BKchem Alternatives
BKchem is described as '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' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to BKchem for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, iPad and iPhone. The best alternative is Chemaxon Marvin, which is free. Other great apps like BKchem are Avogadro, Gnome Chemistry Utils, JChemPaint and MollyCule.
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.
Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
The Gnome Chemistry Utils include six chemistry related programs:.
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.
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.
Discontinued
Last update appears to be August 2011.
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.
Discontinued
Last release (1.10.2-1) was in January 2017.
No screenshots yetACD/ChemSketch is a chemically intelligent drawing interface that allows you to draw almost any chemical structure including organics, organometallics, polymers, and Markush structures. Use it to produce professional looking structures and diagrams for reports and publications.
Communicate with the natural language of chemical structures, biological pathways, and models
No screenshots yetIf you are looking for a chemical sketcher or an alternative to your current chemical drawing application, there is no better choice than ChemDoodle.
What's your favorite molecule? With ChemJuice, chemical structure drawing is now at your fingertips.
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