ACD/ChemSketch Alternatives for Linux

ACD/ChemSketch is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Chemaxon Marvin, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to ACD/ChemSketch and eight of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to ACD/ChemSketch are Avogadro, BKchem, Gnome Chemistry Utils and ChemDoodle.

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ACD/ChemSketch

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ACD/ChemSketch is a chemically intelligent drawing interface that allows you to draw almost any chemical structure...

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Chemaxon Marvin
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Free • Proprietary
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16 Chemaxon Marvin alternatives
Marvin suite is a chemically intelligent desktop toolkit built to help you draw, edit, publish, render, import and export your chemical structures and as well as allowing you to convert between various chemical and graphical file formats.
- - Chemaxon Marvin is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ACD/ChemSketch.
- - Chemaxon Marvin is the most popular free alternative to ACD/ChemSketch.
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Most users think Chemaxon Marvin is a great ACD/ChemSketch alternative.
Avogadro
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Free • Open Source
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13 Avogadro alternatives
Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
- - Avogadro is the most popular Open Source alternative to ACD/ChemSketch.
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Most users think Avogadro is a great ACD/ChemSketch alternative.
BKchem
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Free • Open Source
Digital Painting Tool
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13 BKchem alternatives
BKChem is a free (as in free software :o) chemical drawing program. It was conceived and written by Beda Kosata and is currently maintained by Reinis Danne.
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2D and 3D physics
Discontinued
The last release was in 2010.

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Almost everyone thinks BKchem is a great ACD/ChemSketch alternative.
Gnome Chemistry Utils
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Free • Open Source
Linux
18 Gnome Chemistry Utils alternatives
The Gnome Chemistry Utils include six chemistry related programs:
- GChemPaint, a 2D chemical formula editor.
- a chemical calculator (computes raw formule, molar weight, mass composition and isotopic pattern).
- a molecule 3d viewer using OpenGL to display molecular models. .
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Periodic table
ChemDoodle
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8 ChemDoodle alternatives
If you are looking for a chemical sketcher or an alternative to your current chemical drawing application, there is no better choice than ChemDoodle. ChemDoodle works on all operating systems (both 32 and 64 bit), has one of the largest feature sets in the industry, has the most...
- - ChemDoodle is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to ACD/ChemSketch.
- - ChemDoodle is the most popular commercial alternative to ACD/ChemSketch.
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Most users think ChemDoodle is a great ACD/ChemSketch alternative.
JChemPaint
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Free • Open Source
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7 JChemPaint alternatives
JChemPaint is an editor and viewer for chemical structures in 2D. It is free and open source software, written in Java and so it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix systems. There is a standalone application (editor), and two varieties of applet (editor and viewer) that...
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Impact mapping
MollyCule
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Free • Open Source
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5 MollyCule alternatives
MollyCule is a completely free Open Source Chemistry visualisation program for MacOS, Linux and Windows. MollyCule is designed to be a nice, easy to use program to help ordinary people who want to explore Chemistry.
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Discontinued
Last update appears to be August 2011.
XDrawChem
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Free • Open Source
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10 XDrawChem alternatives
XDrawChem is a free software program for drawing chemical structural formulas, available for Unix and Mac OS. It is distributed under the GNU GPL. In Microsoft Windows this program is called WinDrawChem.
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Discontinued
Last release (1.10.2-1) was in January 2017.
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