Altium Designer Alternatives

Altium Designer is described as 'Unified environment enables schematic capture, PCB layout, mixed-signal simulation, signal integrity analysis, real-time 3D editing, and ECAD-MCAD collaboration' and is a CAD software in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Altium Designer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best Altium Designer alternative is KiCad, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Altium Designer are Fritzing, Square Sketch, Autodesk EAGLE and QUCS.

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  1. Ngspice icon
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    Ngspice is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator. Its code is based on three open source software packages: Spice3f5, Cider1b1 and Xspice. Ngspice is part of gEDA project, a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.

    38 Ngspice alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Circuit Diagram is a free application for making electronic circuit diagrams and exporting them as images. Design circuits online in your browser or using the desktop application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. iCircuit icon
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    iCircuit is the easy to use electronic circuit simulator and designer - the perfect tool for students, hobbyists, and engineers.

    46 iCircuit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
    • iCircuit is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Altium Designer.

    • iCircuit is Paid and ProprietaryAltium Designer is also Paid and Proprietary
  6. 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
     
  7. 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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  8. TINA icon
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    TINA Design Suite is a powerful circuit simulation package for analyzing, designing, and real time testing of analog, digital, VHDL, MCU, SMPS, RF, communication, optoelectronic and mixed electronic circuits and their PCB layouts.

    51 TINA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  9. LochMaster icon
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    Developers tool for strip board projects. It has useful functions for designing, documenting and testing project boards. Therefore you will find functions like auto-generation of components lists, a connection test, a editable library with a large number of symbols and...

    50 LochMaster alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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