Valuable non-bundled plugins

CLion Help

Bundles the entire CLion web help for offline use.

Keymap exporter

Prints the PDF version of the selected CLion keymap.

Key Promoter X

Shows keystroke equivalents to mouse presses:

Main Menu Toggler

Switches visibility of the main menu on and off by a single action or a shortcut.

Frame Switcher

Lets you switch between projects, windows, and frames, alternatively to Alt+Tab and the View menu. The switcher works even with multiple IDE instances, and lets you assign shortcuts to various actions, customizing or expanding the pre-defined shortcut set.

Active Tab Highlighter

Highlights the currently active tab. The highlighting color is easily configurable, which is especially useful for the Darcula scheme.

Focus on Active Task

Filters the project tree to show only the currently opened and related paths and files.

Bazel

Lets you import a Bazel BUILD file (with its own language supported in CLion) and run Bazel configurations.

Compiler Explorer plugin

Lets you work with Compiler Explorer right from CLion: you can view compilation results got from various remote compilers and easily switch between them. The plugin shows the list of sources taken from your project tree and provides a way to pass compiler flags and set additional options to tune the disassembly layout for your needs.

Grep Console

Helps in analyzing logs and parsing console output. Grepping means searching for plain-text lines that contain a match to some regular expression. The plugin enables you to grep the application output, highlight and filter the results, and even change the output or execute an action upon a match:

UndoDB

Integrates the Undo’s record, rewind and replay technology for Linux C/C++ applications in CLion.

With Undo, you can record the program’s execution down to single instruction for further replay and analysis. This way, the debugger gets reversible: you can step forwards and backwards in your code and see exactly what is happening, leading up to easier bug capturing. Take a look at this blog post to find out more on using Undo in CLion.

Run Configuration as Action

Lets you register Run/Debug configurations as actions in CLion, and call them via shortcuts or additional toolbar buttons.

CPU Usage Indicator

Adds the CPU load indicator to the status bar, lets you get a thread dump and configure the settings of the Performance Watcher (which is the CLion’s frozen UI thread dumper):

Statistics

Collects the overall project-level statistics: project files with line counts, sorted by extension and size.

Code::Stats

Tracks the changes you make in project files and detects the syntax of the language you use. The results are presented in infographics of your XPs (Experience Points, roughly the amount of keystrokes) for different languages.

Darkyen’s Time Tracker

Implements simple time management technique of tracking the time you actually spend on a project: it adds a tracking bar widget that you manually start for counting.

Pomodoro-tm

Helps you manage the time spent on a task using Pomodoro Technique.

Git Time Metric

Tracks the time of reading and working on the code that you store in a Git repository.

WakaTime

Performs time tracking and collects the language, OS, branch/commit, and other statistics of your work session.