Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
United States




One of the most popular alternatives to KiCad is Fritzing, which is open source but paid. LibrePCB and EasyEDA are free. Other popular alternatives are Velxio, Autodesk EAGLE, Altium Designer and Square Sketch. There's no shortage of Circuit Simulators like KiCad, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.




VisCircuit is a note-taking tool that contains an easy circuit diagram drawer and a beautiful note editor, designed to help you learn about electronics and circuits more easily.


Circuit Wizard is a revolutionary new system that combines circuit design, PCB design, simulation and CAD/CAM in one complete package.

Livewire is a sophisticated software package for designing and simulating electronic circuits.

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.




The main home page for the Robot Room Copper Connection PCB editing software. The Copper Connection application lets you design circuit boards.

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.



Integrated schematic editor and simulator. Dynamic analysis updates waveforms and curves as you edit Native digital simulator Worst Case analysis to find the statistical and extreme limits of performance Smoke Analysis to assess how close the circuit is to violating maximum opera.










OmniGlyph (CIRCAD) is a powerful and easy-to-use PCB Design package. Included within one clean and simple program are ample tools for all aspects of circuit design and manufacturing.

With Sprint-Layout you can design your PCB’s quick and easy. There is no unnecessary “ballast” which makes it difficult to keep the overview or which makes the usage almost impossible. Because of the logical and understandable strucure of Sprint-Layout the usage is very easy to...
