LTspice AlternativesCircuit Simulators & Electronic Design Automation Tools like LTspice

Apps similar to LTspice include KiCad, which is free and open source. Other options are QUCS, Pspice, Circuit JS and Proteus PCB design. There's no shortage of Circuit Simulators like LTspice, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Android.

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  1. KiCad icon
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    KiCad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) - designing schematics of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards (PCB). KiCad is developed by Jean-Pierre Charras. And features an integrated environment between schematic capture, bill of...

    62 KiCad alternatives

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    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Docker
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  2. QUCS icon
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    The Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (QUCS) is an integrated circuit simulator allowing the simulation and graphical presentation of results of large-signal, small-signal and noise behavior in circuits.

    37 QUCS alternatives

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  3. Pspice icon
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    Software for Simulating Voltage and Currents of a text file net-list of a electronics components such as Resistors, Capacitors, inductors, transisters, Diodes, Voltage and Current Sources, etc.

    34 Pspice alternatives

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  4. Circuit JS icon
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    This is a javascript electronic circuit simulator. When the applet starts up you will see an animated schematic of a simple LRC circuit. The green color indicates positive voltage. The gray color indicates ground. A red color indicates negative voltage.

    50 Circuit JS alternatives

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    • Online
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  5. 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.

    51 Proteus PCB design alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  6. Altium Designer icon
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    Features a unified workflow for schematic capture, PCB layout, mixed analog/digital simulation, signal integrity analysis, real-time 3D editing, ECAD-MCAD collaboration, component libraries, collaborative design tools, BOM generation, routing, and manufacturing outputs.

    51 Altium Designer alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
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  7. Ngspice icon
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    Ngspice is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator. Its code is based on three open source software packages: Spice3f5, Cider1b1 and Xspice. Ngspice is part of gEDA project, a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  8. Simetrix icon
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    SIMetrix/SIMPLIS enables engineers to design and simulate switching power electronics systems

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. Qucs-S icon
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    Qucs-S is a spin-off of the Qucs cross-platform circuit simulator. "S" letter indicates SPICE. The purpose of the Qucs-S subproject is to use free SPICE circuit simulation kernels with the Qucs GUI.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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