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AvogadroCrystalMaker
Free

Free and open source.

 Paid

Commercial software sold under several licence types through the developer's shop.

Windows, macOS, Linux Windows, macOS
  • Handles systems of thousands of atoms
  • Force fields quickly clean up sketched structures
  • Interactive, animated visualization of crystal and molecular structures
  • Energy modelling, phonons and IR spectra in version 11
  • Assumes some chemistry background
  • Not a full simulation package on its own
  • Paid, specialist scientific software
  • Only for macOS and Windows
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Checked September 23, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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