Jmol Alternatives

Jmol is described as 'Free, open source molecule viewer for students, educators, and researchers in chemistry and biochemistry. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Jmol for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Jmol alternative is PyMOL. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Avogadro or Calistry.org. Other great apps like Jmol are Rasmol, UCSF Chimera, VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics and ChimeraX.

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  1. PyMOL icon
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    PyMOL is a powerful and comprehensive molecular visualization product for rendering and animating 3D molecular structures.

    11 PyMOL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • PyMOL is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Jmol.

    • PyMOL is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to Jmol.

    • PyMOL is Paid and Open SourceJmol is Free and Open Source
  2. Avogadro icon
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    Avogadro is an advanced molecule editor and visualizer designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.

    22 Avogadro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Avogadro is the most popular free alternative to Jmol.

    • Avogadro is Free and Open SourceJmol is also Free and Open Source
  3. Calistry.org icon
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    Calistry is an online Chemistry Calculator. Till date Calistry contains 70+ calculators in the field of Chemistry. Everything in the website is entirely free to use. Other than calculators, Calistry also provides online molecular viewers that visualizes coordinate file of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
     
    • Calistry.org is the most popular Web-based & Android alternative to Jmol.

    • Calistry.org is Free and ProprietaryJmol is Free and Open Source
  4. Rasmol icon
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    RasMol is a computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures, such as those found in the Protein Data Bank.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. UCSF Chimera icon
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    UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. ChimeraX icon
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    UCSF ChimeraX (or simply ChimeraX) is the next-generation molecular visualization program from the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (RBVI), following UCSF Chimera. ChimeraX can be downloaded free of charge for academic, government, nonprofit, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Ghemical icon
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    Ghemical is computational chemistry package, which is licensed under GNU GPL . The ghemical authors are listed here .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. VESTA icon
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    VESTA is a 3D visualization program for structural models, volumetric data such as electron/nuclear densities, and crystal morphologies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. CellWalk icon
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    Explore detailed 3D cell biology down to the molecular level, or tour life’s molecular machines. CellWalk is a beautiful new way for students to learn biology.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • visionOS
     
    • CellWalk is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Jmol.

    • CellWalk is Freemium and ProprietaryJmol is Free and Open Source
  10. RasTop icon
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    RasTop is a molecular visualization software adapted from the program RasMol, which was initially developed by Roger Sayle. RasTop is particularly adapted for educational purposes and for the rapid analysis of macromolecules at the bench.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  11. Vipster icon
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    Vipster is a powerful and versatile tool for pre- and post-processing of periodic chemical structures. It's designed from the ground up with periodic simulations in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Vipster is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Jmol.

    • Vipster is Free and Open SourceJmol is also Free and Open Source
    • Vipster is Privacy focusedJmol is not according to our users
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