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. VBB4Arduino icon
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    Virtual Breadboard for Arduino is a learning 'app' version of VBB designed to help you take the first steps in the exciting world of physical computing with the Arduino microcontroller and ‘Breadboard’ based electronic circuit models.

    47 VBB4Arduino alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Flux.ai icon
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    Flux is where engineers shape the future of hardware, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your projects, review schematics like a pro, track issues and features, power your workflows, and secure work before you commit it.

    12 Flux.ai alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. CR-8000 icon
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    CR-8000 is a comprehensive PCB design suite that enables the development of a product from concept to manufacturing. CR-8000’s fully integrated design flow ranges from initial system planning, where critical design decisions are made about design partitioning, component...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. VUTRAX icon
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    Professional electronics schematic and PCB (Printed circuit board) design package

    48 VUTRAX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Livewire icon
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    Livewire is a sophisticated software package for designing and simulating electronic circuits.

    41 Livewire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. PCB Wizard icon
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    PCB Wizard 3 is a powerful package for designing single-sided and double-sided PCBs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Circuit Wizard is a revolutionary new system that combines circuit design, PCB design, simulation and CAD/CAM in one complete package.

    46 Circuit Wizard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. CircuitMaker icon
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    CircuitMaker is the best free PCB design software by Altium for Open Source Hardware Designers, Hackers, Makers, Students and Hobbyists. From the about page of the website:

    37 CircuitMaker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    The main home page for the Robot Room Copper Connection PCB editing software. The Copper Connection application lets you design circuit boards.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Sprint-Layout icon
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    With Sprint-Layout you can design your PCB’s quick and easy. There is no unnecessary “ballast” which makes it difficult to keep the overview or which makes the usage almost impossible. Because of the logical and understandable strucure of Sprint-Layout the usage is very easy to...

    33 Sprint-Layout alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    PCB Design Software, Schematic Capture Software and automatic 3D model generation. The PCB layout generates 3D models automatically

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Low cost, powerful program

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    • AutoTRAX DEX is Paid and ProprietaryAltium Designer is also Paid and Proprietary
  12. FluidDraw icon
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    Now even better: FluidDraw stands for fast and easy standardised documentation of your machines or systems. With the new FluidDraw P6, you can create pneumatic and electric circuit diagrams even more reliably and efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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