What is the most used IDE?

 The Top IDE Index is created by analyzing how often IDEs' download page are searched on Google

The more an IDE is searched, the more popular the IDE is assumed to be. The raw data comes from Google Trends.

If you believe in collective wisdom, the Top IDE index can help you decide which IDE to use for your software development project.

Worldwide, Jul 2021 compared to a year ago:

Rank	Change	IDE	Share	Trend
1		Visual Studio	28.21 %	+2.9 %
2		Eclipse	14.39 %	-3.3 %
3		Visual Studio Code	10.94 %	+3.2 %
4		Android Studio	9.64 %	-3.4 %
5		pyCharm	8.16 %	+1.3 %
6		IntelliJ	6.74 %	+1.0 %
7		NetBeans	5.16 %	-0.3 %
8		Sublime Text	3.69 %	-0.2 %
9		Xcode	3.38 %	-0.9 %
10		Atom	3.32 %	-0.3 %
11		Code::Blocks	2.51 %	+0.6 %
12		Vim	0.87 %	-0.0 %
13		Xamarin	0.5 %	-0.1 %
14		PhpStorm	0.46 %	-0.1 %
15		geany	0.44 %	+0.2 %
16		Komodo	0.36 %	-0.1 %
17		Qt Creator	0.34 %	-0.0 %
18		Emacs	0.21 %	-0.1 %
19		JDeveloper	0.15 %	-0.1 %
20		RAD Studio	0.1 %	-0.0 %
21		JCreator	0.07 %	-0.0 %
22		Aptana	0.07 %	+0.0 %
23		MonoDevelop	0.06 %	-0.0 %
24		SharpDevelop	0.05 %	-0.0 %
25		Light Table	0.04 %	-0.1 %
26		RubyMine	0.04 %	-0.0 %
27		Eric Python	0.03 %	-0.0 %
28		DrJava	0.02 %	-0.1 %
29		Monkey Studio	0.02 %	-0.0 %
30		Coda 2	0.02 %	+0.0 %
31		Zend Studio	0.01 %	+0.0 %
© Pierre Carbonnelle, 2020

Worldwide, Visual Studio is the most popular IDE, Visual Studio Code grew the most in the last 5 years (9.9%) and Eclipse lost the most (-14.1%)

