Altium Designer Alternatives

Altium Designer is described as 'Unified environment enables schematic capture, PCB layout, mixed-signal simulation, signal integrity analysis, real-time 3D editing, and ECAD-MCAD collaboration' and is a CAD software in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Altium Designer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best Altium Designer alternative is KiCad, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Altium Designer are Fritzing, Square Sketch, Autodesk EAGLE and QUCS.

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  1. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  2. 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

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    • Windows
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  3. Coulomb icon
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    Coulomb is a simple and elegant circuit simulator written using Java, Gtk4 and libadwaita.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. Horizon EDA icon
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    Horizon is a free EDA package. Contribute to carrotIndustries/horizon development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. 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.

    40 Ngspice alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Circuit Diagram is a free application for making electronic circuit diagrams and exporting them as images. Design circuits online in your browser or using the desktop application.

    36 Circuit Diagram alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. iCircuit icon
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    iCircuit is the easy to use electronic circuit simulator and designer - the perfect tool for students, hobbyists, and engineers.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  9. Upverter icon
     13 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. TINA icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
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  11. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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