Open Source Fritzing AlternativesTop Circuit Simulators & Electronic Design Automation Tools like Fritzing

The best open source alternative to Fritzing is KiCad. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Fritzing and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Fritzing are Wokwi Arduino Simulator, LibrePCB, gEDA Project and pcb-rnd.

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Fritzing is a very-very handy a tool, very complex but very simple to use, to design circuits, as well as so called "layouts", be it PCB or stripboard or breadboard.

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Fritzing alternatives page was last updated Feb 8, 2024
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  1. KiCad icon
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    KiCad

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    KiCad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) - designing schematics of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards (PCB). KiCad is developed by Jean-Pierre Charras. And features an integrated environment between schematic capture, bill of...

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    PcbNew - Editor

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    PcbNew - 3D Viewer
    Eeschema - Component Options
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    Eeschema - Footprint Picker

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Multiplatform
    2.  3D Renderer
    3.  Portable
    4.  Wast library
    5.  3d sketching
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    • Almost everyone thinks KiCad is a great Fritzing alternative.

    • KiCad is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Fritzing.

    • KiCad is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Fritzing.

    • KiCad is Free and Open SourceFritzing is Paid and Open Source
    • KiCad is LightweightFritzing is not according to our users
  2. Wokwi Arduino Simulator icon
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    Wokwi Arduino Simulator

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    A web-app you can use to simulate circuits as well as run Arduino sketches right in the browser, using the open-source AVR8js platform.

    5 Wokwi Arduino Simulator alternatives
    Wokwi Arduino Simulator screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet

    Wokwi Arduino Simulator Features

    1.  Arduino
    2.  Drag and Drop
    3.  Browser-based
    Wokwi Arduino Simulator screenshot 1
    Supports several display
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    • Wokwi Arduino Simulator is the most popular Android, iPhone & Android Tablet alternative to Fritzing.

    • Wokwi Arduino Simulator is Free and Open SourceFritzing is Paid and Open Source
  4. LibrePCB icon
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    LibrePCB

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    LibrePCB is a free EDA software to develop printed circuit boards. It’s currently under heavy development to bring out first stable releases as soon as possible.

    51 LibrePCB alternatives
    LibrePCB screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  3d sketching
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  5. gEDA Project icon
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    gEDA Project

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    The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL'd suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.

    56 gEDA Project alternatives
    gschem

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    pcb
    gerbv
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    gschem running on Mac OSX
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  6. pcb-rnd icon
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    pcb-rnd

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    pcb-rnd is a free/open source, flexible, modular Printed Circuit Board editor for design of professional and hobby boards. It has a strong UNIX mind set.

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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  7. Horizon EDA icon
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    Horizon EDA

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    Horizon is a free EDA package. Contribute to carrotIndustries/horizon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    13 Horizon EDA alternatives
    Horizon EDA screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Horizon EDA Features

    1.  Schema editor
    2.  PCB editor
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  9. Circuit Diagram icon
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    Circuit Diagram

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    Circuit Diagram is a free application for making electronic circuit diagrams and exporting them as images. Design circuits online in your browser or using the desktop application.

    35 Circuit Diagram alternatives
    Circuit Diagram screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    Circuit Diagram iconFritzing Icon

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  10. VeeCAD icon
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    VeeCAD

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    VeeCAD takes a schematic generated netlist and assists you to build a layout - on strip (Veroboard), matrix, donut, tripad, Atarado Smart, and other prototyping boards.

    8 VeeCAD alternatives
    VeeCAD screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    VeeCAD Features

    1.  Layout
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  11. TinyCAD icon
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    TinyCAD

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    TinyCAD is an open source schematic capture program for MS Windows. Use TinyCAD to produce professional circuit diagrams and export net list information to PCB applications.

    33 TinyCAD alternatives
    screenshot of TinyCAD in operation

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    TinyCAD iconFritzing Icon

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  12. eSim icon
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    eSim

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    eSim (previously known as Oscad / FreeEDA) is an open source EDA tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design.

    35 eSim alternatives
    eSim main window provides frontend to create projects for drawing schematic,PCB layout and doing circuit simulation.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    eSim creates a circuit schematic using eeschema editor of Kicad. It allows the creation and modification of components and symbol libraries.
    eSim provides the feature to create PCB layout of circuit schematic using cvpcb package of Kicad. It also supports multiple hierarchical layers of printed circuit design.
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    Apart from Ngspice plot eSim provides an interactive plotting frontend where user can select nodes or branch and plot voltage or current respectively.
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  13. PCB Elegance icon
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    PCB Elegance

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    PCB Elegance is a suite of circuit board design tools for Windows. Including schematic capture, board layout, and manufacturing file generation. First released in 1998, it was proprietary software until 2012, when it was released as open source software under the GPL.

    23 PCB Elegance alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. atopile icon
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    atopile

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    atopile is a language and toolchain to describe electronic circuit boards with code. By replacing the point and click schematic interface with code, we introduce software development workflows like reuse, validation and automation to the world of electronics.

    53 atopile alternatives
    atopile screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    • Python
    atopile iconFritzing Icon

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