ChemDraw Alternatives for Linux

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   Chemaxon Marvin

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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.

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   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•Sep 7, 2020

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   Simple structures are needed.

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   • Chemaxon Marvin is Free and ProprietaryChemDraw is Paid and Proprietary
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   ChemDoodle

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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

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • iPhone
   • iPad

   

   

   

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   John Fastman

   Positive comment•Dec 20, 2016

   2

   Closest thing to ChemDraw functionality and, unlike ChemDraw, it works natively on Linux. Sadly, the author has chosen a frustrating atom-first drawing mechanic which is hugely counterintuitive. But if you can learn to accept it, ChemDoodle is a respectable ChemDraw alternative (unless you need to draw pi complexes).

   Guest

   Positive comment•Dec 9, 2019

   0

   Functionally equivalent and very similar in features. Very similar layout makes it very easy for chemists to switch

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   • ChemDoodle is Paid and ProprietaryChemDraw is also Paid and Proprietary
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   JChemPaint

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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

   

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   XDrawChem

    1 like

   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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   Positive comment•Oct 2, 2016

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   More simply for use in class

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   • XDrawChem is Free and Open SourceChemDraw is Paid and Proprietary
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   Molsketch

    1 like

   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

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   ChemCanvas

    1 like

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • India

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Flathub
   • Flatpak
   • Raspberry Pi
   • Windows
   • Python

   

   

   

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   BKchem

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   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

   • Digital Painting

   Origin

   • Czechia
   • EU

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   John Fastman

   Negative comment•Dec 27, 2016

   3

   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.

   Guest

   Positive comment•May 9, 2016

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   Very usefull software. You can paste images created with BKChem in a text processor or another open source graphical software like InkScape.

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   • BKchem is Free and Open SourceChemDraw is Paid and Proprietary
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    Gnome Chemistry Utils

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    The Gnome Chemistry Utils include six chemistry related programs:

    • GChemPaint, a 2D chemical formula editor.
    • a chemical calculator (computes raw formule, molar weight, mass composition and isotopic pattern).
    • a molecule 3d viewer using OpenGL to display molecular models. .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    

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    MollyCule

     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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