JetBrains Rider vs. Xcode

JetBrains Rider

JetBrains Rider

39 Reviews and Ratings

Xcode

13 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Rider	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	JetBrains supports .NET development with Rider, a .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.	$14.90 per month per user
Xcode	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Xcode is an IDE used to develop, test, and distribute apps across all Apple platforms, featuring Swift and SwiftUI with a multiplatform app experience, enhanced editor features to help users code faster.	N/A

Pricing

JetBrains Rider

Xcode

Editions & Modules

For Individuals: $149
per year per user
dotUltimate for Individual: $169
per year per user
All Products Pack for Individuals: $289
per year per user
For Organizations: $419
per year per user
dotUltimate for Organizations: $469
per year per user
All Products Pack for Organizations: $779
per year per user

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Rider	Xcode
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

dotUltimate: All .NET tools, ReSharper C++ and JetBrains Rider, together in one pack

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	JetBrains Rider	Xcode
Considered Both Products	Rider No answer on this topic	Xcode Verified User Professional Chose Xcode Xcode is a much easier to use and full featured IDE than many of the competitors. It also is a way better experience to use. Much better looking in general. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Git repositories Pro Cost effective Pro Options are available	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Studio code Minus Visual studio code Minus Way to get	No answers on this topic

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	JetBrains Rider	Xcode
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User Ratings
	JetBrains Rider	Xcode
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (6 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	JetBrains Rider	Xcode
Likelihood to Recommend	JetBrains Initially you may think it’s not worth paying and that there are better free options, which is definitely a lie we once tried to live with. It has everything you may ever need in .NET world, code analysis and debugging works super well and all the SQL/noSQL related integrations are just next level compared to the competition. It’s worth every penny. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Apple We are huge advocates of native iOS development and there is just real alternative when it comes to developing in Swift or Objective-C for the iPhone and iPad Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	JetBrains Provides a smooth, efficient IDE for developing .NET applications. Performance has been much better than Visual Studio in my experience. Integrated refactoring tools are really comprehensive and useful. Integrates with other JetBrains products such as TeamCity, Upsource, dotTrace, etc. Incentivized Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Apple Debugging Profiling Great IDE Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	JetBrains Startup time. It takes a while to index big projects. Rarely it loses the intellisense and the only way to get it back is by restarting. Incentivized Luiz Wendt Software Engineer Read full review	Apple Sometimes it can be really slow There are a lot of features we don't use I use the interface builder tools were better at visualizing what the UI will look like Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	JetBrains Due to the performance and productivity benefits we get with Rider, we will continue to use it for the foreseeable future. Incentivized Anthony Aziz Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Apple No answers on this topic
Usability	JetBrains Rider is a great IDE with extensive C# refactoring support and .NET-specific knowledge. This is great for building .NET applications but for our purposes, the Unity specific suggestions are really helpful. JetBrains Rider is great as an editing and debugging environment. It reliably connects to the Unity editor and allows debugging, which some IDEs are not as reliable at doing. Incentivized Rajan Tande Chief Technology Officer Read full review	Apple No answers on this topic
Support Rating	JetBrains The support forums and knowledge base are extensive and the JetBrains support staff respond quickly to new posts and help resolve issues. There is also a publicly accessible issue tracking system, which allows you to stay on top of any bug fixes or enhancement requests. Incentivized Rajan Tande Chief Technology Officer Read full review	Apple No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	JetBrains Rider is hands down smoother and way less glitchy than Visual Studio Enterprise. There are way more refactoring capabilities and spell check so that your code is readable, maintainable, and easy to follow. Since Rider is cross-platform, our developers are no longer constrained to only using Windows. We can now get a familiar development environment across Mac, Windows, or Linux! Incentivized Aaron Smith Senior Software Developer Read full review	Apple Xcode is a much easier to use and full featured IDE than many of the competitors. It also is a way better experience to use. Much better looking in general Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	JetBrains All people using the same IDE makes it much easier to ramp-up and collaborate Development and maintainment can be done in a more efficient way Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Apple It's helped us gain worldwide distribution of our native iOS app It's allowed us to build a high performance experience It has allowed us to build stable software by helping us write unit tests Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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