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By Aaron Bond · VS Code Marketplace · Formatters

Improve your code commenting by annotating with alert, informational, TODOs, and more!

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 19, 2026

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.

Installs
10,732,912
Official API · Oct 19, 2026
7-day growth
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90-day growth
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Rank
#95
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

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

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

Where Better Comments sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,501 listings · 126 pages · page 5, #15 (overall #95)
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Formatters287 listings · 15 pages · page 1, #19 (overall #19)
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Adoption over time

Better Comments installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 10,732,912 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.Better CommentsInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days10,732,912installs10.7M10.7M10.7M10.7M10.7M10.7M10.7MJul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Better Comments installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 10,732,912 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

Better Comments installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Better CommentsInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace10,732,912installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
Better Comments installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

Better Comments VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #95 (by installs).Better CommentsVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#95current rank#93#94#95#96#97Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
Better Comments VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #95 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

Better Comments ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 214 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.Better CommentsRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days214ratings190200210220230240Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Better Comments ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 214 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (4)
Recent installs observations for Better Comments
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
10,732,912+1.9K
10,731,061+1.3K
10,729,740+2.2K
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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.