The increased utilization of solar energy has gained the attention of researchers to develop the solar chimney (SC) technology in recent years. Many studies have been conducted in this aear both experimentally and theoretically, whereas experimental studies are mainly focused on small-scale systems. This work provides a comprehensive and updated review that include most of the experimental studies, analytical and simulation works, the solar chimney applications, hybrid systems and geographical case studies based on extended references, citation of the updated works and the specified way of looking at different sections. The technological gaps in differnet sections are identified and a summary of suggestions is given for the future work, including more experimental works on the large-scale systems, and CFD analyses for optimization between the geometrical parameters and the output power. More studies on new applications of solar chimney technology including hybrid systems are also recommended.