Free LTspice AlternativesCircuit Simulators & Electronic Design Automation Tools like LTspice

The best free alternative to LTspice is KiCad, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to LTspice and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to LTspice are QUCS, Pspice, Circuit JS and Ngspice.

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LTspice alternatives are mainly Circuit Simulators, but if you're looking for Electronic Design Automation Tools or Circuit Designers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Free, Android, iPad, iPhone and Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to LTspice.
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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...

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    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
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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.

    49 Circuit JS alternatives

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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

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    • Free
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  6. 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.

    32 Qucs-S alternatives

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    • Flathub
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  7. VoltSim icon
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    VoltSim is an interactive realtime circuit simulator. It has digital and analog components and even Integrated Circuits. It is the perfect companion to students, hobbyists, and engineers.

    10 VoltSim alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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    • Android
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  8. MacSpice icon
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    Simulates and analyses electronic circuits that can range in complexity from a single resistor to an integrated circuit comprising tens-of-thousands of devices.

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    • Mac
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  9. ECSP icon
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    A fast, interactive, browser-based analogue circuits and power system simulator for engineers, lecturers and students. It works entirely within a web browser without installing desktop software.

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    Interactive single phase power flow analysis.
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  10. 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.

    48 OpenModelica alternatives

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  11. Everycircuit icon
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    Design and simulate electronic circuits! All joking aside, this time you will understand how electronic circuits work. "I stumbled upon some serious gold" - GeekBeat.tv "A fully realized circuit simulator" - EDA360 Insider Build any circuit, tap play button, a.

    13 Everycircuit alternatives

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  12. 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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