Free Electronics Workbench AlternativesTop Circuit Simulators and other similar apps like Electronics Workbench

The best free alternative to Electronics Workbench is Circuit JS, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Electronics Workbench and 12 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Electronics Workbench are QUCS, LTspice, CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod and Ktechlab.

Electronics Workbench alternatives are mainly Circuit Simulators but may also be Electronic Design Automation Tools or CAD Software. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Electronics Workbench.

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Circuit JS
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Free • Open Source
Circuit Simulator
Electronic Design Automation Tool
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Online
47 Circuit JS alternatives
This is a javascript electronic circuit simulator. When the applet starts up you will see an animated schematic of a simple LRC circuit. The green color indicates positive voltage. The gray color indicates ground. A red color indicates negative voltage.
- - Circuit JS is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Electronics Workbench.
- - Circuit JS is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Electronics Workbench.
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1. PortableCircuit JS can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Browser-based
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QUCS
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Free • Open Source
Circuit Simulator
Electronic Design Automation Tool
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36 QUCS alternatives
The Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (QUCS) is an integrated circuit simulator allowing the simulation and graphical presentation of results of large-signal, small-signal and noise behavior in circuits.
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LTspice
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Free • Proprietary
Circuit Simulator
Electronic Design Automation Tool
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35 LTspice alternatives
LTspice IV is a high performance Spice III simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer with enhancements and models for easing the simulation of switching regulators.
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Electron valves
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CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod
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Free • Open Source
Circuit Simulator
Electronic Design Automation Tool
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33 CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod alternatives
This electronic circuit simulator is highly interactive giving the feeling of playing with real components. It's very helpful for experimentation and visualization. It's a desktop version of the Circuit JS.
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CircuitJS1 Desktop Mod Features
1. PortableCircuitJS1 Desktop Mod can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Interactive Visualization
Ktechlab
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Free • Open Source
Electronic Design Automation Tool
Linux
27 Ktechlab alternatives
KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. It supports circuit simulation, program development for microcontrollers and simulating the programmed microcontroller together with its application circuit.
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DesignSpark PCB
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
38 DesignSpark PCB alternatives
The World’s Most Powerful Free Schematic and PCB Layout.
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Yenka
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
4 Yenka alternatives
Yenka is a new generation of educational modelling tools from Crocodile Clips.

Equally at home on whiteboards or when used by individual students, they let you experiment with the topics you're teaching in a safe, accurate virtual world. Their modelling products include: Yen.
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Ngspice
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Free • Open Source
Circuit Simulator
Electronic Design Automation Tool
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37 Ngspice alternatives
Ngspice is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator. Its code is based on three open source software packages: Spice3f5, Cider1b1 and Xspice. Ngspice is part of gEDA project, a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.
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Oregano
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Free • Open Source
Circuit Simulator
Electronic Design Automation Tool
Linux
34 Oregano alternatives
oregano - An electrical engineering tool for GNOME

oregano is an application for schematic capture and simulation of electronic circuits. The actual simulation is performed by Berkeley Spice, or GNUcap or the new generation ngspice which is required for simulation, but not neces.
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Discontinued
The last version is from December 2015.
Pspice
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Freemium • Proprietary
Circuit Simulator
Electronic Design Automation Tool
Windows
31 Pspice alternatives
Software for Simulating Voltage and Currents of a text file net-list of a electronics components such as Resistors, Capacitors, inductors, transisters, Diodes, Voltage and Current Sources, etc.
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Qucs-S
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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Qucs-S is a spin-off of the Qucs cross-platform circuit simulator. "S" letter indicates SPICE. The purpose of the Qucs-S subproject is to use free SPICE circuit simulation kernels with the Qucs GUI.
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QuickCopper
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Free • Proprietary
Circuit Simulator
CAD Software
Android
36 QuickCopper alternatives
Powerful and simple to use electronic schematics editor.
- - QuickCopper is the most popular Android alternative to Electronics Workbench.
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