Better Comments installs statistics
By Aaron Bond · VS Code Marketplace · Formatters
Improve your code commenting by annotating with alert, informational, TODOs, and more!
Better Comments has 10,732,912 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #95 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 214 ratings.
PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.
Rating: 4.83 / 5 from 214 ratings
About Better Comments
Better Comments
The Better Comments extension will help you create more human-friendly comments in your code. With this extension, you will be able to categorise your annotations into: • Alerts • Queries • TODOs • Highlights • Commented out code can also be styled to make it clear the code shouldn't be there • Any other comment styles you'd like can be specified in the settings
Configuration
This extension can be configured in User Settings or Workspace settings.
"better-comments.multilineComments": true This setting will control whether multiline comments are styled using the annotation tags. When false, multiline comments will be presented without decoration.
"better-comments.highlightPlainText": false This setting will control whether comments in a plain text file are styled using the annotation tags. When true, the tags (defaults: ! * ? //) will be detected if they're the first character on a line.
better-comments.tags The tags are the characters or sequences used to mark a comment for decoration. The default 5 can be modified to change the colors, and more can be added.
Supported Languages
• Ada • AL • Apex • AsciiDoc • BrightScript • C • C# • C++ • ColdFusion • Clojure • COBOL • CoffeeScript • CSS • Dart • Dockerfile • Elixir • Elm • Erlang • F# • Fortran • gdscript • GenStat • Go • GraphQL • Groovy • Haskell • Haxe • HiveQL • HTML • Java • JavaScript • JavaScript React • JSON with comments • Julia • Kotlin • LaTex (inlc. Bibtex/Biblatex) • Less • Lisp • Lua • Makefile • Markdown • Nim • MATLAB • Objective-C • Objective-C++ • Pascal • Perl • Perl 6 • PHP • Pig • PlantUML • PL/SQL • PowerShell • Puppet • Python • R • Racket • Ruby • Rust • SAS • Sass • Scala • SCSS • ShaderLab • ShellScript • SQL • STATA • Stylus • Svelte • Swift • Tcl • Terraform • Twig • TypeScript • TypeScript React • Verilog • Visual Basic • Vue.js • XML • YAML
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=aaron-bond.better-comments. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.