Virtual Breadboard AlternativesCircuit Simulators and other similar apps like Virtual Breadboard

Apps similar to Virtual Breadboard include Circuit JS, which is free and open source. Other options are QUCS, SimulIDE, Qucs-S and gEDA Project. You're spoiled for choice with Circuit Simulators like Virtual Breadboard: we list more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and iPad.

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  1. 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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    • Mac
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    • Online
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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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    • Mac
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  3. SimulIDE icon
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    SimulIDE is a simple real time electronic circuit simulator. It's intended for general purpose electronics and microcontroller simulation, supporting PIC and AVR. PIC simulation is provided by gpsim and avr simulation by simavr.

    17 SimulIDE alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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    • Mac
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  4. 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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  5. gEDA Project icon
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    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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. 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.

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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
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Xcos icon
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    Xcos is a graphical editor to design hybrid dynamical systems models. Models can be designed, loaded, saved, compiled and simulated.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. OpenModelica icon
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    OpenModelica – A Free Modelica Environment! OpenModelica is an open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment intended for industrial and academic usage. Its long-term development is supported by a non-profit organization – the Open Source Modelica Consortium (OS.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. LochMaster icon
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    Developers tool for strip board projects. It has useful functions for designing, documenting and testing project boards. Therefore you will find functions like auto-generation of components lists, a connection test, a editable library with a large number of symbols and...

    50 LochMaster alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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