Alternatives to Lepton EDA
An open-source electronic design automation suite for schematic capture and netlisting, forked from gEDA. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Lepton EDA
An open-source electronic design automation suite for schematic capture and netlisting, forked from gEDA.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Lepton EDA.
KiCad
A full electronics design suite: draw the schematic, lay out the board, view it in 3D, send it to a fab.
KiCad is free and open source on Windows, macOS and Linux, adding PCB layout, 3D viewing and Gerber export to schematic capture.
LibrePCB
A free, open-source electronics design suite for drawing schematics and laying out printed circuit boards.
LibrePCB is free and open source with packaged builds for Windows, Linux and macOS, covering both schematics and board layout.
Horizon EDA
Design circuit boards from schematics through manufacturing files.
Horizon EDA is free and open source for Windows and Linux, taking designs from schematic through PCB routing to manufacturing files.
EasyEDA
Design electronic schematics and printed circuit boards in a browser.
EasyEDA moves schematic and PCB design into a browser on a freemium, closed-source model, replacing Lepton's command-line friendly workflow.
DesignSpark PCB
Schematic capture and printed circuit board layout software with a free plan and paid tiers.
DesignSpark PCB is closed-source freemium Windows software combining schematic capture and PCB layout, with a free plan that has no schematic size limit.
DipTrace
Schematic capture and PCB layout software with constraint-driven design and interactive push-and-shove routing.
DipTrace is commercial Windows software combining schematic capture and PCB layout, sold under a perpetual licence.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Qucs-S
An open-source circuit simulator interface that drives SPICE engines such as Ngspice.
ngspice
An open-source SPICE simulator for analog, digital and mixed-signal electronic circuits described as netlists.
LTspice
A free SPICE circuit simulator with schematic capture and a waveform viewer, from Analog Devices.
Gerbv
An open-source viewer for Gerber RS-274X, Excellon drill and pick-and-place PCB files.
Fritzing
Document electronics projects with breadboard, schematic and PCB views.
