KiCad AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Circuit Simulators

The best Circuit Simulator alternative to KiCad is Fritzing. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Velxio or LibrePCB. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to KiCad and 19 are Circuit Simulators so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Circuit Simulator alternatives to KiCad are Proteus PCB design, EasyEDA, PADS PCB Design and eSim.

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  1. Fritzing icon
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    Open-source initiative aiding designers, artists, and researchers in transforming prototypes to actual products, documenting circuits, sharing, teaching, and PCB manufacturing.

    59 Fritzing alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • AppImageHub
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
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  2. Velxio icon
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    Emulate Arduino, ESP32 & Raspberry Pi. in your browser. Write code, compile, and run on 19 real boards — Arduino Uno, ESP32, ESP32-C3, Raspberry Pi Pico, Raspberry Pi 3, and more. No hardware, no cloud, no limits.

    5 Velxio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. LibrePCB icon
     23 likes

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  4. Proteus PCB design combines the schematic capture and ARES PCB layout programs to provide a powerful, integrated and easy to use suite of tools for professional PCB Design.

    50 Proteus PCB design alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. EasyEDA icon
     20 likes

    Schematic capture, Ngspice based simulation, PCB layout, custom PCB manufacturing, for electronic engineers, educators, students and hobbyists.

    56 EasyEDA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. The industry-leading, high-productivity, PCB-centric design solution for independent engineers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. eSim icon
     4 likes

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

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. NI Circuit Design Suite software improves the PCB design process by integrating capture, simulation, and layout into a single toolchain with NI Multisim and Ultiboard software.

    46 NI Circuit Design Suite Power Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. TINA icon
     9 likes

    TINA Design Suite is a powerful circuit simulation package for analyzing, designing, and real time testing of analog, digital, VHDL, MCU, SMPS, RF, communication, optoelectronic and mixed electronic circuits and their PCB layouts.

    52 TINA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • US flagUnited States
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  10. gEDA Project icon
     26 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11. tscircuit icon
     8 likes

    tscircuit is a framework for designing real electronics with Typescript and React. Your tscircuit code compiles into real-time previews for PCBs, schematics, 3D models and can be exported to fabrication files for manufacturing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. CircuitLab icon
     8 likes

    Sketch, simulate, and share your circuits, entirely in your browser -- no install required. Easy schematic capture and powerful SPICE-like, mixed-mode circuit simulation helps EE students, electronics hobbyists, and electrical engineers design faster.

    28 CircuitLab alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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