KiCad Alternatives

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 creating this software in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document their Arduino and other electronic-based prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and to create a pcb layout for manufacturing.

Features:

• Education
• Prototyping

Autodesk EAGLE

* Quickly test your ideas and validate circuit performance with a complete suite of SPICE simulation methods. * Drag-and-drop reusable design blocks between your projects, complete with synchronized schematic and PCB circuitry. * Precisely arrange and order PCB design objects with a complete set of alignment tools. * Route complex PCB layouts and maneuver around your design to easily get your trace to its destination. * Don’t rely on luck to fit your board in its enclosure.

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 circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.

Proteus PCB design

Proteus PCB design combines the ISIS schematic capture and ARES PCB layout programs to provide a powerful, integrated and easy to use suite of tools for professional PCB Design.. All Proteus PCB design products include an integrated shape based autorouter and a basic SPICE simulation capability as standard.

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 software. Multisim easily captures schematics that are immediately ready to be simulated.

Upverter

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

LibrePCB

Cross-platform (Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) All-in-one (project management, library/schematic/board editors) Intuitive, modern and easy-to-use graphical user interface Very powerful library design with some innovative concepts Human-readable file formats Open Source (GNU GPLv3)

DesignSpark PCB

The World’s Most Powerful Free Schematic and PCB Layout

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.

iCircuit

Its advanced simulation engine can handle both analog and digital circuits and features realtime always-on analysis. It is the perfect companion to students, hobbyists, and engineers. You use it as you would any CAD program: you add elements, connect them together, and set their properties. But iCircuit is unlike other CAD programs because it is always simulating. It's just like working with the real circuit. You do not stop to take a measurement or spend a lot of time configuring reports.

Features:

• Price alerts
• Simulation