Alternatives to ChemDraw for Linux with any license

Marvin

Marvin is a great alternative to the subscription based ChemDraw by CambridgeSoft. It is a collection of tools for drawing, displaying and characterizing chemical...

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ChemDoodle

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...

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- 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). JohnFastman • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
XDrawChem

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...

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- Discontinued Not updated since 2005.
BKchem

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...

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- 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 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 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 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
JChemPaint

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...

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MollyCule

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...

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Gnome Chemistry Utils

The Gnome Chemistry Utils include six chemistry related programs: - GChemPaint, a 2D chemical formula editor. - a chemical calculator (computes raw formule, molar...

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