Sourcetrail Alternatives

Sourcetrail is described as 'Software developers spend up to 70 percent of their time figuring out how existing source code works, but common code editing tools offer little help for this task. Sourcetrail helps software engineers explore and navigate unknown source code quickly and thoroughly by combining' and is an app in the development category. There are nine alternatives to Sourcetrail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Sourcetrail alternative is Woboq Code Browser, which is free. Other great apps like Sourcetrail are Source Insight, Understand, Blink grep and CodeCompass.

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  1. Woboq Code Browser icon

    Woboq Code Browser

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    Woboq Code Browser is a web-based C and C++ code browser that uses a desktop component to generate static HTML pages for code analysis. It focuses on improving the code navigation with proper semantic highlighting and tooltips.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Woboq Code Browser is the most popular Web-based, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • Woboq Code Browser is the most popular free alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • Woboq Code Browser is Freemium and ProprietarySourcetrail is Free and Open Source
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    Source Insight

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    Source Insight is an advanced code editor and browser with built-in analysis for C/C++, C#, and Java programs.

    21 Source Insight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Source Insight is the most popular Windows alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • Source Insight is the most popular commercial alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • Source Insight is Paid and ProprietarySourcetrail is Free and Open Source
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    Understand

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    Understand is a static analysis tool for maintaining, measuring, and analyzing critical or large code bases. Supports programming languages (C/C++, C#, FORTRAN, Java, JOVIAL, Pascal, PL/M, VHDL, Cobol) and web languages (PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).

    11 Understand alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Understand has nearly same functionality, but supports much more languages (Python, JS, Pascal, Assembly, PHP & more).

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    • Understand is Paid and ProprietarySourcetrail is Free and Open Source
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    Blink grep

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    GUI of indexed grep for source code, files locator, search and replace. Switch differnt projects and start searching. Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Blink grep is the most popular Open Source alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • Blink grep is Free and Open SourceSourcetrail is also Free and Open Source
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    CodeCompass

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    CodeCompass is an extensible code comprehension tool with a Python script that helps you to parse projects, manage workspaces, start web server and run CodeChecker in an easy way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Source-Navigator NG icon

    Source-Navigator NG

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    Source-Navigator NG is a source code analysis tool. With it, you can edit your source code, display relationships between classes and functions and members, and display call trees. you can navigate your source code and easily get to declarations or implementations of functions, v.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    I provides metrics to the code. Wheras Sourcetrails helps to explore the code.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Source-Navigator NG is Free and Open SourceSourcetrail is also Free and Open Source
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    PhpMetrics

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    PhpMetrics provides metrics about PHP project and classes, with beautiful and readable HTML report.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    JArchitect

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    JArchitect is a tool that simplifies managing a complex Java code base. Architects and developers can analyze code structure, specify design rules, do effective code reviews and master evolution by comparing different versions of the code.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    CodeNavigator

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    CodeNavigator is a developer's tool for browsing source code using CScope. It can help you to understand the structure of the code very easily and also include syntax highlighting support for many coding languages.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
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    • CodeNavigator is the most popular iPad alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • CodeNavigator is Paid and ProprietarySourcetrail is Free and Open Source
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