3 Like ChemDoodle Good alternative? YES NO 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... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone iPad No features added Add a feature
5 Like Marvin Good alternative? YES NO Marvin is a great alternative to the subscription based ChemDraw by CambridgeSoft. It is a collection of tools for drawing, displaying and characterizing chemical... Free Mac Windows Linux Drag n drop Add a feature
6 Like ACD/ChemSketch Good alternative? YES NO ACD/ChemSketch is a chemically intelligent drawing interface that allows you to draw almost any chemical structure including organics, organometallics, polymers, and... Free Personal Windows No features added Add a feature A good alternative to ChemDraw in very limited circumstances: 1) you need it on Windows only, 2) You don't have to collaborate with ChemDraw users, 3) You don't mind looking at a confusing, dated interface. Otherwise, fine. JohnFastman • Dec 2016 Disagree Agree
1 Like JChemPaint Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
0 Like XDrawChem Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued Not updated since 2005.
0 Like ChemJuice Grande Good alternative? YES NO What's your favorite molecule? With ChemJuice, chemical structure drawing is now at your fingertips. Commercial iPhone iPad No features added Add a feature
5 Like BKchem Good alternative? YES NO 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. BKChem is... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature BKchem is an old attempt at replacing some of ChemDraw's functionality. It succeeded partially in providing some of ChemDraw's very core chemical structure drawing features. Unfortunately, BKchem has seen no new development since 2010, leaving it in limbo. JohnFastman • Dec 2016 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Very usefull software. You can paste images created with BKChem in a text processor or another open source graphical software like InkScape. Guest • May 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
1 Like MollyCule Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
0 Like Chemik Good alternative? YES NO Cool Chemistry Tool - educational app for Students. Chemist will help you in chemical tasks! Use the Periodic Table just like a computer keyboard. With the Chemist you... Freemium Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Reactions Add a feature It is not possible to draw chemical structures Guest • Dec 2016 Disagree Agree ChemDraw is specifically intended for drawing chemical structures to include in documents, presentations and beyond. Chemik is specifically not intended for that and therefore can't be a replacement. (Also, the Chemik website has an explainer Youtube video which is blocked in Denmark on copyright grounds - very useful!) JohnFastman • Dec 2016 Disagree Agree
3 Like Gnome Chemistry Utils Alternative? YES NO The Gnome Chemistry Utils include six chemistry related programs: - GChemPaint, a 2D chemical formula editor. - a chemical calculator (computes raw formule, molar... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
