Fritzing Alternatives

Fritzing is described as 'Open-source tool supporting designers in prototyping, documenting circuits, sharing, and creating PCB layouts, empowering artists, researchers, and hobbyists' and is a very popular circuit simulator in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Fritzing for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best Fritzing alternative is KiCad, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Fritzing are Autodesk EAGLE, Square Sketch, LibrePCB and Proteus PCB design.

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Fritzing alternatives are mainly Circuit Simulators, but if you're looking for Electronic Design Automation Tools or Circuit Designers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source, Android, Online, Mac, Circuit Simulation and Online + Circuit Simulation. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Fritzing.
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  1. Coulomb icon
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    Coulomb is a simple and elegant circuit simulator written using Java, Gtk4 and libadwaita.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. VUTRAX icon
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    Professional electronics schematic and PCB (Printed circuit board) design package

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Horizon EDA icon
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    Horizon is a free EDA package. Contribute to carrotIndustries/horizon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. CircuitMaker icon
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    CircuitMaker is the best free PCB design software by Altium for Open Source Hardware Designers, Hackers, Makers, Students and Hobbyists. From the about page of the website:

    37 CircuitMaker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Osmond PCB icon
     1 like

    Design printed circuit boards software.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. iCircuit icon
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    iCircuit is the easy to use electronic circuit simulator and designer - the perfect tool for students, hobbyists, and engineers.

    46 iCircuit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
     
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    it is copleted and integrated

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    • Most users think iCircuit is a great Fritzing alternative.

    • iCircuit is the most popular iPad alternative to Fritzing.

    • iCircuit is Paid and ProprietaryFritzing is Paid and Open Source
  7. TinyCAD icon
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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Printed Circuit Board Design Made Easy: Professional-Grade PCB Design Software with Free Live Technical Support. PCB Artist Includes Features Such as Multi-Page Schematics and Netlist Import.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. pcb-rnd icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  11. PCB Elegance icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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