Alternatives to Avogadro
A free, open-source molecular editor and 3D viewer for chemistry teaching and research. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Avogadro
A free, open-source molecular editor and 3D viewer for chemistry teaching and research.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Avogadro.
Kalzium
A KDE periodic table and chemistry reference with element data, calculators and a molecule editor.
Kalzium is a free KDE chemistry reference for Linux with a 3D molecule editor, periodic table and calculators, but it is narrower than Avogadro for building large molecular systems.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free interactive physics, chemistry and math simulations usable directly in the browser.
Step
A KDE interactive physics simulator for building two-dimensional experiments and watching them evolve.
SageMath
A free open-source mathematics system built on NumPy, SciPy, Maxima, GAP and many other packages.
Jupyter
Browser-based notebooks, JupyterLab and the classic Notebook, that combine live code, text and visualizations.
Complete Anatomy
A 3D human anatomy platform for students, educators and clinicians, with models, courses and videos.
Veusz
A scientific plotting package that produces publication-ready PDF and SVG figures, built by combining plotting widgets.
