The Best 13 ACD/ChemSketch Alternatives

  • Avogadro

    Avogadro is a free, fantastically easy to use molecule editor. Because this editor is cross platform and light on computer resources, you know you can run it when and where you need it.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Marvin

    Marvin is a great alternative to the subscription based ChemDraw by CambridgeSoft. It is a collection of tools for drawing, displaying and characterizing chemical structures, substructures and reactions.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • BKchem

    BKChem is a free (as in free software :o) chemical drawing program. It was conceived and written by Beda Kosata and is currently maintained by Reinis Danne. BKChem is written in Python, an interpreted and very nice programming language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • ChemDraw

    Communicate with the natural language of chemical structures, biological pathways, and models

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • ChemDoodle

    If you are looking for a chemical sketcher or an alternative to your current chemical drawing application, there is no better choice than ChemDoodle. ChemDoodle works on...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • Gnome Chemistry Utils

    The Gnome Chemistry Utils include six chemistry related programs: - GChemPaint, a 2D chemical formula editor. - a chemical calculator (computes raw formule, molar...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • JChemPaint

    JChemPaint is an editor and viewer for chemical structures in 2D. It is free and open source software, written in Java and so it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • MollyCule

    MollyCule is a completely free Open Source Chemistry visualisation program for MacOS, Linux and Windows. MollyCule is designed to be a nice, easy to use program to help...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • MedChem Designer

    Free chemical structure drawing program for Windows. Will also run in Linux using WINE. Produced by SimulationsPlus.

    Free Windows

  • Chemik

    Cool Chemistry Tool - educational app for Students. Chemist will help you in chemical tasks! Use the Periodic Table just like a computer keyboard. With the Chemist you...

    Freemium Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • ChemJuice Grande

    What's your favorite molecule? With ChemJuice, chemical structure drawing is now at your fingertips.

    Commercial iPhone iPad

  • XDrawChem

    XDrawChem is a free software program for drawing chemical structural formulas, available for Unix and Mac OS. It is distributed under the GNU GPL. In Microsoft Windows...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux