Open Source Fritzing AlternativesTop Electronic Design Automation Tools & Circuit Simulators like Fritzing

The best open source alternative to Fritzing is KiCad. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Fritzing and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Fritzing are Velxio, LibrePCB, gEDA Project and tscircuit.

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  1. KiCad icon
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    KiCad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) - designing schematics of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards (PCB). KiCad is developed by Jean-Pierre Charras. And features an integrated environment between schematic capture, bill of...

    62 KiCad alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Docker
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  2. Velxio icon
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    Emulate Arduino, ESP32 & Raspberry Pi. in your browser. Write code, compile, and run on 19 real boards — Arduino Uno, ESP32, ESP32-C3, Raspberry Pi Pico, Raspberry Pi 3, and more. No hardware, no cloud, no limits.

    5 Velxio alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. LibrePCB icon
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    LibrePCB is a free EDA software to develop printed circuit boards. It’s currently under heavy development to bring out first stable releases as soon as possible.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  4. gEDA Project icon
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    The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. tscircuit icon
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    tscircuit is a framework for designing real electronics with Typescript and React. Your tscircuit code compiles into real-time previews for PCBs, schematics, 3D models and can be exported to fabrication files for manufacturing.

    9 tscircuit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. eSim icon
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    eSim (previously known as Oscad / FreeEDA) is an open source EDA tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. Horizon EDA icon
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    Horizon is a free EDA package. Contribute to carrotIndustries/horizon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. atopile icon
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    atopile is a language and toolchain to describe electronic circuit boards with code. By replacing the point and click schematic interface with code, we introduce software development workflows like reuse, validation and automation to the world of electronics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Python
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  9. TinyCAD icon
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    TinyCAD is an open source schematic capture program for MS Windows. Use TinyCAD to produce professional circuit diagrams and export net list information to PCB applications.

    33 TinyCAD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  10. pcb-rnd icon
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    pcb-rnd is a free/open source, flexible, modular Printed Circuit Board editor for design of professional and hobby boards. It has a strong UNIX mind set.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  11. Coulomb icon
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    Coulomb is a simple and elegant circuit simulator written using Java, Gtk4 and libadwaita.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  12. PCB Elegance icon
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    PCB Elegance is a suite of circuit board design tools for Windows. Including schematic capture, board layout, and manufacturing file generation. First released in 1998, it was proprietary software until 2012, when it was released as open source software under the GPL.

    24 PCB Elegance alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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