ChemDraw Alternatives

ChemDraw is described as 'Communication suite for managing, reporting and presenting Chemistry research. Produce precise chemical structures with our premier chemical drawing solution' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ChemDraw for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best ChemDraw alternative is Chemaxon Marvin, which is free. Other great apps like ChemDraw are ChemDoodle, ACD/ChemSketch, MedChem Designer and JChemPaint.

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ChemDraw alternatives are mainly Vector Graphic Apps Other popular filters include Linux, Open Source, Mac and Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to ChemDraw.
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  1. Chemaxon Marvin icon
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    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.

    18 Chemaxon Marvin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  2. ChemDoodle icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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  3. ACD/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.

    16 ACD/ChemSketch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
     
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  4. "MedChem Designer 3.0 is a free chemical structure drawing program. MedChem Designer can open SMILES, SDF, MOL, CSK, and RXN file types. Up to 32 compounds can be displayed in one window. Images can be exported in SMILES, SD, MOL, CQF, bitmap, JPG, or PNG formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. JChemPaint icon
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    JChemPaint (or JCP for short here) is the editor and viewer for 2D chemical structures developed using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. KingDraw icon
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    KingDraw App is a free chemical drawing editor that allows users to sketch molecules and reactions, as well as organic chemistry objects and pathways.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. XDrawChem icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  8. Molsketch icon
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    A 2D molecular editing tool for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Its goal is to help you draw molecules quick and easily. Of course your creations can be exported afterwards in high quality in a number of vector and bitmap formats.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. What's your favorite molecule? With ChemJuice, chemical structure drawing is now at your fingertips.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. ChemCanvas icon
     1 like

    A very intuitive, new 2D chemical drawing tool (Qt-based).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Windows
    • Python
     
  11. MolView icon
     4 likes

    MolView is an intuitive, Open-Source web-application to make science and education more awesome!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. BKchem icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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