PhpStorm
Reviews
Star rating
Rank in PHP Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
Pros and cons
Pros
- IDE Features
- Collaboration
- Fast Development
- Features
- Ease of Use
- Debugging
Cons
- Expensive
- Slow Loading
- Slow Performance
- High Resource Usage
- High System Requirements
Traffic & LLM citations
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Key stats
Adoption by company size
| Segment | Share of reviews |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 63.4% |
| Mid-Market | 26.6% |
| Enterprise | 10.0% |
Quarterly history
| Quarter | Reviews | Star rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q3 | 1 | 5.0 |
| 2026 Q1 | 2 | 3.8 |
| 2026 Q2 | 3 | 4.8 |
Satisfaction ratings
What reviewers say
All-In-One IDE for PHP and Beyond
“I like using PhpStorm because it's not only great for PHP development with Symfony and Twig, but I can also easily use it for Vue integration. The Git and database functionality is well featured, and it fully integrates with GitHub Copilot. The Junie AI tool is awesome, and I fin”
A Powerful IDE for Efficient PHP Development In complex projects
“PHPStorm help all our team to working extensively on FormaLMS. Has a lot of unbealiveble functionalities such us advanced autocompletion and insightful code analysis that significantly enhances productivity. PhpStorm's ecosystem of plugins like 'Php Inspections' and some paid on”
Complete tool for PHP programming
“PHP Storm integrates database access natively, greatly helping programming in a practical way. Creating an application using an existing database is extremely easy with the help that the tool provides. Since I use AskCodi to code, using a widget in PHP Storm helps me even more ”