Code navigation
Quickly and efficiently move through your codebase. With features like cross-references and call trees, developers can easily locate and understand specific sections of code, improving productivity and troubleshooting.

Organize with Architectures
Rearrange your code into logical groupings, providing a structured view that allows for easy navigation and better understanding of relationships between components. Manage large codebases efficiently and streamline your development process.

Dependency analysis
Analyze dependencies between modules, classes, functions, and custom architectures. Make informed decisions regarding refactoring, optimization, and overall code organization.

Visualize with graphs
View dependency, butterfly, data flow, called by graphs and more. Customize the style of your graphs, use plugins to design your own unique graphs, or export and highlight graphs to collaborate with your team.

Compliance validation
Enforce internal coding standards and prove compliance with external standards like AUTOSAR and MISRA using CodeCheck. With extensive pre-defined code checks and the ability to write your own checks, ensure the correctness of your code and maintain compliance with ease.

Measure your code with Metrics
Understand has hundreds of cross-language industry standard software metrics built in, or use our API to create your own metrics. Metrics can be displayed visually and exported to share with your team.

Integrate your workflow with APIs
Benefit from extensive Python and Perl APIs that enable automation, custom reporting, and the development of specialized tools. Leverage the power of Understand to enhance your existing development workflows and unlock new possibilities.

Extend your reach with plugins
An extensive library of user submitted plugins lets you tailor Understand to your specific needs. Custom graphs, metrics, architectures and reports gives you unlimited options.

Seamless code editing
Our user-friendly and productive environment gives efficient editing capabilities, language support, powerful search and navigation tools, and seamless integration with other code analysis features.

Sync notes directly to your code
Annotations enhance your code documentation and collaboration. Add comments, requirements, reminders, and documentation to specific code sections, ensuring important information is easily accessible and synchronized.

Search your code
Search by entity kind, metric values, and in fields (comments, strings, identifiers). Find and replace code or automatically refactor.

Identify changes with ease
Effortlessly find and analyze differences between code versions, track changes across commits, and view detailed metrics and graphs that highlight modifications.

System Requirements & Supported OSes

Memory & Space Requirements

The latest versions of Understand takes about 600MB-1.1Gb of installation space, depending on the OS.

We recommend 1GB of RAM per Million lines of code, it will run on less, but it is much slower. The more memory the better.

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows x64 (Windows 10.1809 and later), 
• Linux 64bit (CentOS and RHEL 8.4, Ubuntu 20.04, and later)
• Mac OS (Big Sur 11 and later) Intel and Apple Silicon are both supported

Use the older builds of Understand if you need a version to run on an older machine:

Build 1139 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 10 and later), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 8.4, Ubuntu 20.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Mohave and later ).

Build 1096 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 7 and later), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 7.6, Ubuntu 18.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( High Sierra and later ).

Build 1077 and older will run on Windows x64 and x86 ( Windows 7 and later ), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 7.4, Ubuntu 16.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Sierra and later ).