Date	Visual Studio	Eclipse	Visual Studio Code
Jul 1, 2004	0.267	36.26%	0.007
Aug 1, 2004	0.269	38.74%	0.005
Sep 1, 2004	0.267	39.68%	0.006
Oct 1, 2004	0.267	40.8%	0.007
Nov 1, 2004	0.256	42.03%	0.008
Dec 1, 2004	0.257	42.73%	0.007
Jan 1, 2005	0.253	43.23%	0.006
Feb 1, 2005	0.257	42.26%	0.006
Mar 1, 2005	0.251	43.27%	0.005
Apr 1, 2005	0.25	43.1%	0.003
May 1, 2005	0.256	43.29%	0.002
Jun 1, 2005	0.256	43.76%	0.004
Jul 1, 2005	0.256	44.54%	0.003
Aug 1, 2005	0.254	45.31%	0.006
Sep 1, 2005	0.257	45.76%	0.006
Oct 1, 2005	0.253	45.58%	0.009
Nov 1, 2005	0.252	45.91%	0.009
Dec 1, 2005	0.258	45.91%	0.008
Jan 1, 2006	0.269	45.35%	0.007
Feb 1, 2006	0.275	44.54%	0.006
Mar 1, 2006	0.277	43.92%	0.006
Apr 1, 2006	0.28	44.59%	0.004
May 1, 2006	0.283	43.99%	0.005
Jun 1, 2006	0.277	44.28%	0.005
Jul 1, 2006	0.274	44.25%	0.006
Aug 1, 2006	0.272	44.68%	0.006
Sep 1, 2006	0.268	44.88%	0.006
Oct 1, 2006	0.275	44.65%	0.006
Nov 1, 2006	0.27	44.68%	0.007
Dec 1, 2006	0.271	44.35%	0.006
Jan 1, 2007	0.271	44.12%	0.007
Feb 1, 2007	0.268	44.2%	0.006
Mar 1, 2007	0.275	44.03%	0.006
Apr 1, 2007	0.271	44.55%	0.006
May 1, 2007	0.275	44.81%	0.005
Jun 1, 2007	0.276	45.55%	0.004
Jul 1, 2007	0.275	46.09%	0.003
Aug 1, 2007	0.274	46.47%	0.003
Sep 1, 2007	0.272	46.87%	0.003
Oct 1, 2007	0.278	45.94%	0.003
Nov 1, 2007	0.28	45.9%	0.003
Dec 1, 2007	0.287	44.95%	0.004
Jan 1, 2008	0.294	43.96%	0.004
Feb 1, 2008	0.304	42.88%	0.004
Mar 1, 2008	0.309	41.83%	0.005
Apr 1, 2008	0.314	41.25%	0.005
May 1, 2008	0.316	40.5%	0.005
Jun 1, 2008	0.317	40.22%	0.006
Jul 1, 2008	0.317	40.39%	0.006
Aug 1, 2008	0.316	40.52%	0.006
Sep 1, 2008	0.319	40.38%	0.006
Oct 1, 2008	0.319	40.66%	0.006
Nov 1, 2008	0.32	40.42%	0.006
Dec 1, 2008	0.318	40.61%	0.005
Jan 1, 2009	0.317	40.6%	0.005
Feb 1, 2009	0.316	40.98%	0.005
Mar 1, 2009	0.313	40.87%	0.006
Apr 1, 2009	0.312	40.54%	0.006
May 1, 2009	0.312	41.16%	0.006
Jun 1, 2009	0.316	41.05%	0.006
Jul 1, 2009	0.313	41.44%	0.006
Aug 1, 2009	0.311	41.23%	0.005
Sep 1, 2009	0.308	41.47%	0.005
Oct 1, 2009	0.304	41.85%	0.005
Nov 1, 2009	0.307	41.06%	0.005
Dec 1, 2009	0.304	41.19%	0.005
Jan 1, 2010	0.305	41%	0.005
Feb 1, 2010	0.303	40.69%	0.006
Mar 1, 2010	0.311	40.04%	0.006
Apr 1, 2010	0.314	40%	0.006
May 1, 2010	0.32	39.83%	0.006
Jun 1, 2010	0.319	39.6%	0.006
Jul 1, 2010	0.302	42.52%	0.006
Aug 1, 2010	0.281	47.14%	0.005
Sep 1, 2010	0.261	50.2%	0.005
Oct 1, 2010	0.251	51.59%	0.005
Nov 1, 2010	0.234	53.2%	0.005
Dec 1, 2010	0.224	53.95%	0.005
Jan 1, 2011	0.231	51.54%	0.006
Feb 1, 2011	0.252	47.46%	0.006
Mar 1, 2011	0.266	45.1%	0.007
Apr 1, 2011	0.272	43.28%	0.007
May 1, 2011	0.277	42.23%	0.007
Jun 1, 2011	0.284	41.6%	0.007
Jul 1, 2011	0.287	41.83%	0.006
Aug 1, 2011	0.287	41.63%	0.006
Sep 1, 2011	0.282	42.07%	0.006
Oct 1, 2011	0.282	42.67%	0.006
Nov 1, 2011	0.276	43.22%	0.005
Dec 1, 2011	0.271	44.42%	0.004
Jan 1, 2012	0.27	44.44%	0.004
Feb 1, 2012	0.267	44.42%	0.004
Mar 1, 2012	0.271	44.02%	0.004
Apr 1, 2012	0.267	43.98%	0.005
May 1, 2012	0.27	43.74%	0.006
Jun 1, 2012	0.274	42.75%	0.006
Jul 1, 2012	0.275	41.97%	0.007
Aug 1, 2012	0.278	41.99%	0.007
Sep 1, 2012	0.278	42.03%	0.007
Oct 1, 2012	0.281	41.63%	0.007
Nov 1, 2012	0.284	41.29%	0.007
Dec 1, 2012	0.283	41.22%	0.007
