Molsketch Alternatives

Molsketch is described as 'A 2D molecular editing tool for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Its goal is to help you draw molecules quick and easily. Of course your creations can be exported afterwards in high quality in a number of vector and bitmap formats' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Molsketch for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best Molsketch alternative is ChemistryLab, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Molsketch are Chemaxon Marvin, JChemPaint, ChemDraw and ChemCanvas.

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  1. ChemistryLab icon

    ChemistryLab

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    ChemistryLab is a chemical laboratory simulation application designed for the Android platform. It serves as a derivative version of the original ChemistryLab, developed by Tran Thanh Tùng, maintaining the same functionality while introducing modifications to the user...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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    • ChemistryLab is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Molsketch.

    • ChemistryLab is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Molsketch.

    • ChemistryLab is Free and Open SourceMolsketch is also Free and Open Source
  2. Chemaxon Marvin icon

    Chemaxon Marvin

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    Marvin suite is a chemically intelligent desktop toolkit built to help you draw, edit, publish, render, import and export your chemical structures and as well as allowing you to convert between various chemical and graphical file formats.

    18 Chemaxon Marvin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    The co-factor NAD in 2D format in Marvin.
     

    • Chemaxon Marvin is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Molsketch.

    • Chemaxon Marvin is Free and ProprietaryMolsketch is Free and Open Source
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    JChemPaint

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    JChemPaint (or JCP for short here) is the editor and viewer for 2D chemical structures developed using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  5. ChemDraw icon

    ChemDraw

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    ChemDraw is a communication suite for managing, reporting and presenting Chemistry research. Produce precise chemical structures with our premier chemical drawing solution.

    17 ChemDraw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    ChemDraw screenshot 1
     

    • ChemDraw is the most popular commercial alternative to Molsketch.

    • ChemDraw is Paid and ProprietaryMolsketch is Free and Open Source
  6. ChemCanvas icon

    ChemCanvas

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    A very intuitive, new 2D chemical drawing tool (Qt-based).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Windows
    • Python
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  7. MolView icon

    MolView

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    MolView is an intuitive, Open-Source web-application to make science and education more awesome!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     

    • MolView is the most popular Web-based alternative to Molsketch.

    • MolView is Freemium and ProprietaryMolsketch is Free and Open Source
  9. Gnome Chemistry Utils icon

    Gnome Chemistry Utils

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    The Gnome Chemistry Utils include six chemistry related programs:

    • GChemPaint, a 2D chemical formula editor.
    • a chemical calculator (computes raw formule, molar weight, mass composition and isotopic pattern).
    • a molecule 3d viewer using OpenGL to display molecular models. .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. BKchem icon

    BKchem

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    BKChem is a free (as in free software :o) chemical drawing program. It was conceived and written by Beda Kosata and is currently maintained by Reinis Danne.

    15 BKchem alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    BKchem screenshot 1
     
  11. MollyCule icon

    MollyCule

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    MollyCule is a completely free Open Source Chemistry visualisation program for MacOS, Linux and Windows. MollyCule is designed to be a nice, easy to use program to help ordinary people who want to explore Chemistry.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Example visualisation of ATP.
     
  12. XDrawChem icon

    XDrawChem

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    XDrawChem is a free software program for drawing chemical structural formulas, available for Unix and Mac OS. It is distributed under the GNU GPL. In Microsoft Windows this program is called WinDrawChem.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  13. ChemApp icon

    ChemApp

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    ChemApp is a powerful tool that will help you to solve everything from the simplest to the most complex of chemistry problems - from balancing chemical reactions and finding molar masses to solving reaction stoichiometry problems.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
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