Understand Alternatives

Understand is described as '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)' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Understand for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Steam apps. The best Understand 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 Understand are Woboq Code Browser, Source-Navigator NG, Microsoft Application Inspector and JArchitect.

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Understand alternatives page was last updated Nov 26, 2023
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  1. Source Insight icon
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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
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    • Windows
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    • Source Insight is the most popular Windows alternative to Understand.

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

    • Source Insight is Paid and ProprietaryUnderstand is also Paid and Proprietary
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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.

    35 Blink grep alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Blink grep Features

    1.  File content indexing
    2.  Indexed search
    3.  Code Search
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    • Blink grep is the most popular Linux alternative to Understand.

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

    • Blink grep is Free and Open SourceUnderstand is Paid and Proprietary
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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.

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    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    • CodeCompass is Free and Open SourceUnderstand is Paid and Proprietary
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    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.

    8 Woboq Code Browser alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Macro expansions
    Qt support
    +1
    Inheritance diagrams
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    • Woboq Code Browser is the most popular Web-based & Mac alternative to Understand.

    • Woboq Code Browser is Freemium and ProprietaryUnderstand is Paid and Proprietary
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    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.

    18 Source-Navigator NG alternatives
    the symbol browser showing a file selection with wildcards

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Source-Navigator NG Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  TCL
    the editor window with default highlighting colours
    the xref dialog displaying referenced functions (multi-level)
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    the grep pane using a regexp search pattern and highlighting
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    Microsoft Application Inspector

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    Application Inspector is a source code analyzer built for surfacing features of interest and other characteristics to answer the question "What's in it" using static analysis with a json based rules engine.

    17 Microsoft Application Inspector alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. JArchitect icon
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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.

    4 JArchitect alternatives
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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  10. CodeNavigator icon
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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.

    15 CodeNavigator alternatives
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    • iPad
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    • CodeNavigator is the most popular iPad alternative to Understand.

    • CodeNavigator is Paid and ProprietaryUnderstand is also Paid and Proprietary
  11. CodeWalker icon
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    CodeWalker

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    CodeWalker™ is a developer tool that shows you how your source code fits together, how it's structured, and how it executes. Instantly compare complex structures, find unintentional recursion, and just see how your code actually works, in 2D and 3D modes. It's like GPS for your code.

    7 CodeWalker alternatives
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    • Steam
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    ftnchek

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    ftnchek is a static analyzer for Fortran 77 programs. It is designed to detect certain errors in a Fortran program that a compiler usually does not.

    6 ftnchek alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    ftnchek Features

    1.  Static analysis
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  13. CodeXCavator

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    Download CodeXCavator - code indexing and search for free. Source code indexing and full text search tool based on Lucene. The CodeXCavator is a tool for source code indexing, tagging, and fast full-text search. It consists of two applications:

    2 CodeXCavator alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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