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 Source Insight. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Blink grep or CodeCompass. Other great apps like Sourcetrail are Understand, Woboq Code Browser, Source-Navigator NG and PhpMetrics.

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Sourcetrail alternatives page was last updated Dec 10, 2021
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  1. Source Insight icon
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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

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    • Windows

    Source Insight VS Sourcetrail

     
    • 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
  2. Understand icon
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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

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Understand Features

    1.  Metrics
    2.  Static analysis

    Understand VS Sourcetrail

     
    Comments about Understand as an Alternative to Sourcetrail
    S_talker
    Positive Aug 29, 2018
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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 the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • Understand is Paid and ProprietarySourcetrail is Free and Open Source
  3. Blink grep icon
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Blink grep Features

    1.  File content indexing
    2.  Indexed search
    3.  Code Search

    Blink grep VS Sourcetrail

     
    • Blink grep is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • Blink grep is Free and Open SourceSourcetrail is also Free and Open Source
  4. CodeCompass icon
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    CodeCompass VS Sourcetrail

     
    • CodeCompass is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • CodeCompass is Free and Open SourceSourcetrail is also Free and Open Source
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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.

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    Woboq Code Browser VS Sourcetrail

     
    • Woboq Code Browser is the most popular Web-based alternative to Sourcetrail.

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Source-Navigator NG Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  TCL

    Source-Navigator NG VS Sourcetrail

     
    Comments about Source-Navigator NG as an Alternative to Sourcetrail
    Guest
    Negative Dec 20, 2020
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    I provides metrics to the code. Wheras Sourcetrails helps to explore the code.

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    • Source-Navigator NG is Free and Open SourceSourcetrail is also Free and Open Source
  7. PhpMetrics icon
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    PhpMetrics provides metrics about PHP project and classes, with beautiful and readable HTML report.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    PhpMetrics Features

    1.  Metrics
    2.  Static Code Analysis

    PhpMetrics VS Sourcetrail

     
  8. JArchitect icon
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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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    JArchitect VS Sourcetrail

     
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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.

    License model

    Platforms

    • iPad

    CodeNavigator VS Sourcetrail

     
    • CodeNavigator is the most popular iPad alternative to Sourcetrail.

    • CodeNavigator is Paid and ProprietarySourcetrail is Free and Open Source
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