There are many things similar to Fritzing in this.ĬircuitMaker from Altium posting that tells that Altium recently announced CircuitMaker, their entry into the free/low-cost PCB design tool market. Anything you design sits on the cloud: you can collaborate with others and even embed your circuit (with functioning simulation). 123D is web-based software, and using it requires account creation on the circuits.io website. Now Autodesk has followed with 123D Circuits: Autodesk’s free design tool. Autodesk started with 123D modeling tool that is suitable for designing models for 3D printing. Anyone familiar with Autodesk knows they have a bit of a habit of taking over the world. I has browser based schematic and board layout. The premise is simple: most electronic projects are just electronic Lego: You connect your microcontroller to a sensor, add in a battery, throw in a few caps and resistors for good measure, and hopefully everything will work.Ĭircuits.io was promising looking free circuit editor in your browser introduced two years ago.

HackEDA is an interesting looking new on-line electronics design tool introduced last year. Here are also some new on-line focused alternatives:ĬircuitBee is an online platform that promises to allow you to share live versions of your circuit schematics on your websites, blogs or forums that I covered three years ago.ĭigi-Key Corporation and Aspen Labs launched two years ago one-of-a-kind online ‘Scheme-it’ tool for drawing schematics. From those alternatives EAGLE feels the best for me. It is adwareįrom has done some playing with KiCad and gEDA (years ago) but I felt that they were lacking something in easy to use (some improvement needed here I think). DesignSpark PCB is not open-source, but looks very capable given the cost ($0).EAGLE is a commercial package with a free version that will handle small double-sided boards.KiCad seems the best known open-source EDA system.I some time ago mentioned some software examples in Top Free Electronics Design Tools posting and you can find a long comparison list at Wikipedia Comparison of EDA software page.įor the circuit design I would say that this list from Mostly free engineering software article is a good list of free/cheap software I can agree: What is the best free or cheap electronics design software? It is hard to say in this ever changing field.

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