
Le debugger de clion ne marche tout simplement plus. (gdb s'arrète mais clion ne capte pas qu'il est arreté dans un breakpoint). Plus aucune intéret a utiliser ce produit. Pareil pour pycharm, 90% des features avec les notebooks sont buggées (tqdm, ...), instables, et des features n'existent tout simplement pas (interactive plots...).

JetBrains make great products - PyCharm always works, often when tools like VSCode struggle. Of course, this matters since there is a cost to maintaining the difference.

Still, the mark of a great organisation is aftercare. What companies do after they've sold you a product. I'm sure we've all experienced being ghosted after the money is paid.

Not JetBrains! I had an account problem, and several people worked tirelessly, responded quickly, and were proactive in solving my problem (and problems are rare, having been a user for several years).

Thank you JetBrains, your help has not gone unnoticed.

So i'm gonna be straight with the problem PyCharm is kinnda the worst IDE that may and maybe the worse one i had used it in my life. It has a great concept in the back but the optimization and the performance is the worst, it's really bad when i see that the ide is eating my ram more than Cyberpunk 2077 but the difference is that Cyberpunk works much but too much better than this IDE. Just imagine i have to wait like 10 minutes for a stupid bytecode programming language which is python to compile. I know that python is bad when it's about speed but don't use the same way of thinking for the IDE. Besides that i'm not using a russian cpu too so do something about the performance and the optimization. Such a great tool and you make it so bad.

Juste excellent ! J'utilise depuis plus de 7 ans les produits JetBrains suivants : IntelliJ, RubyMine, PyCharm, WebStorm, AppCode...

Have been using PHPstorm for 10+ years for PHP development and DB management and comparing it to IDEs from another vendors it seems to be most convenient and feature-full for me. Sometimes I do have trouble with project reindexing, but the good working strategy is to skip the update for a couple of months and do it only after a few patches :) The last thing that significantly improved my workflow is the HTTP client and its development in recent IDE versions. So for a reasonable price you can get an instrument that successfully replaces a bunch of others, but is not overloaded with useless features at the same time.

After many years of use and with the last (expensive) hike in price I have decided to move away from Jetbrains product suite. Constant problems with indexing where attributes are not recognised (angular). The issues are always there and hard to resolve with each update. I have moved to vscode where I'm not having to debug the IDE and its free.

While they might be expensive if you live in a lower income country the tools are some of the most pleasant and hassle free I have ever used for programming. Which often is the reason I decide to keep my subscription active.
I would recommend them, but also research them yourself. The best parts outside the IDE's are the perpetual fall-back licenses and the up to 40% discount you can receive from them for being a long term customer.

The tools they release every year seem to be progressively laggy. Trying to use multiple studios simultaneously is virtually impossible, as they consume all the available memory on your computer. I've also experienced constant issues with lost indexes. Additionally, their licensing system is not user-friendly. I have a license from my company and a private one; since I use two different studios, I'm constantly having to log in and out when switching between them.

Hi,

I noticed a few annoying bugs in PyCharm recently.

1. While opening the project folder, a new folder created in Explorer doesn't appear in the PyCharm window.
2. Newly created files like Github Readme don't appear in files and dir structure.

I managed to solve these problems by restarting PyCharm but this is a 1-star service for me with these bugs.

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EDIT:
Hi,

JetBrains replied to my review one day after posting it assuring that they are working on solving reported problems.

I find that a 5-star service because although PyCharm has some bugs the developer cares about customers and works on customer satisfaction from their products.

Thanks.

Products are fine (I use phpStorm from time to time) but their commercial policy sucks.

For instance, if you're a freelancer working as a sole trader, then you can buy licenses at a discounted price. If you're a freelancer working under your own company, privately-owned, no other shareholders, no staff or whatsoever, then you pay way more.

If you bought the "personal" license, which according to their policy can be used for commercial purposes too, then they refuse to provide you with a compliant VAT invoice, and kindly offer to upgrade to their "company" license which is nothing more than the same product at a 250% price level.

I get they are trying to differentiate their pricing depending how deep your pockets are, but they are using the wrong parameters to classify their customers. I hate this kind of practices, and will gladly buy from a competitor instead.

Using pycharm all the time.
Dislike that they put VAT over the price.