Fritzing

Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product. We are...

• Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 0.9.3b, released in June 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

KiCad

KiCad is an open source software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) - designing schematics of electronic circuits and printed circuit boards (PCB). KiCad is...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Circuit Simulator

Animated electronic circuit simulator using ideal components to visualize voltage and current.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web

Ktechlab

KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. It supports circuit simulation, program development for microcontrollers and simulating the programmed...

Free Open Source Linux

QUCS

The Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (QUCS) is an integrated circuit simulator allowing the simulation and graphical presentation of results of large-signal...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

LTspice

LTspice IV is a high performance Spice III simulator, schematic capture and waveform viewer with enhancements and models for easing the simulation of switching...

Free Mac Windows

LibrePCB

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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Proteus PCB design

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...

Commercial Windows

gEDA Project

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...

Free Open Source Linux

Autodesk Circuits

Autodesk Circuits empowers you to bring your ideas to life with free, easy to use online tools.

• Discontinued No longer, free download of eagle is available though as a link!

Freemium Web

OrCAD (All Products)

The Cadence OrCAD product line provides affordable, high-performance PCB design tools that boost productivity for smaller design teams and individual PCB designers.

Commercial Windows

Autodesk EAGLE

Autodesk EAGLE is an electronic design automation (EDA) software. Enabling printed circuit board (PCB) designers to seamlessly connect schematic diagrams, component...

Free Personal $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

NI Circuit Design Suite Power Pro

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...

Commercial Windows

DesignSpark PCB

The World’s Most Powerful Free Schematic and PCB Layout

Free Windows

Upverter

We build the pickaxes of hardware engineering. Ideation tools, schematic capture, PCB layout, design hosting, parts library management, and affordable prototyping.

Commercial Web