Jan 1, 2013	0.287	41.19%	0.007
Feb 1, 2013	0.292	40.6%	0.007
Mar 1, 2013	0.292	40.27%	0.007
Apr 1, 2013	0.291	40.37%	0.007
May 1, 2013	0.291	40.3%	0.007
Jun 1, 2013	0.292	39.76%	0.006
Jul 1, 2013	0.29	39.34%	0.007
Aug 1, 2013	0.288	38.99%	0.007
Sep 1, 2013	0.288	38.77%	0.007
Oct 1, 2013	0.287	38.34%	0.008
Nov 1, 2013	0.288	37.94%	0.007
Dec 1, 2013	0.292	37.7%	0.008
Jan 1, 2014	0.293	37.35%	0.008
Feb 1, 2014	0.293	37.11%	0.008
Mar 1, 2014	0.291	37.05%	0.008
Apr 1, 2014	0.289	36.79%	0.007
May 1, 2014	0.285	36.85%	0.008
Jun 1, 2014	0.282	36.94%	0.008
Jul 1, 2014	0.276	37.16%	0.007
Aug 1, 2014	0.271	37.18%	0.007
Sep 1, 2014	0.27	37.03%	0.007
Oct 1, 2014	0.27	36.91%	0.007
Nov 1, 2014	0.265	36.6%	0.007
Dec 1, 2014	0.263	36.34%	0.007
Jan 1, 2015	0.263	35.71%	0.007
Feb 1, 2015	0.262	35.64%	0.006
Mar 1, 2015	0.259	35.24%	0.007
Apr 1, 2015	0.257	35.46%	0.007
May 1, 2015	0.258	35.14%	0.008
Jun 1, 2015	0.256	34.56%	0.009
Jul 1, 2015	0.254	34.42%	0.009
Aug 1, 2015	0.257	33.85%	0.009
Sep 1, 2015	0.257	33.45%	0.01
Oct 1, 2015	0.255	32.7%	0.01
Nov 1, 2015	0.254	32.27%	0.01
Dec 1, 2015	0.252	31.7%	0.01
Jan 1, 2016	0.253	30.96%	0.01
Feb 1, 2016	0.25	30.4%	0.01
Mar 1, 2016	0.251	29.83%	0.011
Apr 1, 2016	0.252	29.34%	0.011
May 1, 2016	0.253	28.85%	0.011
Jun 1, 2016	0.253	28.52%	0.011
Jul 1, 2016	0.251	28.48%	0.011
Aug 1, 2016	0.247	28.41%	0.011
Sep 1, 2016	0.244	28.25%	0.011
Oct 1, 2016	0.242	28.1%	0.012
Nov 1, 2016	0.241	28.13%	0.012
Dec 1, 2016	0.243	27.93%	0.013
Jan 1, 2017	0.245	27.41%	0.014
Feb 1, 2017	0.248	27.11%	0.016
Mar 1, 2017	0.25	27.02%	0.017
Apr 1, 2017	0.255	26.7%	0.017
May 1, 2017	0.258	26.29%	0.018
Jun 1, 2017	0.261	26.18%	0.019
Jul 1, 2017	0.262	26.05%	0.02
Aug 1, 2017	0.264	26.02%	0.021
Sep 1, 2017	0.263	26.56%	0.022
Oct 1, 2017	0.261	26.37%	0.024
Nov 1, 2017	0.261	26%	0.024
Dec 1, 2017	0.26	25.61%	0.026
Jan 1, 2018	0.261	25.28%	0.027
Feb 1, 2018	0.259	25.09%	0.028
Mar 1, 2018	0.26	24.12%	0.03
Apr 1, 2018	0.26	24.07%	0.031
May 1, 2018	0.257	24.13%	0.033
Jun 1, 2018	0.253	24.14%	0.034
Jul 1, 2018	0.245	23.8%	0.035
Aug 1, 2018	0.243	23.59%	0.037
Sep 1, 2018	0.239	23.34%	0.039
Oct 1, 2018	0.234	23.24%	0.04
Nov 1, 2018	0.23	22.68%	0.04
Dec 1, 2018	0.228	22.22%	0.041
Jan 1, 2019	0.23	22.16%	0.043
Feb 1, 2019	0.23	21.67%	0.044
Mar 1, 2019	0.228	21.3%	0.045
Apr 1, 2019	0.229	20.84%	0.045
May 1, 2019	0.229	20.29%	0.046
Jun 1, 2019	0.225	19.79%	0.046
Jul 1, 2019	0.221	19.21%	0.047
Aug 1, 2019	0.218	18.83%	0.047
Sep 1, 2019	0.218	18.29%	0.049
Oct 1, 2019	0.216	17.74%	0.051
Nov 1, 2019	0.217	17.42%	0.053
Dec 1, 2019	0.222	17.3%	0.056
Jan 1, 2020	0.228	17.46%	0.058
Feb 1, 2020	0.232	17.36%	0.061
Mar 1, 2020	0.24	17.45%	0.064
Apr 1, 2020	0.246	17.35%	0.067
May 1, 2020	0.249	17.65%	0.071
Jun 1, 2020	0.251	17.92%	0.074
Jul 1, 2020	0.253	17.68%	0.078
Aug 1, 2020	0.257	17.35%	0.082
Sep 1, 2020	0.255	17.02%	0.084
Oct 1, 2020	0.254	16.85%	0.087
Nov 1, 2020	0.258	16.79%	0.088
Dec 1, 2020	0.262	16.29%	0.092
Jan 1, 2021	0.263	16.08%	0.093
Feb 1, 2021	0.265	15.78%	0.094
Mar 1, 2021	0.27	15.48%	0.098
Apr 1, 2021	0.274	15.21%	0.1
May 1, 2021	0.277	14.74%	0.104
Jun 1, 2021	0.278	14.87%	0.104
Jul 1, 2021	0.282	14.39%	0.109

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