What are the best code visualization and analysis tools?

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Best code visualization and analysis tools	Price	Platforms	Technology
-- Sourcetrail	Free	Windows, Linux, Mac	C++
-- Understand	Paid	-	-
-- Gource	Free	-	-
-- Embold	Free / paid	Web, Windows, Linux, Docker	-
-- Visustin	Free / paid	Windows	-

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Understand

NDepend

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score 5 · Answer 2

Gource

Top Pro

Looks cool

Easily see how git projects grew with visuals that wow. See More

Top Con

Doesn't support multiple repos

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Beautiful

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score 3 · Answer 3

Embold

Top Pro

IDE plugins

Plugins for: Visual Studio (C#), Intellij IDEA (Java), Android Studio (Java). See More

Top Con

Expensive

RickZeeland's Experience

Embold is a general purpose analyzer that finds critical code issues before they become roadblocks. There is a free version for open-source projects. Supported languages: C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Objective-C, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Kotlin, Solidity, SQL. See More

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score 4 · Answer 4

Visustin

score 2 · Answer 5

moose

Top Pro

Is a well established project that has been working for a long time

Top Pro

Active Community

The mailing list has many helpful participants. See More

Top Pro

Some great visualisations

Top Pro

Supports multiple languages

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score 2 · Answer 6

Code Graph

Top Con

Long names are truncated

Could not get any decent output when used on a C# solution. See More

Top Pro

Free

RickZeeland's Experience

Free visualization tool for Visual Studio, it allows to explore the code for C/C++, C#, Python and other languages. See More

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Platforms:Windows

Top Con

No manual

For beginners it is totally unclear where to begin. See More

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score 2 · Answer 7

Designite

Top Pro

Free version

RickZeeland's Experience

Designite analyzes C# and Java code and detects software quality issues. See More

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Platforms:Windows

Top Pro

Visual Studio extension

Top Pro

Java version

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score 1 · Answer 8

Coverity

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score 1 · Answer 9

Sotograph

Top Con

Expensive

RickZeeland's Experience

Sotograph is currently able to analyze ABAP/ABAPObjects, PHP, C/C++, C#, Typescript and Java. See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux

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score 1 · Answer 10

Code Property Graph

Top Pro

Accurate

High level of accuracy in finding vulnerabilities. See More

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Platforms:Linux

score 1 · Answer 11

CodeCity

Top Pro

Free

Free for non-commercial use. See More

Top Con

Not mature

This is still an immature project. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

Code City is a tool that uses classes or interfaces as references to buildings, it supports several languages. The authors mention that lower level representation is needed to improve Code City. See More

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My Recommendation for Sourcetrail

My Recommendation for Sourcetrail

Free

Customization

My Recommendation for Understand

My Recommendation for Understand

My Recommendation for Gource

My Recommendation for Gource

Looks cool

Doesn't support multiple repos

Beautiful

My Recommendation for Embold

My Recommendation for Embold

IDE plugins

Expensive

My Recommendation for Visustin

My Recommendation for Visustin

My Recommendation for moose

My Recommendation for moose

Is a well established project that has been working for a long time

Active Community

Some great visualisations

Supports multiple languages

My Recommendation for NDepend

My Recommendation for NDepend

My Recommendation for Code Graph

My Recommendation for Code Graph

Long names are truncated

Free

No manual

My Recommendation for Designite

My Recommendation for Designite

Free version

Visual Studio extension

Java version

My Recommendation for Coverity

My Recommendation for Coverity

My Recommendation for Sotograph

My Recommendation for Sotograph

Expensive

My Recommendation for Python

My Recommendation for Python

My Recommendation for Code Property Graph

My Recommendation for Code Property Graph

Accurate

My Recommendation for CodeCity

My Recommendation for CodeCity

Free

Not mature

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