KiCad Alternatives

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.

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  1. ExpressPCB icon
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    Free PCB layout software - Low cost circuit boards - Top quality PCB manufacturing

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. VisCircuit icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  3. Circuit Wizard is a revolutionary new system that combines circuit design, PCB design, simulation and CAD/CAM in one complete package.

    46 Circuit Wizard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Livewire icon
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    Livewire is a sophisticated software package for designing and simulating electronic circuits.

    41 Livewire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. 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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 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
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  8. Micro-Cap icon
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    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.

    48 Micro-Cap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Coulomb icon
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    Coulomb is a simple and elegant circuit simulator written using Java, Gtk4 and libadwaita.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  10. myNetPCB icon
     3 likes

    Circuit schematic and PCB design tool for Win/Linux/Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. OmniGlyph icon
     Like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Sprint-Layout icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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